Dan Swanö
Encyclopedia
Dan-Erland Swanö is a Swedish
musician
who is currently the vocalist, guitarist
, ex-bassist and ex-drummer for the band Nightingale
as well as the Owner of Unisound
but he achieved fame as the vocalist and songwriter
of progressive death metal band Edge of Sanity
.
As a multi-instrumentalist
he is regarded as influential in the underground melodic death metal
, black metal
, progressive metal
, death metal
, progressive rock
, power metal
communities. He is known for his progressive rock
-influenced songwriting style and his frequent use of both clean
and growled
vocals.
, Ribspreader
, as well as playing drums and lead guitar in death metal band Bloodbath
.
He has also contributed his vocal talents to Arjen Lucassen's Star One
project. The two musicians are good friends, with Lucassen contributing guitar parts to Swanö's Nightingale
project. He can also be heard on the albums Theli
and A'arab Zaraq - Lucid Dreaming
by the symphonic opera metal band Therion
. He was also producer and contributing writer of the band Diabolical Masquerade
, the now defunct solo avant-garde black metal
band of Anders Nyström aka Blakkheim
(Katatonia
, Bloodbath
, ex-Bewitched). He also contributed some guitar solos, backing vocals on various Diabolical Masquerade albums, and played the drums on the album Nightwork. He also produced and played the keyboards on the Memories from Nothing album by Swedish progressive rockers Another Life, released on Vic Records.
Swanö has also released a solo progressive
death metal
album entitled Moontower
, on which he showcases his multi-instrumental talent, playing all instruments (guitar
, bass
, drums
, keyboard
) as well as providing all the vocal work.
Swanö has a diverse vocal register, encompassing many styles, which include death growl
s; clean, melodic singing with a warm rich tone; deep, dark, gothic vocals and thrash shouting.
As a particularity, he is a left-handed guitarist (right hand on the neck) but plays on right-handed guitars without reversing the strings (highest strings up), which is quite unusual.
During 2009 Swanö re-activated Odyssey, this time performing all instruments by himself. Swanö recorded 7 of his all time favourite songs which will be released (November 2010) on the album 'Reinventing The Past', together with the three 1999 tracks as a bonus on Dutch based Vic Records. His brother Dag played guest lead guitar on the song 'Gypsy' (Uriah Heep cover).
Despite the large amount of releases to his name, Swanö still works as chief sales assistant in a music store (Musikbörsen) in Örebro
, near his home in Sweden, rarely doing live performances with any of his bands (it has been said that one of the main reasons for this is that he is unable to sustain the heavy growling death metal
vocals used in many of his bands for any prolonged period of time). He has a German girlfriend and he maintains close ties to his family. He had played bass in his elder brother Dag Swanö's band Pan.Thy.Monium
with Dan using Day DiSyraah, and Dag using Äag as pseudonyms. Dag also plays guitar in Nightingale
, formerly under the name of Tom Nouga.
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
musician
Musician
A musician is an artist who plays a musical instrument. It may or may not be the person's profession. Musicians can be classified by their roles in performing music and writing music.Also....* A person who makes music a profession....
who is currently the vocalist, guitarist
Guitarist
A guitarist is a musician who plays the guitar. Guitarists may play a variety of instruments such as classical guitars, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, and bass guitars. Some guitarists accompany themselves on the guitar while singing.- Versatility :The guitarist controls an extremely...
, ex-bassist and ex-drummer for the band Nightingale
Nightingale (band)
The band's latest album is White Darkness and it was released 4 June 2007.-Line-up:*Dan Swanö : Vocals, guitars, keyboards...
as well as the Owner of Unisound
Unisound
Unisound is a recording studio that used to be in Finspång but was closed down by Dan Swanö it because of his family but it was relocated to Örebro, Sweden into his Home....
but he achieved fame as the vocalist and songwriter
Songwriter
A songwriter is an individual who writes both the lyrics and music to a song. Someone who solely writes lyrics may be called a lyricist, and someone who only writes music may be called a composer...
of progressive death metal band Edge of Sanity
Edge of Sanity
Edge of Sanity was a Swedish death metal band. Edge of Sanity are regarded alongside Opeth as being the first to fuse extreme metal styles like death and black metal with progressive rock.- History :...
.
