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Dan Swanö
Dan Swanö live at Nosturi
Dan Swanö live at Nosturi
Background information
Also known asDay DiSyraah
Born (1973-03-10) 10 March 1973 (age 51)
Finspång, Sweden
OriginÖrebro
GenresProgressive metal, death metal, progressive rock, power metal, avant-garde metal, gothic rock, melodic death metal, black metal, doom metal
Instrument(s)Vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards, drums, percussion, saxophone, cello, programming
Years active1988–present
LabelsBlack Mark

Dan-Erland Swanö, [1] also known as Dan "The Man" Swanö (born 10 March 1973), is a Swedish musician and record producer who is currently the vocalist, guitarist, ex-bassist and ex-drummer for the band Nightingale, lately vocalist, keyboardist and drummer for the band Witherscape, 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 clean and growled vocals.

Career

Swanö has fronted a number of bands, including Edge of Sanity, Brejn Dedd, Unicorn, Infestdead and Route Nine. He has also been a member of Katatonia and Ribspreader, as well as playing drums and lead guitar in death metal band Bloodbath.[2]

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.

During 2009 Swanö re-activated Odyssey, this time performing all instruments by himself. Swanö recorded 7 of his all-time favourite songs which was released in 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).

In 2013, Swanö released with his new project Witherscape the full studio album The Inheritance, with Ragnar Widerberg as co-member, and the collaboration of, amongst other guest musicians, Novembers Doom's founder Paul Kuhr. It was followed a year after by the EP The New Tomorrow. In 2016, the full studio album The Northern Sanctuary was released, via Century Media Records like its predecessors, featuring once again Paul Kuhr.[3][4]

Dan 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. As a peculiarity, he is a left-handed guitarist, but plays on right-handed guitars without reversing the strings (highest strings up), which is quite unusual.

Unisound Studio

Unisound Studio (also Unisound Recordings[5][6] or Gorysound Studio)[7] is a recording studio owned and operated by Dan Swanö. It used to be in Finspång, Sweden, but was closed down in around 2001 because of his family.[8] The studio was later relocated into Swanö's home in Örebro, Sweden.

Family and work

Dan with his brother Dag

Despite the large amount of releases to his name, Swanö up until recently worked full-time in a music store[9] (Musikbörsen) in Örebro, near his home in Sweden, rarely doing live performances with any of his bands. Dan has an older brother, Dag Swanö who plays guitars and keyboards in Nightingale, formerly under the name of "Tom Nouga".[10]

