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Infobox musical artist| image = Nightingale Nosturi 20032008 DanSwanö 02.jpg| name = Dan Swanö| caption = Dan Swanö live at Nosturi | background = solo_singer| birth_name =| alias = Day DiSyraah Killcite web|url= http://www.metal-archives.com/albums/Darkified/A_Dance_on_the_Grave/211240 |title=Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives - Darkified - A Dance on the Grave |publisher=The Metal Archives |date= |accessdate=2011-08-17| Born = birth date and age|1973|3|10|df=y Finspång , Sweden | origin = Örebro | death_date =| instrument = Singing|Vocals , guitar , Bass guitar|bass , Keyboard instrument|keyboards , Drum kit|drums , Percussion instrument|percussion , saxophone , cello , Programming (music)|programming | genre = Progressive metal , death metal , progressive rock , power metal , avant-garde metal , gothic rock , melodic death metal , black metal , doom metal .| occupation =| years_active = 1988–present| label = Black Mark Productions|Black Mark | associated_acts = Edge of Sanity , Bloodbath , Katatonia , Nightingale (band)|Nightingale , Opeth , Ribspreader , Millencollin | website =| notable_instruments = Dan-Erland Swanö cite web|url= http://www.ratsit.se/BC/ReportSmall.aspx? ID=U4TC0riMqKx7XpXbF-g5_kBT7d21WZMFYPGohh7SzNc |title=Ratsit - Gratis upplysning pl företag och privatpersoner |publisher=Ratsit.se |date= |accessdate=2011-08-17 (born 10 March, 1973) is a Sweden|Swedish musician who is currently the vocalist , guitarist , ex-bassist and ex-drummer for the band Nightingale (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 singing|clean and death growl|growled vocals.
Music
Swanö has fronted a number of bands, Brejn Dedd, Unicorn (band)|Unicorn , Infestdead and Route Nine. He has also been a member of Katatonia , Ribspreader , as well as playing drums and lead guitar in death metal band Bloodbath .cite web|url=Allmusic|class=artist|id=p398406|pure_url=yes|title=Biography: Bloodbath|last=Ankeny|first=Jason |publisher= Blabbermouth.net|Blabbermouth |accessdate=16 March 2010
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 (band)|Nightingale project. He can also be heard on the albums Theli (album)|Theli and '' A'arab Zaraq - Lucid Dreaming by the symphonic opera metal band Therion (band)|Therion . He was also producer and contributing writer of the band Diabolical Masquerade , the now defunct solo Avant-garde metal|avant-garde black metal band of Anders Nyström|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 metal|progressive death metal album entitled Moontower , on which he showcases his multi-instrumental talent, playing all instruments ( guitar , Bass guitar|bass , Drum kit|drums , Keyboard instrument|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).
Family and work
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 Death grunt|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 (band)|Nightingale , formerly under the name of Tom Nouga .
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")
Nightingale (band)|Nightingale - vocals, guitars, keyboards - The Breathing Shadow (1995), The Closing Chronicles (1996), I (Nightingale album)|I (2000), Alive Again (Nightingale album)|Alive Again (2003), Invisible (Nightingale album)|Invisible (2004) & White Darkness (album)|White Darkness (2007)
O - (The Circle)
The Outcome
Pan.Thy.Monium - bass, keyboards, effects (under the alias "Day Disyraah") - Dawn of Dreams (1992), Khaooohs (1993) & Khaooohs and Kon-Fus-Ion (1996)
Second Skycite web|url= http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx? mode=Article& newsitemID=134571|title=Dan Swanö Issues Update On Second Sky Project|date=February 4, 2010|publisher= Blabbermouth.net|Blabbermouth |accessdate=16 March 2010
Schecht + Akerfeldt + Swanö '98
Stygg Dödd
Subway Mirror
The Lucky Seven
The Project Hate MCMXCIX - producercite web|url= http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx? mode=Article& newsitemID=132926|title=The Project Hate MCMXCIX Announces Lineup Changes |date=January 5, 2010|publisher= Blabbermouth.net|Blabbermouth |accessdate=16 March 2010 on Cybersonic Superchrist . Mixing and Mastering on Deadmarch: Initiation of Blasphemy , Armageddon March Eternal - Symphonies of Slit Wrists , In Hora Mortis Nostræ , and The Lustrate Process
Unicorn - vocals, drums, session bass, session saxophone on albums Ever Since (1993) & Emotional Wasteland (1995)
References
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External links
Commons|Nightingale|Dan Swanö
http://www.swano.net/ Official website
http://unisound.se/ Unisound
http://myspace.com/odysseyswano/ Official Odyssey Myspace page
http://www.metal-rules.com/zine/content/view/1807/1/ Interview with Swanö
Edge of SanitySteel (band)|Steelblo Persondata | NAME =Swano, Dan | ALTERNATIVE NAMES = | SHORT DESCRIPTION = | DATE OF BIRTH =10 March 1973 | PLACE OF BIRTH = | DATE OF DEATH = | PLACE OF DEATH = DEFAULTSORT:Swano, Dan Category:1973 births Category:Living people Category:Swedish heavy metal bass guitarists Category:Swedish heavy metal drummers Category:Swedish heavy metal guitarists Category:Swedish heavy metal singers Category:Swedish tenors Category:Swedish multi-instrumentalists Category:Therion members