As a multi-instrumentalist
Multi-instrumentalist
A multi-instrumentalist is a musician who plays a number of different instruments.The Bachelor of Music degree usually requires a second instrument to be learned , but people who double on another instrument are not usually seen as multi-instrumentalists.-Classical music:Music written for Symphony...
he is regarded as influential in the underground melodic death metal
Melodic death metal
Melodic death metal is a heavy metal music style that combines elements from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal with elements of death metal. The style was developed during the early and mid-1990s, primarily in England and Scandinavia...
, black metal
Black metal
Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. Common traits include fast tempos, shrieked vocals, highly distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, blast beat drumming, raw recording, and unconventional song structure....
, progressive metal
Progressive metal
Progressive metal is a subgenre of heavy metal originating in the United Kingdom and North America in the late 1980s...
, death metal
Death metal
Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It typically employs heavily distorted guitars, tremolo picking, deep growling vocals, blast beat drumming, minor keys or atonality, and complex song structures with multiple tempo changes....
, progressive rock
Progressive rock
Progressive rock is a subgenre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s as part of a "mostly British attempt to elevate rock music to new levels of artistic credibility." John Covach, in Contemporary Music Review, says that many thought it would not just "succeed the pop of...
, power metal
Power metal
Power metal is a style of heavy metal combining characteristics of traditional metal with speed metal, often within symphonic context. The term refers to two different but related styles: the first pioneered and largely practiced in North America with a harder sound similar to speed metal, and a...
communities. He is known for his progressive rock
Progressive rock
Progressive rock is a subgenre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s as part of a "mostly British attempt to elevate rock music to new levels of artistic credibility." John Covach, in Contemporary Music Review, says that many thought it would not just "succeed the pop of...
-influenced songwriting style and his frequent use of both clean
Singing
Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
and growled
Death growl
A death growl, also known as death metal vocals, guttural vocals, death grunts, and harsh vocals among other names, is a vocalisation style usually employed by vocalists of the death metal and black metal music genre, but also used in a variety of heavy metal and hardcore punk subgenres.Death...
vocals.
Music
Swanö has fronted a number of bands, Brejn Dedd, Unicorn, Infestdead and Route Nine. He has also been a member of KatatoniaKatatonia
Katatonia is a Swedish metal band formed in Stockholm in 1991 by Jonas Renkse and Anders Nyström .-1991-1993:The early Katatonia releases, such as the EP Jhva Elohim Meth.....
, Ribspreader
Ribspreader
Ribspreader is a Swedish death metal band.-History:Ribspreader was formed in June of 2002 by Rogga Johansson and Andreas Karlsson, both also of Paganizer. Their debut album features the famous Swedish musician and producer Dan Swanö on drums and lead guitar. The band split up shortly after the...
, as well as playing drums and lead guitar in death metal band Bloodbath
Bloodbath
Bloodbath is a Swedish death metal supergroup from Stockholm formed in 1998.-History:A year after being formed, the band, then consisting of Mikael Åkerfeldt on vocals, Dan Swanö on drums, Anders "Blakkheim" Nyström on guitar, and Jonas Renkse on bass, released their EP Breeding...
.
He has also contributed his vocal talents to Arjen Lucassen's Star One
Star One
Star One is a Dutch progressive metal supergroup/side-project of Arjen Anthony Lucassen of Ayreon fame. Unlike Ayreon, the band did not follow one storyline; instead, each song was a different story with a sci-fi concept, most of the tracks based on existing movies and series.-Origins and first...
project. The two musicians are good friends, with Lucassen contributing guitar parts to Swanö's Nightingale
Nightingale (band)
The band's latest album is White Darkness and it was released 4 June 2007.-Line-up:*Dan Swanö : Vocals, guitars, keyboards...
project. He can also be heard on the albums Theli
Theli (album)
Theli is an album released by the symphonic metal band Therion. While Theli stays true to the band's roots in that it has a very dark sound, it is a major turning point in their history. Set, Egyptian god, is shown on the front cover...
and A'arab Zaraq - Lucid Dreaming
A'arab Zaraq - Lucid Dreaming
A'arab Zaraq – Lucid Dreaming is the sixth full-length musical album by Swedish heavy metal band Therion released in the year that the band celebrated their tenth anniversary...
by the symphonic opera metal band Therion
Therion (band)
Therion is a Swedish symphonic metal band founded by Christofer Johnsson in 1987. The word "therion" comes from the Greek therion , meaning "Beast," i.e., that of the Christian Book of Revelation...
