Dan Swano is one of the biggest metal heroes! Extraordinary musician, singer, and producer. He produced the first two Opeth albums and of course, was in Bloodbath for a long time. Swano is a king of death metal and progressive metal.
@tubelious I can also confirmed via my interactions with him he is a true gentleman and friend. Goes out of his way way to help musicians and little things as I am a huge fan to impact my life in small ways. He for me out of nowhere emailed me to wish my wife and I a happy 10th anniversary. I was gobsmacked. Thabk you Dan your a hero of mine.
Seeing as you mentioned Dissection, i have to point out the fact that Dan was the producer of both The Somberlain and Storm Of The Light's Bane, as well as many other landmark releases of bands such as Opeth, Therion and Katatonia. Not to mention him Being an extraordinary composer and songwriter that influenced the fields of Death, Black, Progressive, Gothic and Avant-Garde Metal. If the industry was more fair he'd be drowning in Grammys. Oh well...
well if you want to hear the best of Edge of Sanity I highly recommend their album Crimson, it will take you on a epic tale followed with great music, that album is actually just one big song. And also it has guest vocals from Mikael from Opeth.
Edge of Sanity was the sound of my paper route back in my teens. The main tape in my walkman had Purgatory afterglow on one side and Hypocrisy's Osculum Obscenum on the other. I think EoS is rather underrated in the swedish death metal scene. Dan Swanö is probably more influential as a producer than he is as a musician. In fact he produced and mixed the first 2 Dissection records.
Dan Swano ruled the 90s for me. Everything he touched I had to listen to...and that was A LOT (singer, songwriter, musician, producer). My man is prolific. IMO, the center of the 90s Swedish death metal wave.
Nice reaction:) I love Edge of Sanity and this song. But my favourite album is probably The Spectral Sorrows. Edge... comes from the small town of Finnspång. They almost created an own deathmetal scene there, because they didn`t belong to any of of the big scenes here in Sweden. (The Stockholm scene and the Gothenburg scene.) They created their own kind of deathmetal with more progressive sounds. As many here already told you the Mastermind behind all this is Dan Swanö. A fantastic musician and producer. One of my favourite sideprojects from him is Pan Thy Monium. Weird but great stuff. Check them out:)
Actually, here in Umeå where I come from they influenced the local death metal scene back in the early 90s more than the Sthlm or Gbg scene I'd argue. Subjective of course, but at least my own band took much more influence from EoS, Carcass and early PL than anything else. We even covered Darkday from Spectral Sorrows a few times live.
What do we think of Edge of Sanity? Also, I am back from an out of state wedding! So sorry for missing Metal Monday! We will continue our stream next Monday. Love ya xoxox
has been my favorite band for 20 years, that's when i first got access to internet and i don't know how i ended up downloading(pirating) face to face from the crimson 2 album. i just wanted to hear more after i heard that particular song, i can't say it's my favorite song(it's probably eternal eclipse) but it's still a very special one to me.
EDGE OF SANITY was a *MAJOR* discovery for me as a kid in the 90s, back when music fans could only stare in awe at album advertisements in Metal magazines and hope to somehow get their hands on them one day. That experience can't be reproduced today, but it's always great to see kids hearing the Ancient Classics. 💀
Edge of Sanity is awesome!!! I love this old-school deeply dark and heavy Swedish black/thrash. If you like this song, you should listen to early Therion and Tiamat, especially Sumerian Cry! Also of course early Cradle of Filth! This is dirty, evil, nasty stuff... and I love it!
dan is my musical hero. he has one of the most beautiful clean singing voice. he has done prog rock albums where he sign clean all the time. like unicorn emotional wasteland and nightingale the closing chronicle. he is a legendary metal producer too. his production resume is loaded with legendary metal bands.
