Dan Swanö

Indiana-based death-doom metallers Mother of Graves summon rapture on new track “Tears Like Wine” off new album, Where the Shadows Adorn. Streaming bravely at Decibel!

Producer legend Dan Swanö tells the story of Steel, the obscure heavy metal supergroup he formed with Opeth members during the recording of their Morningrise LP.

Indianapolis-based upstarts Mother of Graves stream new track “The Urn” at Decibel! Only (melodic and depressive) death is real!

American underground death metal supergroup Cast The Stone meld different schools of Swedish death metal to form new EP, Empyrean Atrophy.

Sentient Horror once again lead old-school Swedeath fans through a Lovecraftian pathway between New Jersey and Stockholm on their new EP, The Crypts Below.

** My interview with Dan Swanö appeared in Decibel, but decided the long-form version of my chat with the omnipresent Swanö would best read out in its entirety. Why am I talking to Swanö? He’s the lead man (well, half) of new project Witherscape. The group’s new album is The Inheritance, which is available now…

Back when time was kept on watches and not phones (i.e., the period shortly after the demise of the trilobites) Swede Dan Swanö was producing records by Opeth, Katatonia, 59 Times the Pain, Millencolin, Coercion, and bunch of other “nobodies”. Decibel got a peek at Mr. Swanö’s “studio guestbook” when we inducted Katatonia’s Brave Murder…