Nightingale (band)
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The band's latest album is White Darkness and it was released 4 June 2007.
Line-up
- Dan SwanöDan SwanöDan-Erland Swanö is a Swedish musician who is currently the vocalist, guitarist, ex-bassist and ex-drummer for the band Nightingale as well as the Owner of Unisound but he achieved fame as the vocalist and songwriter of progressive death metal band Edge of Sanity.As a multi-instrumentalist he is...
(1994–present): VocalsSingingSinging is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
, guitarElectric guitarAn electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...
s, keyboards (see entry for list of other projects) - Dag Swanö (Tom Nouga) (1996–present): BassBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
, guitarElectric guitarAn electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...
s, keyboards, vocals (Also in: Pan.Thy.MoniumPan.Thy.MoniumPan.Thy.Monium was a Swedish avant-garde metal band formed and led by Dan Swanö with several members from another project of his, Edge of Sanity...
) - Tom Björn (25 December 2000–present): DrumsDrum kitA drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
(Also in: Memory GardenMemory GardenMemory Garden is a doom metal and heavy metal band from Kumla, Sweden. They were signed to Metal Blade Records until 2002, and signed with Vic Records in 2006....
, Memento MoriMemento Mori (band)Memento Mori was a Swedish doom metal band with power metal influences. The band was founded by Messiah Marcolin and Mike Wead in 1992 after Messiah left Candlemass. After two albums, however, Messiah left the band; the third album was sung by a different singer. For the fourth album, Messiah...
) - Erik Oskarsson (25 December 2000–present): BassBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
(Also in: Godsend)
Discography
- 1995 - The Breathing ShadowThe Breathing ShadowThe Breathing Shadow is the debut album from Nightingale. It was recorded and mixed within the span of a week by Dan Swanö alone at his Unisound studio. In this album, Nightingale did not yet consist of a band, and was simply a solo project by Dan Swanö...
- 1996 - The Closing ChroniclesThe Closing ChroniclesThe Closing Chronicles is the second studio album by the Swedish progressive/AOR metal/rock band Nightingale, released by Black Mark Productions in 1996. The album continues the story begun on The Breathing Shadow...
- 2000 - II (Nightingale album)I is the third full-length studio album by the Swedish progressive/AOR metal/rock band Nightingale. The album is a prequel to The Breathing Shadow story from the first two albums...
- 2003 - Alive AgainAlive Again (Nightingale album)Alive Again is the fourth full-length studio album by the Swedish progressive/AOR metal/rock band Nightingale.Subtitled "The Breathing Shadow, Part IV", it is the last album completely devoted to The Breathing Shadow story....
- 2004 - InvisibleInvisible (Nightingale album)Invisible is the fifth full-length studio album by the Swedish progressive/AOR metal/rock band Nightingale. The track "Still Alive" is the end of the Breathing Shadow story...
- 2005 - Nightfall Overture (Re-recorded versions of previously released songs)
- 2007 - White DarknessWhite Darkness (album)White Darkness is the latest studio album by the Swedish rock band Nightingale, released by Black Mark Productions in 2007. The song-writing on the album has been mainly done by Dan's brother Dag Swanö, with Dan himself only contributing the rare lyric or bridge.-Track listing:# "The Fields of...
- TBA - Bravado
External links
- Official Dan Swanö/Nightingale Forum
- Nightingale on Progboard: Nightingale albums reviews and ratings
- Dag Swanö's site