Musical contributions

Bands Audio
engineering
Audio
mastering
Audio
mixing
Backing
vocals
Bass
guitar
Drum
kit
Electric
guitar
Electronic
keyboard
Former
member
Member Other Instruments Record
producer
Vocals
Aeon[11] Green tickY Green tickY
Altar Green tickY Green tickY
Ancient Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY
Ancient Ascendant Green tickY[12] Green tickY[12]
Another Life Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY
Another Perfect Day Green tickY
Argentum Green tickY Green tickY
As Light Dies Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY
Battlelore Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY
Bloodbath Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY
Bombshell Rocks Green tickY
Brejn Dedd Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY
Bucovina Green tickY Green tickY
Canopy Green tickY Green tickY
Coldworker Green tickY
Coraxo Green tickY[13]
Cronian Green tickY
Dark Funeral Green tickY
Darkcide Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY
Darkified Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY
Dawn Green tickY
Dawn of Dreams Green tickY[14] Green tickY
De Infernali Green tickY
Demiurg Green tickY> Green tickY Green tickY
Demon Project Green tickY
Denial Green tickY
Diabolical Masquerade Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY
Dissection Green tickY
Edge of Sanity Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY
Effloresce Green tickY Green tickY
Evergrey Green tickY Green tickY
Evocation[15] Green tickY
Evoke Green tickY
Fall of Serenity Green tickY
Fleshcrawl Green tickY
Fractal Gates Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY[16]
Frameshift Green tickY
Gates of Ishtar Green tickY
Ghost Green tickY
Ghostorm Green tickY> Green tickY Green tickY
Godsend Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY
Gorath[17] Green tickY
Hail of Bullets[18] Green tickY Green tickY
Hallows Die Green tickY
Hearse Green tickY
Incision Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY
Infestdead Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY
Insomnium Green tickY[19]
Kaoteon Green tickY
Karaboudjan Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY
Katatonia Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY
Lay Down Rotten Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY
Maceration Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY
M.E.S.S. Green tickY Green tickY
Mahlstrøm Green tickY
Marduk Green tickY
Masticate Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY
Mechanization Green tickY[20]
Millencolin Green tickY
Mirrors of Obsidian Green tickY
Moredhel Green tickY
Mörk Gryning Green tickY
Motorowl Green tickY[21] Green tickY
MyGrain Green tickY Green tickY
Nasum Green tickY Green tickY
Necrochamber Green tickY Green tickY
Nightingale Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY
Novembers Doom[22] Green tickY Green tickY
Novembre Green tickY
Nårdegaist Green tickY
Oddland Green tickY Green tickY
Odyssey[23] Green tickY[24] Green tickY[24] Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY
Omnium Gatherum Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY
Opeth Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY
Overflash Green tickY
Pain Green tickY
Pan.Thy.Monium Green tickY Green tickY
Proserpine[25] Green tickY
Rakshasas Green tickY
Ribspreader Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY
Route Nine Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY ? ? Green tickY
Rytmihäiriö[26] Green tickY Green tickY
Scartown Green tickY[27]
Somnae Green tickY[28]
Sörskogen Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY
Star One Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY
Steel Green tickY Green tickY
Subway Mirror Green tickY Green tickY
The Foreshadowing[29] Green tickY Green tickY
Theatre of Tragedy Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY
Therion Green tickY
Threshold Green tickY
Torture Division[30] Green tickY
Total Death Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY
Total Terror Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY
Uncanny Green tickY
Under Black Clouds Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY
Vinterland Green tickY Green tickY
Wake Arkane Green tickY
Winds Green tickY
Witherscape Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY
Wounded Knee Green tickY Green tickY