. He was also producer and contributing writer of the band Diabolical Masquerade
Diabolical Masquerade
Diabolical Masquerade was a Swedish one-man black metal band with progressive influences. The band was formed in 1993 in Stockholm as side project of Anders Nyström , known for his work as the guitarist of Katatonia.- History :...
, the now defunct solo avant-garde black metal
Black metal
Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. Common traits include fast tempos, shrieked vocals, highly distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, blast beat drumming, raw recording, and unconventional song structure....
band of Anders Nyström aka Blakkheim
Anders Nyström
Anders Nyström, also known as Blakkheim is a Swedish musician who was born on April 22, 1975 in Stockholm.-Biography:...
(Katatonia
Katatonia
Katatonia is a Swedish metal band formed in Stockholm in 1991 by Jonas Renkse and Anders Nyström .-1991-1993:The early Katatonia releases, such as the EP Jhva Elohim Meth.....
, Bloodbath
Bloodbath
Bloodbath is a Swedish death metal supergroup from Stockholm formed in 1998.-History:A year after being formed, the band, then consisting of Mikael Åkerfeldt on vocals, Dan Swanö on drums, Anders "Blakkheim" Nyström on guitar, and Jonas Renkse on bass, released their EP Breeding...
, ex-Bewitched). He also contributed some guitar solos, backing vocals on various Diabolical Masquerade albums, and played the drums on the album Nightwork. He also produced and played the keyboards on the Memories from Nothing album by Swedish progressive rockers Another Life, released on Vic Records.
Swanö has also released a solo progressive
Progressive metal
Progressive metal is a subgenre of heavy metal originating in the United Kingdom and North America in the late 1980s...
death metal
Death metal
Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It typically employs heavily distorted guitars, tremolo picking, deep growling vocals, blast beat drumming, minor keys or atonality, and complex song structures with multiple tempo changes....
album entitled Moontower
Moontower
Moontower is a solo album by Swedish musician Dan Swanö.Swanö described the album as sounding like “If Rush played death metal in the 1970s”.The Album cover is a close up of Swanö's Eye.- Track listing :# "Sun of the Night" – 5:14...
, on which he showcases his multi-instrumental talent, playing all instruments (guitar
Guitar
The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
, bass
Bass guitar
The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
, drums
Drum kit
A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
, keyboard
Keyboard instrument
A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
) as well as providing all the vocal work.
Swanö has a diverse vocal register, encompassing many styles, which include death growl
Death growl
A death growl, also known as death metal vocals, guttural vocals, death grunts, and harsh vocals among other names, is a vocalisation style usually employed by vocalists of the death metal and black metal music genre, but also used in a variety of heavy metal and hardcore punk subgenres.Death...
s; clean, melodic singing with a warm rich tone; deep, dark, gothic vocals and thrash shouting.
As a particularity, he is a left-handed guitarist (right hand on the neck) but plays on right-handed guitars without reversing the strings (highest strings up), which is quite unusual.
During 2009 Swanö re-activated Odyssey, this time performing all instruments by himself. Swanö recorded 7 of his all time favourite songs which will be released (November 2010) on the album 'Reinventing The Past', together with the three 1999 tracks as a bonus on Dutch based Vic Records. His brother Dag played guest lead guitar on the song 'Gypsy' (Uriah Heep cover).
Family and work
Örebro
-Sites of interest:Örebro's old town Wadköping is located on the banks of Svartån . It contains many 18th and 19th century wooden houses, along with museums and exhibitions....
, near his home in Sweden, rarely doing live performances with any of his bands (it has been said that one of the main reasons for this is that he is unable to sustain the heavy growling death metal
Death metal
Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It typically employs heavily distorted guitars, tremolo picking, deep growling vocals, blast beat drumming, minor keys or atonality, and complex song structures with multiple tempo changes....
vocals used in many of his bands for any prolonged period of time). He has a German girlfriend and he maintains close ties to his family. He had played bass in his elder brother Dag Swanö's band Pan.Thy.Monium
Pan.Thy.Monium
Pan.Thy.Monium was a Swedish avant-garde metal band formed and led by Dan Swanö with several members from another project of his, Edge of Sanity...
with Dan using Day DiSyraah, and Dag using Äag as pseudonyms. Dag also plays guitar in Nightingale
Nightingale (band)
The band's latest album is White Darkness and it was released 4 June 2007.-Line-up:*Dan Swanö : Vocals, guitars, keyboards...
