Dan Swanö

Dan Swanö live at Nosturi, March 2008

Dan Swanö (born March 10, 1973 in Finspång ) is a Swedish music producer, singer, guitarist , bassist , drummer and keyboardist . He is considered to be extremely influential in death metal , progressive metal, and progressive rock .

Career

Swanö was a member of a variety of bands. He played for Edge of Sanity , Nightingale , Pan.Thy.Monium , Brejn Dedd , Unicorn , Infestdead , De Infernali and Route Nine . As a drummer he played with Katatonia and Bloodbath and worked on Theli as a singer for Therion .

In 2001 Dan Swanö released the concept EP Sbrodj under the band name Karaboudjan, the content of which is based on the Tintin comics by Hergé . The three pieces, whose style is called Swanical Stoned Sludge Space-Rock by the web magazine Avantgarde Metal , are named after the comic albums Flight 714 to Sydney , The Black Island and The Mysterious Star ; Figures from the comics are listed as band members in the booklet, according to Dr. Krollspell or General Alcazar.

In his Unisound studio , Swanö has produced albums by Marduk , Opeth , Dissection , Katatonia, Diabolical Masquerade , Fall of Serenity , Misery Speaks and Dark Funeral, among others . He later stated that he never wanted to be a producer, it just happened. The musicians around him had arranged for him to produce them, and he had to quit his job because of that. Today he still works in a music store. In 1993 the studio became his only activity and the situation worsened with the birth of his son. In addition, his studio was only visited by black metal bands, which he found boring copies of Marduk and Dissection and who wanted their sound without possessing their talent. The bands more interesting for Swanö, in turn, went to larger studios such as Peter Tägtgren's Abyss studio because of better budgets . In addition, his work no longer gave him freedom and the work that went with it kept him from producing himself. He stopped working as a producer and sold instruments in a music store.

Discography

with Edge of Sanity

• see Edge of Sanity # discography

with Pan.Thy.Monium

• see Pan.Thy.Monium # discography

with Darkified

• 1991: Dark (demo recording)
• 1992: Sleep Forever ... (single)
• 1995: A Dance on the Grave (EP)

with Katatonia

• 1992: Jhva Elohim Meth (demo recording)
• 1999: Tonight's Decision
• 2007: Discouraged Ones (re-release)

with altar

• 1992: Ex oblivione / The Fragile Concept of Affection (Split with Cartilage)

with unicorn

• 1993: Ever Since
• 1995: Emotional Wasteland

with Godsend

• 1993: As The Shadows Fall
• 1995: In the Electric Mist
• 1997: A Wayfarers' Tears

with overflash

• 1993: Threshold to Reality

with Necrony

• 1994: Necronycism: Distorting the Originals (EP)

with Ghostorm

• 1995: Frozen in Fire

with Nightingale

• see Nightingale (band) #Discography

with Therion

• 1996: Theli
• 1997: A'arab Zaraq - Lucid Dreaming (Best-of)

with Fermenting Innards

• 1996: Myst

with Vinterland

• 1996: Welcome My Last Chapter

with Infestdead

• 1996: Killing Christ (EP)
• 1997: Hellfuck
• 1999: JesuSatan
• 2000: Hellfuck / Killing Christ (compilation)
• 2007: Split with Darkcide

with Under Black Clouds

• 1996: As Darkness Falls

with exhumation

• 1997: Seas of Eternal Silence

with Diabolical Masquerade

• 1997: The Phantom Lodge
• 1998: Nightwork
• 2001: Death's Design: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

as Dan Swanö

• 1998: Moontower

with Bombshell Rocks

• 1998: Street Art Gallery

with Odyssey

• 1999: Odyssey

with Swanö / Tägegren

• 1999: Country Girl on Holy Dio - A Tribute to the Voice of Metal: Ronnie James Dio

with Bloodbath

• 2000: Breeding Death (EP)
• 2002: Resurrection Through Carnage
• 2004: Nightmares Made Flesh
• 2008: The Wacken Carnage (live album)

with Eternal Tears of Sorrow

• 2000: Chaotic Beauty

with Karaboudjan

• 2001: Sbrodj

with Arjen Anthony Lucassen's Star One

• 2002: Space Metal
• 2010: Victims of the Modern Age

with pain

• 2002: Nothing Remains the Same
• 2005: Nothing (single)

with Hypocrisy

• 2004: The Arrival

with rib spreader

• 2005: Congregating the Sick

with Mountain of Power

• 2006: Mountain of Power

with threshold

• 2007: Dead Reckoning

with Darkcide

• 2007: Split with Infestdead

with Merciless

• 2007: Unbound

with demiurge

• 2007: Breath of the Demiurg

with Heaven Shall Burn

• 2008: Iconoclast

with Barren Earth

• 2009: Our Twilight (EP)

with total terror

• 2009: Total Terror

with Burden of Grief

• 2010: Follow the Flames

with Another Perfect Day

• 2010: The Gothenburg Post Scriptum
• 2012: Four Songs for the Left Behind

with November's Doom

• 2011: Aphotic

with Witherscape

• 2013: The Inheritance
• 2014: The New Tomorrow (EP)
• 2016: The Northern Sanctuary

Web links

• Dan Swanö on the baby blue pages

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Karaboudjan - Sbrodj. Avantgarde Metal, December 2, 2009, archived from the original on September 3, 2016 ; accessed on May 4, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Zorglub: Dan Swanö. La Horde Noire, 2004, accessed August 16, 2011 (French).