When Dan Swanö began making records under the Nightingale monicker in the mid-1990s, it looked a lot like another side-project; one of the many pies he had his fingers in, from producing Opeth’s first two albums to fronting prog metal pioneers Edge Of Sanity and drumming in Mikael Åkerfeldt’s death metal supergroup Bloodbath.
But Nightingale slowly grew into a more lasting proposition. Debut concept set The Breathing Shadow (1995) was a studio creation which multi-instrumentalist Swanö put it together solo in a week. Then brother Dag came on board for follow-up The Closing Chronicles the following year.
