Moontower

Occupation

• Vocals, guitar, bass, keyboard, drums Dan Swanö

Moon Tower is the first and only solo album by Swedish musician and producer Dan Swanö. It was published in January 1999 by Black Mark Production.

Creation and publication

After the dissolution of Pan.Thy.Monium, the transient From Edge of Sanity and during a break from Nightingale Dan Swanö began work on a solo album. He wrote all the tracks, played all the instruments, produced and mixed the album, which he called Moontower; used for the artwork Anders Storm is a detail shot of Swanös eye. The mastering was taken over by Peter in de Betou.

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Style

Dan Swanö playing on Moon Tower melodic and hard progressive metal with typical for the death metal growling, a few passages are clearly sung. The electric guitar is usually used as a rhythm instrument or accompanied with their riffs, the melody leading keyboard, which sounds either like a " spacey " synthesizer or as a Hammond organ. Occasionally you hear an acoustic guitar. Despite the varied compositions, the album seems homogeneous. In the press individual style elements with Edge of Sanity, Amorphis, Opeth, Rush and Dream Theater were compared.

Reception

The album was well received by the press i A.. Matthias Weckmann from metal found Hammer, Swanö grab with Moon Tower "is not true for the stars, but certainly not in the toilet. " January Hamm of the Baby Blue Pages verdict: " Stylistic breaks, special experiments or varied song you are looking for, although in vain, for [ ... ] contains ' Moontower ' but really high quality material. " Michael Rensen of rock Hard praised, the album offers" enough interesting material to also prog fans and followers of symphonic bands like Covenant for hours to the pits to chain. "This eclipsed magazine took the album on its list of prog metal milestones.