Dan Swanö is a true music lover, not only because of his immense discography in which he has done everything from playing an instrument, producing or singing (I love Dan's voice in all his versions)... he has produced more than 100 albums, among which bands such as Opeth, Dissection, Infestdead, Katatonia, Incantation, Cut Up, Bloodbath, Nightingale (a semi-progressive Heavy/Doom band accompanied by his brother and friends), Witherscape, Star One (Avantasia-style project) stand out. but in the Space 😂) and an almost infinite etc etc etc... until Milencolin (yes the 90's Punk band)...
Yeh, Dan Swano's my musical hero in my teens. His involvement in shaping the Swedish DM scene in the early 90s is unprecedented. He produced some of the most influential metal records (Unisound studios) like Marduk, Katatonia (even played drums on their early albums), Opeth, Dissection, Bloodbath etc etc. Crimson's definitely their best (IMHO) record.
He is very good friends with Michael from Opeth. Came up in the swedish scene together. They formed Bloodbath togethwr along with Jonas and Blackheim from Katatonia. DAN sings on the Diabolical Masquerade albums. Blackheims solo records. All excellent. On Crimson Michael from Opeth gives backing vocals and om the near mid song break gives a near minute long high fry vox scream that is GOAT in metal. A shining shinging moment in metal. Once you hear it and realize what he is doing and the difficulty breath wise (im a death vox myself) it is awe inspiring.
Crimson and Crimson II are the magnus opuses of Edge of sanity and Dan Swanö, best concept albums I've ever heard in extreme metal (save for Opeth - Still life)
Definitely check their album crimson , is a hole amazing jurney combining different styles and also having the frontman from Opeth as guest. I insist check the album
He in fact produced their first two albums he even made some scream or growl on some of them and some solo. There is a great documentary somewhere where he talks about it. I guess it can still be found on RUclips.
This was 1992. Would it be fair to say that Swano is the father of progressive death metal? :D By the way, Mikael appears with some unhinged growls in his 1996 album Crimson.
I think so. Pure technical death metal with some infusion from the likes of Atheist and Nocturnus are one thing, but Dan definitely helped pioneer, with Cynic and Death helping from 1993 onward.
I really prefer the later edge of sanity. Its more refined and groovy. If you like concept albums, this band did a two part fantasy concept. Crimson 1 and 2. And its really good. A lot more hook riffs. Actually this band got better quickly. Really good stuff. Purgatory after glow! The 90s death metal.
Dan Swano is one of the biggest metal heroes! Extraordinary musician, singer, and producer. He produced the first two Opeth albums and of course, was in Bloodbath for a long time. Swano is a king of death metal and progressive metal.
Two biggest names in metal in Sweden: Dan Swanö & Peter Tägtgren, the effect these dudes have put in the metal world is huge.
@tubelious I can also confirmed via my interactions with him he is a true gentleman and friend. Goes out of his way way to help musicians and little things as I am a huge fan to impact my life in small ways. He for me out of nowhere emailed me to wish my wife and I a happy 10th anniversary. I was gobsmacked. Thabk you Dan your a hero of mine.
Dont forget Witherscape and Maceration!
Dan Swano is a musical genious! and its amazing that he plays a right handed guitar, left handed, without flipping the strings
Seeing as you mentioned Dissection, i have to point out the fact that Dan was the producer of both The Somberlain and Storm Of The Light's Bane, as well as many other landmark releases of bands such as Opeth, Therion and Katatonia. Not to mention him Being an extraordinary composer and songwriter that influenced the fields of Death, Black, Progressive, Gothic and Avant-Garde Metal. If the industry was more fair he'd be drowning in Grammys. Oh well...
well if you want to hear the best of Edge of Sanity I highly recommend their album Crimson, it will take you on a epic tale followed with great music, that album is actually just one big song. And also it has guest vocals from Mikael from Opeth.
Good suggestion, Crimson has some growls from Mikeal of Opeth! Its a masterpiece of an album
And Crimson II is a pretty solid sequel.
