Moontower

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Moontower
Studio album by Dan Swanö

Publication
(s)

January 1999

admission

April 1998

Label (s) Black Mark Production

Title (number)

8th

running time

43:44

occupation

production

Dan Swanö

Studio (s)

The Sanctuary

Moontower is the only solo album by the Swedish musician and producer Dan Swanö to date . It was released by Black Mark Production in January 1999 .

Creation and publication

After the breakup of Pan.Thy.Monium , the temporary end of Edge of Sanity and during a break from Nightingale , Dan Swanö began work on a solo album. He wrote all the pieces, played all the instruments, produced and mixed the album he called Moontower ; Anders Storm used a close-up shot of Swanö's eye for the artwork . The mastering was done by Peter in de Betou.

Track list

  1. Sun of the Night - 5:14
  2. Patchworks - 4:59
  3. Uncreation - 5:40
  4. Add Reality - 6:17 am
  5. Creating Illusions - 4:13
  6. The Big Sleep - 5:17
  7. Encounter parts - 6:06
  8. In Empty Phrases - 5:58

style

Dan Swanö plays melodic and heavy Progressive Metal on Moontower with the growling typical of Death Metal , only a few passages are sung clearly. The electric guitar is mostly used as a rhythm instrument or accompanies the melody-leading keyboard with its riffs, which either sounds like a "spacey" synthesizer or a Hammond organ . Occasionally an acoustic guitar can be heard. Despite the varied compositions, the album appears homogeneous. In the press, individual stylistic elements were compared with Edge of Sanity, Amorphis , Opeth , Rush and Dream Theater .

reception

The album was received by the press i. A. positively received. Matthias Weckmann from Metal Hammer thought that Swanö was “not reaching for the stars with Moontower , but definitely not into the toilet.” Jan Hamm from Babyblauen Seiten judged: “You look in vain for stylistic breaks, special experiments or varied singing [...] But 'Moontower' contains really high-quality material. "Michael Rensen from Rock Hard praised that the album offered" enough interesting material to keep Prog fans and fans of symphonic troops like Covenant chained to the speakers for hours. " eclipsed magazine added the album to its list of prog metal milestones.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Eduardo Rivadavia: Moontower at Allmusic (English), accessed on October 5, 2013.
  2. ↑ a b Baby Blue Prog Reviews: Dan Swanö. Moontower , Baby Blue Pages , accessed October 5, 2013.
  3. ↑ Michael Rensen: Dan Swanö. Moontower , Rock Hard # 135, accessed October 5, 2013.
  4. ^ Matthias Weckmann: Dan Swanö - Moontower , Metal Hammer 08/1998, accessed on October 5, 2013.
  5. ↑ eclipsed No. 144, p. 31.