Dan Swano

Dan Swanö (born March 10, 1973, in Finspång, 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.

Music

Swanö has fronted a number of bands, most notably Edge of Sanity, Nightingale, Pan.Thy.Monium, Brejn Dedd, 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.

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 growls; clean, melodic singing with a warm rich tone; deep, dark, gothic vocals and thrash shouting.

Family and work

Swanö with his brother Dag
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

Musical contributions

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Aeon - Production on Rise to Dominate
Altar - Keyboards, backing vocals
Ancient - production, mixing and engineering on The Cainian Chronicle
Argentum - Guitar, 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 (2004-2008)
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, heavy metal vocal (on "The Phantom Lodge" 7th track - Hater)
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"
Ghost(band) - Drums
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
Lay Down Rotten - Mixing, Mastering, and guest vocals
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, The Novella Reservoir and ''Into Night's Requiem Infernal, 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

Discography

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With Unicorn

Ever Since (1993)
Emotional Wasteland (1995)

With Edge of Sanity

Nothing But Death Remains (1991)
Unorthodox (1992)
The Spectral Sorrows (1993)
Purgatory Afterglow (1994)
Crimson (1996)
Infernal (1997)
Crimson II (2003)

With Diabolical Masquerade

Nightwork (1998)
Death's Design (2001)

With Bloodbath

Breeding Death (2000)
Resurrection Through Carnage (2002)
Nightmares Made Flesh (2005)
The Wacken Carnage (Live) (2008)

With Pan.Thy.Monium

Dawn of Dreams (1992)
Khaooohs (1993)
Khaooohs and Kon-Fus-Ion (1996)

With Nightingale

The Breathing Shadow (1995)
The Closing Chronicles (1996)
I (2000)
Alive Again (2003)
Invisible (2004)
White Darkness (2007)

With Infestdead

Killing Christ (1996)
Hellfuck (1997)
JesuSatan (1999)

With Godsend

A Wayfarers Tears (1997)

With Katatonia

Jhva Elohim Meth..

. The Revival (1992)
Dance of December Souls (1993)
Tonight's Decision (1999)

With Karaboudjan

Sbrodj (2001)

Solo

Moontower (1998)
Odyssey (1999)

Signed Music Artists

Music

Family and work

Musical contributions