Grey Skies Fallen are set to release their 5th LP, Cold Dead Lands on January 24, 2020. The band turned to legendary producer/musician, Dan Swanö to mix and master the album in his Unisound Recordings studio in Germany.
Swanö has worked with recordings since his early teens and mixed and mastered hundreds of bands. Unlike some studios that specialize in a certain sound, Swanö understands how to attain sounds from bands from all over the spectrum. He impeccably finds exactly what each band envisions.
Aeon, Incantation, Evergrey, and November’s Doom are just a small sample of the bands he’s worked with.
Swanö is a multi-instrumentalist who has played in numerous bands including Bloodbath, Nightingale, Katatonia and masterminded the progressive death metal group, Edge of Sanity. More recently he played keyboards, drums and sang in Witherscape.
Dan proved the perfect fit for the melodic death/doom style created by Grey Skies Fallen on Cold Dead Lands.
Grey Skies Fallen guitarist/vocalist, Rick Habeeb comments on working with Swanö:
Swanö and I had been in touch via email since around 1998 or so. I remember writing to him before the release of our first album, talking about the possibility of working with him in some capacity, but it didn’t happen at the time. Here we are about 20 years later, and we finally are able to work with him.
Working with Dan was great, and virtually effortless. I sent him the files and said “here are the files,” with zero instructions for him. I knew this would come back sounding amazing, and of course, mere days later, here it was with nary a revision to be made.
I’d been listening to the rough mixes for a few months, so when we received the finished masters from Swanö, I was taken aback. The fine-tuning and polish he gave the record make it sound just as I had envisioned.
Dan is a legend, and also a great guy. It’s amazing when you can work with one of your heroes and they turn out to be a great dude.
Watch the lyric video for “Procession to the Tombs,” the first single from Cold Dead Lands.
Read more about Dan Swanö and Unisound: https://www.unisound.se/
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