And I think by that time Edge Of Sanity was just a one-man band. Just Swano.
I was already subscribed but doing an Edge of Sanity reaction is an automatic level up!
Edge of Sanity was the sound of my paper route back in my teens. The main tape in my walkman had Purgatory afterglow on one side and Hypocrisy's Osculum Obscenum on the other.
I think EoS is rather underrated in the swedish death metal scene. Dan Swanö is probably more influential as a producer than he is as a musician. In fact he produced and mixed the first 2 Dissection records.
Lord Swanö!
Dan Swano can do no wrong. Bloodbath, Moontower, Edge of Sanity, Witherscape, Pan-Thy-Monium, all gold.
How can you leave off Nightingale!!
Also to mention Infestdead wich I rather listen to than Deicide.
Pan.Thy.Monium! Pioneers of Avant-garde Death Metal.
Such eager enthusiasts…
Dan Swano ruled the 90s for me. Everything he touched I had to listen to...and that was A LOT (singer, songwriter, musician, producer). My man is prolific. IMO, the center of the 90s Swedish death metal wave.
Nice reaction:) I love Edge of Sanity and this song. But my favourite album is probably The Spectral Sorrows. Edge... comes from the small town of Finnspång. They almost created an own deathmetal scene there, because they didn`t belong to any of of the big scenes here in Sweden. (The Stockholm scene and the Gothenburg scene.) They created their own kind of deathmetal with more progressive sounds. As many here already told you the Mastermind behind all this is Dan Swanö. A fantastic musician and producer. One of my favourite sideprojects from him is Pan Thy Monium. Weird but great stuff. Check them out:)
Actually, here in Umeå where I come from they influenced the local death metal scene back in the early 90s more than the Sthlm or Gbg scene I'd argue. Subjective of course, but at least my own band took much more influence from EoS, Carcass and early PL than anything else. We even covered Darkday from Spectral Sorrows a few times live.
Subscribed! I LOVE Edge of Sanity, and Crimson is one of my infinity-tier albums. I’m looking forward to seeing more of your metal journey, Kaiya!
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What do we think of Edge of Sanity? Also, I am back from an out of state wedding! So sorry for missing Metal Monday! We will continue our stream next Monday. Love ya xoxox
has been my favorite band for 20 years, that's when i first got access to internet and i don't know how i ended up downloading(pirating) face to face from the crimson 2 album.
i just wanted to hear more after i heard that particular song, i can't say it's my favorite song(it's probably eternal eclipse) but it's still a very special one to me.
EDGE OF SANITY was a *MAJOR* discovery for me as a kid in the 90s, back when music fans could only stare in awe at album advertisements in Metal magazines and hope to somehow get their hands on them one day. That experience can't be reproduced today, but it's always great to see kids hearing the Ancient Classics. 💀
Dan recorded legendary Dissections "Storm of the Light's Bane". He is living god among us (not only for that). I'd grew with his projects in 90's.
for early / mid 90s DM, this was way ahead of its time. Good stuff.
Edge of Sanity is awesome!!! I love this old-school deeply dark and heavy Swedish black/thrash. If you like this song, you should listen to early Therion and Tiamat, especially Sumerian Cry! Also of course early Cradle of Filth! This is dirty, evil, nasty stuff... and I love it!
dan is my musical hero. he has one of the most beautiful clean singing voice. he has done prog rock albums where he sign clean all the time. like unicorn emotional wasteland and nightingale the closing chronicle. he is a legendary metal producer too. his production resume is loaded with legendary metal bands.
Dan Swanö is a true music lover, not only because of his immense discography in which he has done everything from playing an instrument, producing or singing (I love Dan's voice in all his versions)... he has produced more than 100 albums, among which bands such as Opeth, Dissection, Infestdead, Katatonia, Incantation, Cut Up, Bloodbath, Nightingale (a semi-progressive Heavy/Doom band accompanied by his brother and friends), Witherscape, Star One (Avantasia-style project) stand out. but in the Space 😂) and an almost infinite etc etc etc... until Milencolin (yes the 90's Punk band)...
