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David, at last, here it is for the biographies:

Someday, I will do the albums... 

Corde Oblique - Cries and Whispers: https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=88333 - No track times.

https://cordeoblique.bandcamp.com/album/cries-and-whispers.

1. The Nightingale And The Rose (3:40) 

2. Leaver (4:10) 

3. John Ruskin (6:33) 

4. The Father Child (4:01) 

5. A Step To Lose The Balance (4:40) 

6. Christmas Carol (4:24) 

7. Bruegel's Dance (3:10) 

8. Eleusa Consumpta (4:58) 

9. Souvenirs D'un Autre Monde (7:14) 

10. Tango Di Gaeta (5:52) 

11. Selfish Giant (4:48) 

12. Gnossienne No. 1 (3:33) 

Total Time 57:03 

https://www.discogs.com/release/3733489-Diabolus-Diabolus.

There is also no band photo on the main page, so I pieced one together from an image of the album's back cover on this Rockers.de page, where a vinyl copy of the second pressing from 1975 is being sold:

There is some confusion about the earliest release year: RYM says 1972, but Discogs and MusicBrainz say 1971, as do most other sites I looked at. It seems that Bellaphon released the album in 1971 without any indication that they were responsible (the logo was hidden under the packaging), and then released it again in 1972 with the sleeve proudly displaying the Bellaphon logo. The band didn't find out about this until the mid-nineties, since the album wasn't released under the original title they had given it, and they eventually managed to purchase the copyright and get it released on CD in 2004.

Edit: The track times on our page are more or less in agreement with various YouTube full album uploads, and also the playlist supplied by Akarma - apart from tracks 6 & 7, which are both almost 2 minutes too long. A total running time of 51:27 does seem rather a lot for a vinyl LP, though I guess it's doable (the Bellaphon disc centre label claims 9:04 for side 1, track 4: '3 Piece Suite', and 9:14 for side 2, track 2: 'Laura Sleeping', but these both seem to be way off the mark).

This is from MusicBrainz:

The album cover image that was uploaded to PA is only 200x200px, and when magnified has become rather blurred. A much better quality 1275x1275 image can be found at Shazam, but its a .webp file, so would need converting before it could be used.

I don't know what the band is doing in Prog Related either lol! This is a great early 70s prog album: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAm-gWj5ydQ, probably worth a place in Prog Folk or Eclectic imho. 

The release year wasn't shown on the original Bellaphon pressing of the LP in 1971 (BPLS 19068), but when they reissued the album in 1975 (BL 15144) it has ℗ 1971 shown on the disc centre label. Some of the timings given on the disc centre labels of the original Bellaphon pressing were also wrong, as I previously mentioned, but Bellaphon corrected these on the 1975 reissue as shown on the two label images on Discogs:

The dubious independent Italian rock reissue label Akarma, based in La Spezia, Liguria, Italy, also reissued the album in 1975, with the corrected track times again shown on the centre label, but they gave the year of recording in England incorrectly as 1972, which is maybe what has led to the confusion regarding the original year of release. All the sale listings of the first pressing of the album on Popsike give the year of release as 1971, which to me is good enough confirmation that this was the correct year of release for the first pressing.

Later issues of the album, on LP, CD and digital, all give track timings of circa

...Give or take a few seconds!

I'd certainly take those timings over the current timings that we have, showing track 6. Laura Sleeping (8:04), and track 7. Spontenuity (8:20), which no page anywhere on the Internet would seem to agree with. 

There isn't really a definitive website link that we could include for the band. The band that arose following the end of Diabolus was Sunfly, which is still going with former Diabolus guitarist John Hadfield as a key member, and has a Facebook page here, but there is nothing whatsoever mentioned in any of their posts that has any connection to their previous work as Diabolus. It's almost as if they've wiped that that part of their past history from memory.

Probably the best site we could include now as a kind of 'official' website would be https://progressivegems.wordpress.com/2012/09/29/diabolus/, which has been in existence for over 12 years now, so seems to be a reasonably permanent part of the Internet.

The original http://www.diabolustheband.net/ site was only ever saved twice by the Wayback Machine (both in 2007), and neither capture contains any info whatsoever about the band. There are plenty of other sites that give the band's history, but most of them are historic music blogs containing illegal download links (though these are now mostly just dead links from old, defunct filehosting sites).

Regarding the Swimming In The Sand - The Best of 1989 - 2004 album, if info on Discogs is correct ("Re-recordings from the first three albums plus a new track"), it should be moved to Studio albums. But there is no confirmation on CD pages. Reviews on PA also say that it's re-recordings.

I took timings from Last.fm, but ZowieZiggy's review reads:

"Their greatest song ever released and their sole epic "I'm Still Searching" is reduced to a mere seven minutes (coming from over twenty-one). But in order to produce another epic, the band (whose line-up for this re-write work does not even feature their leader) decided to stretch "Evelyn" (originally just over seven minutes) to a twenty-one minutes piece of music."