, formerly under the name of Tom Nouga.
Musical contributions
| Bands | Audio engineering Audio engineering An audio engineer, also called audio technician, audio technologist or sound technician, is a specialist in a skilled trade that deals with the use of machinery and equipment for the recording, mixing and reproduction of sounds. The field draws on many artistic and vocational areas, including... | Audio mastering Audio mastering Mastering, a form of audio post-production, is the process of preparing and transferring recorded audio from a source containing the final mix to a data storage device ; the source from which all copies will be produced... | Audio mixing Audio mixing (recorded music) In audio recording, audio mixing is the process by which multiple recorded sounds are combined into one or more channels, most commonly two-channel stereo. In the process, the source signals' level, frequency content, dynamics, and panoramic position are manipulated and effects such as reverb may... | Backing vocals Backing vocalist A backing vocalist or backing singer is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists... | Bass guitar Bass guitar The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick.... | Drum kit Drum kit A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person .... | Electric guitar Electric guitar An electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker... | Electronic keyboard Electronic keyboard An electronic keyboard is an electronic or digital keyboard instrument.The major components of a typical modern electronic keyboard are:... | Former member | Member Member A member is a person who belongs to a social group or an entity such as a company or nation. By extension it can refer to any part of a whole.Member may also refer to:* Elected official** Member of Parliament... | Record producer Record producer A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music... | Vocals |
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| Ancient Ancient (band) Ancient is a Norwegian black metal band from Eidsvåg, Nesset, formed in 1992. The band has released six full-length albums released by Metal Blade Records and a variety of mini-albums, EPs and special releases. Ancient used to have the classic raw black metal sound, similar to Darkthrone's works... |
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| Battlelore Battlelore Battlelore is a metal band from Lappeenranta, Finland. All of Battlelore's lyrics concern J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth.-Style:Battlelore mixes female vocals with harsh male growling in "beauty and the beast" duet, backed by heavy guitar riffing and occasional keyboard interludes. The band's... |
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| Bloodbath Bloodbath Bloodbath is a Swedish death metal supergroup from Stockholm formed in 1998.-History:A year after being formed, the band, then consisting of Mikael Åkerfeldt on vocals, Dan Swanö on drums, Anders "Blakkheim" Nyström on guitar, and Jonas Renkse on bass, released their EP Breeding... |
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| Bombshell Rocks Bombshell Rocks Bombshell Rocks is a band that was founded in 1995, in Västerås, Sweden.- History :Before playing under this name, the group was called Down and Out... |
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| Coldworker Coldworker Coldworker is a Swedish deathgrind band, formed in early 2006. The band signed a deal with Relapse Records in June 2006, and since then released two studio albums, the debut The Contaminated Void, in November 2006, followed by Rotting Paradise, in May 2008.- History :Coldworker was formed in early... |
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| Cronian Cronian Cronian is a progressive/avant-garde metal band from Norway and Sweden founded in 2004 by Øystein Brun and Andreas Hedlund, also known as Vintersorg... |
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| Dark Funeral Dark Funeral Dark Funeral is a black metal band from Stockholm, Sweden, founded by guitarists Blackmoon and Lord Ahriman in 1993. They are one of the bands to have emerged in Sweden during the Second wave of black metal.... |
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| Dawn Dawn (metal band) Dawn is a Swedish blackened death metal band, from Linköping formed by Frederik Söderberg in 1990; while they disbanded for nearly a decade, they have reconvened and are active today. The band has released eight recordings, including two full-length albums... |
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| Diabolical Masquerade Diabolical Masquerade Diabolical Masquerade was a Swedish one-man black metal band with progressive influences. The band was formed in 1993 in Stockholm as side project of Anders Nyström , known for his work as the guitarist of Katatonia.- History :... |