Yeh, Dan Swano's my musical hero in my teens. His involvement in shaping the Swedish DM scene in the early 90s is unprecedented. He produced some of the most influential metal records (Unisound studios) like Marduk, Katatonia (even played drums on their early albums), Opeth, Dissection, Bloodbath etc etc. Crimson's definitely their best (IMHO) record.
He is very good friends with Michael from Opeth. Came up in the swedish scene together. They formed Bloodbath togethwr along with Jonas and Blackheim from Katatonia. DAN sings on the Diabolical Masquerade albums. Blackheims solo records. All excellent.
On Crimson Michael from Opeth gives backing vocals and om the near mid song break gives a near minute long high fry vox scream that is GOAT in metal. A shining shinging moment in metal. Once you hear it and realize what he is doing and the difficulty breath wise (im a death vox myself) it is awe inspiring.
one of the best albums ever made
Enigma is one of the best songs in the history of Swedish Death Metal. Dan Swano always!!!!!
Crimson and Crimson II are the magnus opuses of Edge of sanity and Dan Swanö, best concept albums I've ever heard in extreme metal (save for Opeth - Still life)
Definitely check their album crimson , is a hole amazing jurney combining different styles and also having the frontman from Opeth as guest. I insist check the album
That song is the Paranoid Android of Death Metal.
Unorthodox is edge of sanity best album and crimson as well magical 40 minutes non stop song
Listen to Crimson because it is a masterpiece and Dan Swanö is a genius. “Uncreation” is also mandatory!
One of the greatest bands of all time. They don't play live, never have as far as I know
Now you just have to do Crimson!
Dan swano is the chuck norris of european metal.
Yes one of first to give clean vocals. I believe Fear Factory was first on Soul of a new Machine.
Cryptopsy - NONE SO VILE (1996) 💙
Full album listen, DO IT!!!
yea just do it
time to discover swedish melodic death metal frfr
Svanö produced storm of the lights bane by dissection. Thats the Linc between EOS and Dissection.
He in fact produced their first two albums he even made some scream or growl on some of them and some solo.
There is a great documentary somewhere where he talks about it. I guess it can still be found on RUclips.
F*ckig Great!!! EDGE OF SANITY RULES!!!
More groove pockets than a pair of cargo pants
This was 1992. Would it be fair to say that Swano is the father of progressive death metal? :D By the way, Mikael appears with some unhinged growls in his 1996 album Crimson.
I think so. Pure technical death metal with some infusion from the likes of Atheist and Nocturnus are one thing, but Dan definitely helped pioneer, with Cynic and Death helping from 1993 onward.
My favorite Swedeath album. Enigma!
You have to listen Twilight from their album Purgatory Afterglow an absolute masterpiece
What is this song? Just one of the best death metal songs ever written.
I really prefer the later edge of sanity. Its more refined and groovy. If you like concept albums, this band did a two part fantasy concept. Crimson 1 and 2. And its really good. A lot more hook riffs. Actually this band got better quickly. Really good stuff. Purgatory after glow! The 90s death metal.
Check out SEANCE/fornever laid to rest and and CEMETERY/an evil shade of grey!!! More killer BLACK MARK records releases!! 👍
Not to be that guy but Edge of Sanity is not like Opeth.. Rather Opeth is like Edge of Sanity :D
Oh no. Such a shame you didn’t listen to something from either of the Crimson albums. Those are far and away their best work
Swedeath Masterpiece!!! 😀 😎 👍 ❤
Hello Kaiya
Hearing a bit of early Entombed in this.
Nice.
Your channel keeps popping up when I search stillwater.are you based in stillwater oklahoma?
Inmortal souls
Meshuggah immutable album full reaction please? day 22 asking 😔