Discography

Year Bands Title Instruments Notes
1985 Ghost Djävulstriangeln Vocals Drums Demo
1986 Ghost Hollywood Vocals Drums Demo
1987 Ghost Solens Söner Vocals Drums Demo
1988 Brejn Dedd First Demo Backing vocals Drums Demo
1988 Brejn Dedd Ugly Tapez Backing vocals Drums Demo
1989 Brejn Dedd Born Ugly Backing vocals Drums Demo
1989 Unicorn A Collection of Worlds, Part I Vocals Drums Demo
1989 Unicorn A Collection of Worlds, Part II Vocals Drums Demo
1990 Masticate Desecration Vocals Guitars Bass Demo
1990 Stygg Död Välkommen till Helvetet Vocals Bass Demo
1990 Stygg Död 666+Våld Vocals Bass Demo
1990 Pan.Thy.Monium ...Dawn Bass Keyboards Demo
1990 Ulan Bator Gummicancer Backing vocals Drums Demo
1990 Incision Perverted Possessions Vocals Drums Demo
1990 Deppdöden Titta först på när jag dansar Drums EP
1990 Wounded Knee Searching Backing vocals Drums EP
1990 Ulan Bator På Rätt Spår Backing vocals Drums EP
1990 Subway Mirror/O(:the circle) Prime Vocals Guitars
1991 Pan.Thy.Monium Dream II Bass Keyboards EP
1991 Incision Infest Incest Vocals Drums EP, Unreleased
1991 Edge of Sanity Nothing But Death Remains Vocals Add. Guitar Keyboards
1991 Subway Mirror/O(:the circle) Golliwog Vocals Guitars
1991 Unicorn The Weirdest of Tales Vocals Drums Demo
1991 Wounded Knee Feelings Backing vocals Drums
1992 Edge of Sanity Unorthodox Vocals Add. Guitar Keyboards
1992 Pan.Thy.Monium Dawn of Dreams Bass Keyboards
1992 Maceration A Serenade of Agony Vocals
1992 Route Nine Disrupted Vacancy Vocals Bass Drums Keyboards Demo
1992 Subway Mirror/O(:the circle) RaQ Vocals Guitars
1992 Unicorn After Before Vocals Drums Demo
1993 Edge of Sanity The Spectral Sorrows Vocals Add. Guitar Keyboards
1993 Route Nine Before I Close My Eyes Forever Vocals Bass Drums Keyboards EP
1993 Pan.Thy.Monium Khaooohs Bass Keyboards
1993 Unicorn Ever Since Vocals Drums
1993 Subway Mirror/O(:the circle) Jpp Vocals Guitars
1994 Edge of Sanity Until Eternity Ends Vocals Add. Guitar Keyboards EP
1994 Edge of Sanity Purgatory Afterglow Vocals Add. Guitar Keyboards
1994 Subway Mirror/O(:the circle) Unreleased album Vocals Guitars
1995 Unicorn Emotional Wasteland Vocals Drums
1995 Nightingale The Breathing Shadow Vocals All Instruments
1996 Edge of Sanity Crimson Vocals Add. Guitar Keyboards
1996 Nightingale The Closing Chronicles Vocals Guitars Drums Keyboards
1996 Infestdead Killing Christ Guitars Bass Drum-programming EP
1996 Pan.Thy.Monium Khaooohs and Kon-Fus-Ion Bass
1997 Edge of Sanity Infernal Vocals Add. Guitar Keyboards
1998 Subway Mirror/O(:the circle) Wisepope Vocals Guitars
1997 Infestdead Hellfuck Guitars Bass Drum-programming
1998 Steel Heavy Metal Machine Vocals EP
1998 Dan Swanö Moontower Vocals All Instruments
1999 Edge of Sanity Evolution Vocals Add. Guitar Keyboards Compilation
1999 Odyssey Odyssey Vocals All Instruments EP
1999 Katatonia Tonight's Decision Session drums
1999 Infestdead JesuSatan Vocals Guitars Bass Drum-programming
2000 Nightingale I Vocals Guitars Drums Keyboards
2000 Bloodbath Breeding Death Backing vocals Drums EP
2001 Karaboudjan Sbrodj Vocals All Instruments EP
2001 Route Nine The Works Vocals Guitars Bass Drums Keyboards Compilation
2002 Bloodbath Resurrection Through Carnage Drums
2002 Nightingale Alive Again Vocals Guitars Keyboards
2002 Star One Space Metal Vocals
2003 Edge of Sanity Crimson II Vocals All Instruments
2004 Nightingale Invisible Vocals Guitars Keyboards
2004 Bloodbath Nightmares Made Flesh Backing vocals Guitars Bass
2005 Nightingale Nightfall Overture Vocals Guitars Keyboards
2005 Nightingale Alive Again Vocals Guitars Keyboards Live
2006 Edge of Sanity When All Is Said Vocals Add. Guitar Keyboards Compilation
2007 Darkcide Split EP with Infestdead Vocals All Instruments
2007 Nightingale White Darkness Vocals Guitar Keyboards
2008 Bloodbath The Wacken Carnage Backing vocals Guitar Live
2008 Total Terror Total Terror Vocals Guitar
2008 Nightingale Box of Rock Vocals Guitar Keyboards Compilation
2010 Odyssey Reinventing the Past Vocals All Instruments
2010 Star One Victims of the Modern Age Vocals
2010 Pan.Thy.Monium ...Dawn+Dream II Bass Keyboards Compilation
2012 Edge of Sanity Kur-Nu-Gi-A Vocals Add. Guitar Keyboards EP
2013 Witherscape The Inheritance Vocals Drums Keyboards
2014 Nightingale Retribution Vocals Guitars Keyboards
2014 Witherscape The New Tomorrow Vocals Guitars Keyboards EP
2015 Unicorn A Collection of Worlds Resurrection Vocals Drums Compilation
2016 Infestdead Satanic Serenades Bass Drum-programming Compilation
2016 Witherscape The Northern Sanctuary Vocals Guitars Keyboards
2017 Nightingale Rock Hard Live Vocals Guitars Keyboards Live
2018 Ghost 1983-1988 Vocals Drums Compilation

Miscellaneous

References

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