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| Dissection Dissection (band) Dissection was a black metal band from Strömstad, Sweden. The band was formed in 1989, by Jon Nödtveidt. The band released its first EP in 1991. They disbanded in 2006, after Nödtveidt's suicide.- Band overview :... |
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| Edge of Sanity Edge of Sanity Edge of Sanity was a Swedish death metal band. Edge of Sanity are regarded alongside Opeth as being the first to fuse extreme metal styles like death and black metal with progressive rock.- History :... |
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| Evergrey Evergrey Evergrey is a progressive metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden. The band was founded in 1995 and released its debut album The Dark Discovery in 1998. Their most recent album Glorious Collision was released in 2011.-Lyrical themes:... |
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| Hail of Bullets Hail of Bullets Hail of Bullets is a Dutch death metal band from Amersfoort. The band's lyrical content deals with the Second World War. The band has released two albums via Metal Blade Records.-Albums:*…Of Frost and War... |
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| Katatonia Katatonia Katatonia is a Swedish metal band formed in Stockholm in 1991 by Jonas Renkse and Anders Nyström .-1991-1993:The early Katatonia releases, such as the EP Jhva Elohim Meth..... |
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| Marduk Marduk (band) Marduk is a black metal band from Norrköping, Sweden. The band formed in 1990 and released their first record in 1991. Their name is derived from the Babylonian god Marduk, patron deity of Babylon.-Musical style:... |
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| Mechanization Mechanization Mechanization or mechanisation is providing human operators with machinery that assists them with the muscular requirements of work or displaces muscular work. In some fields, mechanization includes the use of hand tools... |
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| Millencolin Millencolin Millencolin is a punk rock band that was formed in October 1992 by Nikola Šarčević, Mathias Färm, and Erik Ohlsson in Örebro, Sweden. In early 1993, drummer Fredrik Larzon joined the band... |
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| Nasum Nasum Nasum was a political Swedish band that played a mixture of grindcore and death metal. The band's name, meaning 'nose', was taken from the horror film Flesh for Frankenstein.-Biography:... |
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| Novembers Doom Novembers Doom Novembers Doom is a death/doom metal band from Chicago, Illinois. They are currently signed to The End Records. Novembers Doom is one of the earliest U.S. death/doom metal bands that are still active today along with Evoken and Rigor Sardonicous.... |
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| Novembre Novembre Novembre is a progressive death metal/gothic doom metal band.-Biography:Starting out in 1990 as an Italian death metal band , Novembre grew to develop a unique, atmospheric sound. Although most of their lyrics are in English, vocalist Carmelo Orlando sings in Italian occasionally in many of their... |
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| October Tide October Tide October Tide is a death/doom metal side project that was created in 1995 by Katatonia vocalist Jonas Renkse and then Katatonia guitarist Fred Norrman.-1995 - 1999:... |
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| Omnium Gatherum Omnium Gatherum Omnium Gatherum is a six-piece melodic death metal band from Finland, founded in the autumn of 1996. Although the band mainly follows the path of melodic death metal genre, the music created by the band, especially the later albums, has a strong feel/presence of other sub-genres, such as black... |
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| Opeth Opeth Opeth is a Swedish heavy metal band from Stockholm, formed in 1990. Though the group has been through several personnel changes, singer, guitarist, and songwriter Mikael Åkerfeldt has remained Opeth's driving force throughout the years... |
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| Pain Pain (Swedish band) Pain is a musical project from Sweden that mix Metal with influences from Electronic metal and Techno. The project started out as a hobby project for front man Peter Tägtgren, whose idea was to fuse metal with 1980's-inspired electro-industrial and techno influences... |
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| Pan.Thy.Monium Pan.Thy.Monium Pan.Thy.Monium was a Swedish avant-garde metal band formed and led by Dan Swanö with several members from another project of his, Edge of Sanity... |
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| Ribspreader Ribspreader Ribspreader is a Swedish death metal band.-History:Ribspreader was formed in June of 2002 by Rogga Johansson and Andreas Karlsson, both also of Paganizer. Their debut album features the famous Swedish musician and producer Dan Swanö on drums and lead guitar. The band split up shortly after the... |
