how many of you know...

[opethpainter]

...that mr. renkse wrote the lyrics for the edge of sanity song called "losing myself", from the last swano-album "infernal"?

a strange album i'd say, with contributions from mr. akerfeldt too and peter tagtgren; EOS were gonna split out and that album sounds weird... you can see the difference between the prog influenced songs written by swano, and the crushing others written by the other members of the band.

check it out...

 

[Demonspell]

I don't think it's too weird given the long standing connections between Swano and Katatonia, and that song predicts his future direction, he's even played it live in Nightingale.

 

[midgetwar]

Besides the two Crimson's Erik? Even though Crimson II is essentially a Swano solo project, I think these are very coherent although they may be in a seperate catagory since they are one continues track and therefor coherent by nature.

 

[opethpainter]

dan swano is the king of the swedish (non-)metal scene.

 

[L0bster]

Swanö for president.

Anyway, I think Infernal is the least coherent of all EoS albums. Swanö recorded his songs himself with benny on the drums, and on a couple of dread-written songs he didn't even appear. He took help of some friends to write some lyrics, including renkse, but it's hardly among the better of renkses lyrics, or what do you say? Anders Jakobson (nasum) and micke åkerfeldt (opeth) did better lyrics for the Infernal album.
Oh, and everyone who hasn't listened a lot to Dan and his stuff should definately check out Crimson by EoS. The original that is.

And EriK: The old lyrics you heard for Losing Myself was never intended to be used. Swanö always worked with "scratch-lyrics" simple and cheezy stuff, just to get an idea of how which vocals would fit the song, so that he could write his lyrics from that point (in this case he sent that task to friends)