BW&BK Exclusive: THRESHOLD - Keyboardist Reveals Details Of DAN SWANÖ's Guest Appearance On New Album
February 18, 2007, 17 years ago
BW&BK; recently caught up with THRESHOLD keyboardist Richard West to discuss the band's new album, Dead Reckoning. The following is a brief excerpt from the story that will appear in BW&BK; #103, with West revealing how vocalist/producer Dan Swanö (EDGE OF SANITY, NIGHTINGALE) ended up doing guest vocals on the tracks 'Slipstream' and 'Elusive':
“Originally we were thinking of asking Anders Friden from In Flames but never actually got in touch with them," says West. "Then I heard the latest Soilwork album, Stabbing The Drama, which is a fantastic album - and I think Speed is a great vocalist - so I went to meet them when they played the UK to talk to him about doing the vocals. It was an amazing show, they were really nice guys, but Speed told me he had been guesting on so many things in the last year that he just couldn’t do any more. He was getting bad press because of it and his fans were saying he was spreading himself too thin so he turned us down, which is a shame because his voice would have been great on those songs. We reached the day before we had to mix and we still had no one; my demo vocal was in there, which was okay but nothing amazing. When we were in the studio, though, Clive Nolan from Arena popped in and suggested we try Dan, who was a friend of his. We didn’t know who Dan was but we decided to give it a go. Clive emailed him, Dan said it was fine and had Clive send him the files. The very next day Dan sent us 80 files with every different style of growling he came up with for those lines, especially for ‘Elusive’, which was amazing. We took the ones we liked best and added them to the songs. Dan is a great guy, and very professional on top of it all.”As previously reported, Dead Reckoning will be released on March 23rd (US release March 20th) through Nuclear Blast Records.
The tracklist is as follows: 'Slipstream', 'This Is Your Life', 'Elusive', 'Hollow', 'Pilot In The Sky Of Dreams', 'Fighting For Breath', 'Disappear', 'Safe To Fly', 'One Degree Down'.
