Dan Swanö publishes old UNISOUND studio diary online (w/ notes)

[fireangel]

[hope not to be spamming, since I´m not here often, but I thought it´s interesting for some Katatonia-fans maybe]

Dan Swanö published a digitalized studio diary from Unisound 1997 online on his page and added lots of stories and memories to it. You can read there also about Katatonia and Opeth-recordings

Have a look over at Dan's forum if you are interested:
http://www.ultimatemetal.com/forum/dan-swanoe/650461-nostalgia-time-part-1-www-unisound-se.html

Here is a direct link, too:
http://www.unisound.se/book/black/#1

 

[insidethefall]

So brave murder day almost didn't happen because of a chick? sheesh!

 

[downandunder]

this is fucking cool, thx

 

[discouraged1]

thanks for the link

 

[isolation_years]

dan swano.......most under-rated man of all time

 

[BlueSky]

Thanks. Can't say I care about any of the records he talked about, but it was still an interesting read. This was the most intriguing bit, "It sounded cool. We managed to sample the kick drum from Dream Theater's 'Awake' and used that for the whole record. I also did my best to get the Inverse effect from the Awake-Snare."

 

[Bleak Eyes]

So brave murder day almost didn't happen because of a chick? sheesh!

I assumed he meant that had an argument similar to guys fighting over a lady. Maybe it was a creative difference.

 

[Noituudenaika]

Katatonia - Brave Murder Day


Since the guys had some kind of girlfriend related "war" going on… Katatonia was Nyströms project now.

He and I had all these fantastic ideas for it.

He wanted to make some kind of Chris Isaak metal or something like that, but just days before, he called and said that Jonas and he "made peace" and that Katatonia was back!!!

Since Jonas always was the dark side of Katatonia, I feared the worst

And I was right. The songs were the most dissonant, strange stuff I had heard in a long time.

And I must admit that I was a bit disappointed with the whole "turn out" of this session. But once Micke Åkerfeldt was begged down to Örebro to rescue the vocals, the album started to become a different beast.

Bleak as fuck and with a really thin and strange production…that somehow struck a nerve with people…

I even heard some Finnish band that cloned the sound down to the last detail…

 

[stefan86]

that Godgory gorilla butt left me scarred for life

 

[Coma323]

pretty interesting

 

[KittyKatatonia]

I guess the clone band Dan mentioned in there is Rapture? What's funny is I think the band were annoyed about Rapture copying their sound, but fully embraced Daylight Dies and even took them on tour. I think both bands copy their style well!

 

[isolation_years]

mike moon

 

[MoonTower]

dan swano.......most under-rated man of all time

Agreed

Brave murder day is FTW