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| Sörskogen Sörskogen Sörskogen was a Swedish progressive rock project Mikael Åkerfeldt of Opeth and Dan Swanö started for fun. Both musicians are known for their wide musical interests. The project was supposedly named after a small community near the Stockholm suburb Huddinge where Mikael practiced with his first band... |
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| Star One Star One Star One is a Dutch progressive metal supergroup/side-project of Arjen Anthony Lucassen of Ayreon fame. Unlike Ayreon, the band did not follow one storyline; instead, each song was a different story with a sci-fi concept, most of the tracks based on existing movies and series.-Origins and first... |
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| Therion Therion (band) Therion is a Swedish symphonic metal band founded by Christofer Johnsson in 1987. The word "therion" comes from the Greek therion , meaning "Beast," i.e., that of the Christian Book of Revelation... |
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| Threshold Threshold (band) Threshold is a progressive metal band, formed in Surrey, UK in the late 1980s.-History:Threshold began their career in 1988, initially playing covers of metal groups like Ratt and Testament. As they continued playing together, they began to write their own songs, and eventually stopped playing... |
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| Winds Winds (band) Winds is a Norwegian neo-classical/progressive metal band formed in 1998. The music is largely influenced by classical music, with Andy Winter's piano work and Carl August Tidemann's guitar solos, often the central focuses... |
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Miscellaneous
- Attention - "DemoDemoDemo may refer to:*DEMOs, a business process design methodology by Jan Dietz*Demo , a comic book series by Brian Wood and Becky Cloonan*Demo , a non-interactive multimedia presentation...
" (1989) - Dan Swanö - vocals, all instruments - MoontowerMoontowerMoontower is a solo album by Swedish musician Dan Swanö.Swanö described the album as sounding like “If Rush played death metal in the 1970s”.The Album cover is a close up of Swanö's Eye.- Track listing :# "Sun of the Night" – 5:14...
(1998) - Edge of SanityEdge of SanityEdge of Sanity was a Swedish death metal band. Edge of Sanity are regarded alongside Opeth as being the first to fuse extreme metal styles like death and black metal with progressive rock.- History :...
- vocals, guitar, keyboards (old), all instruments (later) - Incision
- Infestdead - guitars, bass, drum programming - Killing ChristKilling ChristKilling Christ is the first release from Infestdead. It was recorded and mixed within the span of a week by Dan Swanö alone at his Unisound studio.This first song on this EP is "I'll Be Black", an ode to Lucifer's human manfiest upon judgement day....
(1996), HellfuckHellfuckHellfuck is the second release from Infestdead. It was repressed with "Killing Christ" EP as bonus tracks, though the song "Bestial Genocide" is missing.-Tracks:#"Rebirth " - 00:28...
(1997) & JesuSatanJesuSatanJesuSatan is the final release from Infestdead before breaking up.It was re-released in the year 2000 in DIGIPAK form by Hammerheart Records.-Tracks:#"Re-resurrection" - 03:27#"Christinsanity" - 03:45#"Born to Burn" - 03:55#"JesuSatan" - 03:10...
(1999) - Karaboudjan - vocals, all instruments - Sbrodj (2001)
- Laodicea
- Maceration - vocals, keyboards, piano (under the alias "Day Disyraah")
- Manfred Villes
- Necrony - guest vocals, guitars, compositions (under the alias "Day Disyraah")
- NightingaleNightingale (band)The band's latest album is White Darkness and it was released 4 June 2007.-Line-up:*Dan Swanö : Vocals, guitars, keyboards...
- vocals, guitars, keyboards - The Breathing ShadowThe Breathing ShadowThe Breathing Shadow is the debut album from Nightingale. It was recorded and mixed within the span of a week by Dan Swanö alone at his Unisound studio. In this album, Nightingale did not yet consist of a band, and was simply a solo project by Dan Swanö...
(1995), The Closing ChroniclesThe Closing ChroniclesThe Closing Chronicles is the second studio album by the Swedish progressive/AOR metal/rock band Nightingale, released by Black Mark Productions in 1996. The album continues the story begun on The Breathing Shadow...
(1996), II (Nightingale album)I is the third full-length studio album by the Swedish progressive/AOR metal/rock band Nightingale. The album is a prequel to The Breathing Shadow story from the first two albums...
(2000), Alive AgainAlive Again (Nightingale album)Alive Again is the fourth full-length studio album by the Swedish progressive/AOR metal/rock band Nightingale.Subtitled "The Breathing Shadow, Part IV", it is the last album completely devoted to The Breathing Shadow story....
