Dan Swanö out of Bloodbath

[batmura]

Here is his post on Bloodbath.biz

Hi there!!

I figured there would be a lot of questions circulating about "me out of Bloodbath" so I just would like to make a few comments before the rumours kicks in. I received an email from Blakkheim today where I saw that my services as a member of Bloodbath was no longer required.
I Must admit I didn´t see that one coming!! But... can totally see what the other guys are thinking about. (Tried to do the same to the E.O.S. guys in 97 .......but that one backfired pretty badly..ha, ha!!)

Blakkheim and Jonas are touring musicians, living off their metal and I would just be "in their way" with the constant "Sorry I can´t go on tour because bla bla bla", that´s cool.. Concerning the musical differences, I am a bit confused. As far as I can remember, I haven´t even discussed the direction of my future Bloodbath tracks. The announcement say that I tried to get Bloodbath in a Moontower/Crimson direction...that is not right...I have toyed with the idea to make a new album, using my own name, and revisit the style of those albums...oh yes...what is a bit funny is that I actually wanted to write a bit more brutal songs for Bloodbath the next time.

I got inspired by working with the Coldworker album and the urge to write some complex, fast fucken brutal death came creeping back. (I have not always written TRL-Death Metal u know.. Infestdead and some of the early E.O.S. material is kind of brutal, isn´t it???)

Anyway. I just wanted to clarify that I was NOT trying to pussify Bloodbath and therefore got kicked out...where this rumour came from and how the guys (without asking) just decided that I was on a
different level musically..remains a mystery.I wish the guys all the best and hope they ask nice if they can play my songs live for you guys

Dan Swanö

[derbeder]

i wonder what blakkheim says about this.

[Powers]

So is he pissed of at the band or not?

[batmura]

Dan's not pissed. He's always been an honest guy, but it sucks that he was fired the way he was.

Now Dan hopefully will do his own Crimson meets Moontower meets super heavy BB death metal project. He owns - and Bloodbath without Mike and Dan is simply not my thing. Besides, I've always said it before and I'll say it again: Dan is the BEST writer of the three.

[Liquid Diamonds]

You know, I think Anders and Jonas are better songwriters in general than Dan, but... his Bloodbath songs usually do it for me more than theirs do... this decision is odd, I'm not sure I see Bloodbath prospering with, essentially, a line up of 2 people.

[CAIRATH]

I don't understand why they are so busy keeping Bloodbath alive anyway. It was fun for a few albums but it's not like they were doing anything earth shattering and I don't think they ever will. Considering the talent that has passed in and out of that group, I'd rather see them doing something new and more impressive than continuing to plagiarize late 80's/early 90's Swedish death metal.

[Larsson]

Originally Posted by CAIRATH

I don't understand why they are so busy keeping Bloodbath alive anyway. It was fun for a few albums but it's not like they were doing anything earth shattering and I don't think they ever will. Considering the talent that has passed in and out of that group, I'd rather see them doing something new and more impressive than continuing to plagiarize late 80's/early 90's Swedish death metal.

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[BreathingShadow]

they need to drop bloodbath and bring back diabolical masquerade

[FUBAR]

Originally Posted by BreathingShadow

they need to drop bloodbath and bring back diabolical masquerade

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[the_drip]

its becomign obvious that bloodbath will never get the time it needs to become a fulltime band..they should just do what they've done in the past....when free time arises record an album...play a couple festivals..then get back to their real deal bands.

[NFU]

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