The Closing Chronicles (Subtitled: The Breathing Shadow II) is the second studio album

Studio album

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 by the Swedish progressive

Progressive rock

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/AOR metal

Heavy metal music

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/rock

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 band Nightingale

Nightingale (band)

The band's latest album is White Darkness and it was released 4 June 2007.-Line-up:*Dan Swanö : Vocals, guitars, keyboards...

, released by Black Mark Productions

Black Mark Productions

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 in 1996. The album continues the story begun on The Breathing Shadow

The Breathing Shadow

The 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...

. Though it finds Swano moving into the 70's/AOR-orientated sound that would be the band's trademark, the music is not as bombastic as their later albums due to the songs' stark arrangements giving the album an introspective, melancholy feeling.

Track listing

1. "Deep Inside of Nowhere" - 7:12
2. "Revival" - 4:24
3. "Thoughts from a Stolen Soul" - 9:00
4. "So Long (Still I Wonder)" – 4:47
5. "Steal the Moon" - 3:17
6. "Intermezzo" - 4:22
7. "Alive Again" - 9:26
   1. The Release
   2. Shadowland Revisited
   3. Breathless

The End.

Credits

Nightingale

• Dan Swanö
  Dan Swanö
  Dan-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...
  
   : Vocals, Lead guitar
  Lead guitar
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  , Rhythm guitar
  Rhythm guitar
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  , Bass
  Bass guitar
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  , Keyboards & Drums
  Drum kit
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