So...

[Bertovo]

I was looking through the album notes on Metal-Archives and came across a few points of interest (For my n00b ass atleast)

On Crimson it says the line up is

Dan Swanö : Vocals
Andreas Axelsson : Guitars
Sami Nerberg : Guitars
Anders Lindberg : Bass
Benny Larsson : Drums, percussion

Guest musicians:
Mikael Akerfeldt - Vocals, lead guitars
Anders Mareby - Cello

What involvement did Mikael have in this album and at what part can I hear him sing?

And it says the line up for Crimson II is the following

Roger Johansson - Lead Growling Vocals
Jonas Granvik - Backing Growling Vocals
Mike Wead - Lead Guitar
Simon Johansson - Lead Guitar

I was under the impression that Dan did the whole album by himself?

 

[Naglfar]

He had collaborators on Crimson II. He also didn't do all the death metal vocals, although my impression is he wrote most, if not all, of it.

 

[Bertovo]

Yeah, I was under the impression that he did all the lead vocals on Crimson II.

 

[MECOSARIO]

The "Blacky" screams are from Mr. Akerfeldt on Crimson.

 

[cenzu]

...slight addition...

I recall lyrics on Crimson II are NOT by Dan!

 

[N.Sandoval]

Dan perfomed the death metal gruntings on both Crimson 1 & 2

Black metal like vocals were performed by Mike Akerfeldt on Crimson 1 and by a friend of Dan (I can't rememeber his name..) on Crimson 2.
And...I confirm that Dan has not written Lyrics of Crimson 2

 

[cenzu]

...I think it was Clive Nolan(?)
correct me if I'm wrong...

 

[AnTz0r]

on C1, Mikael Akerfeldts grunts is quite easily distinguishable from dan's. it's less deep then Dan's... it sounds like his grunt on Opeth's My Arms, Your Hearse album.

you can hear Mikael play some solos too.

The Death Cello Bizarre part is played by Mareby, around 8th minute. Then a piece of grunts come in, then it kick's into this awesome solo by Mike. Then follows the quiet part (the whole world is mourning, for the loss of their king). 1 or 2 minutes later kicks in Akerfeldts grunt (WARRRRRRRRRRRRRRR. MESSENGERS OF HELL!)

At the 28th minute is the quiet part again. It ends with "or is she the offspring of the unholy" GOOOOODDDDDDDDDDD <this is mikael

There are about 5 parts i think on C1 where Mike grunts.


C2: lyrics are written by Clive Nolan, from UK prog band Arena. Half of the grunts are performed by Dan, other half by the other 2 guys mentioned before.

 

[madu]

Mike's vocals of C1 are pretty distinguishable, they're a lot higher, more aggressive and the music gets more brutal always when Mike comes in :d

And yeah "or is she the offspring of an unholy GOD" is one of the best moments in music ever.

I wonder on Crimson II, I only hear two vocals, the lower being Dan and the higher being Rogga.. what does the 3rd guy do? The super-low vocals on Face to Face and such?

 

[N.Sandoval]

He probably backs up Dan's grunts

 

[mylovedenied]

Mike's vocals of C1 are pretty distinguishable, they're a lot higher, more aggressive and the music gets more brutal always when Mike comes in :d

And yeah "or is she the offspring of an unholy GOD" is one of the best moments in music ever.

I wonder on Crimson II, I only hear two vocals, the lower being Dan and the higher being Rogga.. what does the 3rd guy do? The super-low vocals on Face to Face and such?

Dan didn't do all the low growls, I believe. I know Rogga did the high growls, probably with Granvik backing. (They do those together on the Dead End World demo). Dan has a harsh, powerful growl, whereas Rogga's is more throaty, and rounded out. Granvik's is kinda similar to that.

 

[Bertovo]

All along I just assumed Dan had an incredibly veristile growl.

At the 28th minute is the quiet part again. It ends with "or is she the offspring of the unholy" GOOOOODDDDDDDDDDD <this is mikael.

Side note, this is probably the best part of any music ever.

 

[madu]

2nd best. Last 2 minutes of Add Reality is the best moment in music ever.

 

[mylovedenied]

I'm partial to the "They found a way to blind her, but it would cost some lives" part with the keyboards. I nearly shat myself when I heard that the first time.

 

[Infest_dead]

correct credits for "CRIMSON 1" :

Andreas Axelsson - Right Guitar
Benny Larsson - Drums, Inspiration
Anders Lindberg - Bass
Sami Nerberg - Left Guitar
Dan Swano - Center Rhythm and Harmony Guitar,
Clean and Acoustic Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals

Additional Musicians:
Anders Mareby - Death-Cello Bizarre
Mike Akerfeldt - Vocals & Lead Guitar

taken from original CD

 

[MECOSARIO]

Yep you're right

 

[Weizenkeim]

There was a word- file floating around here a while ago, which listed who did what vocals on Crimson 2. If anybody is interested, I might be able to dig it up somewhere...

 

[madu]

Sure.

 

[mylovedenied]

Hell yeah! I wanna see that.

 

[Infest_dead]

I have that file, but I dont know how to post it here. It's in *.rtf format.