Biography Dan Swanö

Dan Swanö, (born on the March 10, 1973, in Finspång, Östergötland, Sweden), is a Swedish music producer, vocalist, guitarist, bassist, drummer and keyboardist, regarded as influential in the underground death metal, progressive metal, and progressive rock communities, with a small but devoted cult following for his numerous works.

Swanö has fronted a huge number of bands, most notably Edge of Sanity, Nightingale, Brejn Dedd, Unicorn, Infestdead and Route Nine. He has also been a member of Pan.Thy.Monium, Katatonia (for whom he played the drums), Ribspreader, lead guitars and drums and most recently a member of Bloodbath, playing drums on their first EP Breeding Death and debut album Resurrection Through Carnage. He moved to guitar for the release of Nightmares Made Flesh, which occurred when vocalist Mikael Åkerfeldt (Opeth) left and was replaced by Hypocrisy's Peter Tägtgren. Upon the completion of Nightmares Made Flesh, Tägtgren left and the vocalist position was once again vacant. Dan is no longer in Bloodbath as his "services are no longer needed" because he cannot tour with the group.

In the two man band 'Sörskogen', he was playing drums, keyboard and bass, while Åkerfeldt took care of vocals and guitar. Since the project was "just for fun", they never got serious about working on a release and officially only wrote one song, 'Mordet i Grottan', which was published on the internet with Åkerfeldts permission.

Swanö also has 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 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.

Besides all these bands, 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) and providing all the vocal work.

Swanö has a diverse vocal register, encompassing many styles, which include death grunts, clean, melodic singing with a warm rich tone, deep, dark, gothic vocals, and thrash shouting.

Musical projects involved with and/or is still involved with

This list is incomplete

Aeon - Production on Rise to Dominate

Altar - Keyboards, backing vocals

As Light Dies - Producer Ars Suptilior from within the cage

Attention

Another Life - Drums, Keyboards, guitar solo

Battlelore - Mix and Mastering on the album The last alliance

Bloodbath - Drums (1998-2004), Guitar (2004-2006)

Brejn Dedd - Drums, vocals

Canopy - Guest vocals, guitar

Coldworker - Producer

Cronian - Mastering on the album Terra

Dan Swanö - Vocals, all instruments

Darkcide - Guitar, Bass, Vocals

Demiurg - Lead Guitar

Diabolical Masquerade - Drums (on Nightwork), guest guitar solos, producer

Dissection - Engineered The Somberlain

Edge of Sanity - Vocals, guitar, Keyboards (old), all instruments (current)

Evocation - Guest Vocals on album Dead Calm Chaos

Evoke - Producer (Dreaming The Reality)

Fall Of Serenity - Production on The Crossfire

Frameshift - Vocals

Godsend - Vocals, Keyboards

Gorath - Mastering on the album "Misotheism"

Ghostorm - Vocals on song "Legend"

Hail of Bullets - Producer, Guest Vocals on album "....Of Frost and War"

Incision

Infestdead - Guitars, bass, drum programming

Karaboudjan - Vocals, all instruments

Katatonia - Drums, Keyboards, Vocals

Laodicea

Maceration - Vocals, Keyboards, Piano (under the alias "Day Disyraah")

Mahlstrøm - Guest vocals

Manfred Villes

Marduk - Producer

Masticate - Guitar, bass, vocals

Millencolin - Production on For Monkeys

Moredhel - Production on Metamorphose

Mork Gryning - Producer

Nasum - Producer, mastering

Necrony - Guest Vocals, Guitars, Composer (under the alias "Day Disyraah")

Nightingale - Vocals, Guitars, Keyboards

Novembre - Producer

Novembers Doom - Mixed The Pale Haunt Departure and The Novella Reservoir, and contributed a guitar solo on the song "Dark World Burden" on the album The Pale Haunt Departure

O (The Circle)

Odyssey - Vocals, Drums, Keyboards

Omnium Gatherum - Producer

Opeth - Producer

Outcome

Overflash - Drums

Pain - Additional Engineering on Nothing Remains The Same

Pan.Thy.Monium - Bass, Keyboards, effects (under the alias "Day Disyraah")

Ribspreader - Guitar, Drums

Route Nine - Vocals, guitar, bass, Keyboards

Second Sky

Schecht + Akerfeldt + Swanö '98

Sörskogen - Drums, bass, Keyboards

Star One - Guest vocals

Steel - vocals

Stygg Dödd

Subway Mirror

The Lucky Seven

The Project Hate MCMXCIX - Producer

Theatre of Tragedy - Producer

Therion - Guest Vocals

Threshold - Guest vocals

Total Terror - Guitar, vocals

Torture Division - Producer

Ulan Bator

Uncanny - Engineered

Under Black Clouds

Unicorn - Vocals, Drums, Session Bass, Session Saxophone

Vinterland - Producer, Keyboards

Winds - Guest Vocals (Prominence and Demise, 2007)

Wounded Knee - Producer

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