Funny anecdote from when Dan recorded Katatonia's first lp

[Earthbound]

Jonas and Anders from Katatonia on recording Dance of December Souls with Dan:

"One fun thing about that album is that when we were mixing that album, Dan Swanö's DAT player was broken. He had to bring down a VHS video tape for use in the mixing process."
"I asked Dan if it at least was a brand new video tape. Well, he said it was just some old porn, but he just taped over it. So, that was our mastertape..."
"Our master is on top of porn"

Source.

There's also some talk about the recording of Brave Murder Day and how much Dan disliked that album while Mikael Åkerfeldt thought it was a punk album.
The whole article series is recommended reading for fans of Katatonia, lots of interesting stories and facts.

 

[the_fiend]

LOL, wtf Dan?

 

[Evil_Ed]

This can also be read in the biography book/magazine that Katatonia sold at their special 20th anniversary gigs they played in 2010/11. I bought it, fun reading.