(2003), InvisibleInvisible (Nightingale album)Invisible is the fifth full-length studio album by the Swedish progressive/AOR metal/rock band Nightingale. The track "Still Alive" is the end of the Breathing Shadow story...
(2004) & White DarknessWhite Darkness (album)White Darkness is the latest studio album by the Swedish rock band Nightingale, released by Black Mark Productions in 2007. The song-writing on the album has been mainly done by Dan's brother Dag Swanö, with Dan himself only contributing the rare lyric or bridge.-Track listing:# "The Fields of...
(2007) - O - (The Circle)
- The Outcome
- Pan.Thy.MoniumPan.Thy.MoniumPan.Thy.Monium was a Swedish avant-garde metal band formed and led by Dan Swanö with several members from another project of his, Edge of Sanity...
- bass, keyboards, effects (under the alias "Day Disyraah") - Dawn of DreamsDawn of DreamsDawn of Dreams is the first album by avant-garde/progressive/death metal band Pan.Thy.Monium released in 1992.-Track listing:#"Untitled" – 21:49#"Untitled" – 5:51#"Untitled" – 4:03#"Untitled" – 3:06#"Untitled" – 2:42#"Untitled" – 4:26...
(1992), KhaooohsKhaooohsKhaooohs is the second album by avant-garde/progressive/death metal band Pan.Thy.Monium released in 1993.-Track listing:#"I Månens Sken Dog En Skugga" – 1:50#"Under Ytan" – 3:56#"Jag & Vem" – 5:54#"Lava" – 7:37#"Lömska Försåt" - 6:55...
(1993) & Khaooohs and Kon-Fus-IonKhaooohs and Kon-Fus-IonKhaooohs and Kon-Fus-Ion is the third and final album by avant-garde progressive death metal band Pan.Thy.Monium released in 1996.-Track listing:#"The Battle of Geeheeb" – 11:55...
(1996) - Second Sky
- Schecht + Akerfeldt + Swanö '98
- Stygg Dödd
- Subway Mirror
- The Lucky Seven
- The Project Hate MCMXCIXThe Project Hate MCMXCIXThe Project Hate MCMXCIX is a Swedish industrial death metal band. It was formed in 1998 and is one of the few death metal bands with a female and a male singer.- History :...
- producer on Cybersonic Superchrist. Mixing and Mastering on Deadmarch: Initiation of Blasphemy, Armageddon March Eternal - Symphonies of Slit WristsArmageddon March Eternal - Symphonies of Slit WristsArmageddon March Eternal is the fourth studio album by Swedish death metal band The Project Hate MCMXCIX.- Track listing :# "At the Entrance to Hell's Unholy Fire" – 08:13# "The Bleeding Eyes of a Breeding Whore" – 09:32...
, In Hora Mortis Nostræ, and The Lustrate ProcessThe Lustrate ProcessThe Lustrate Process is the sixth studio album by Swedish death metal band The Project Hate MCMXCIX. It was released in July 2009 on the Dutch label Vic Records.-Track listing:- Personnel :* Jörgen Sandström – vocals* Jo Enckell – vocals* Lord K... - Theatre of TragedyTheatre of TragedyTheatre of Tragedy was a Norwegian band from Stavanger, active between 1993 and 2010. They are best known for their earlier albums, which provided a great deal of influence to the gothic metal genre.-Biography:...
- engineering, mixing, cello Theatre of TragedyTheatre of Tragedy (album)Theatre of Tragedy is the self-titled debut album of Norwegian metal band Theatre of Tragedy. The album sold approximately 75,000 copies.-Track listing:# "A Hamlet for a Slothful Vassal" – 4:05 # "Cheerful Dirge" – 5:02...
(1995) - Ulan Bator
- Unicorn - vocals, drums, session bass, session saxophone on albums Ever SinceEver since"Ever Since" is a 2002 song released by J-pop singer Sayaka. She wrote the lyrics herself, but the music was composed by Shunsaku Okuda of The Brilliant Green. It was the ending theme song of the Japanese drama Big Money , and it reached a #5 ranking on the Oricon sales chart.A limited edition was...
(1993) & Emotional Wasteland (1995)