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Artist
Dan Johansen
12+ albums
Progressive metalinstrumentalPower metalmetalnorwegian
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Dan Johansen plays Instrumental, progressive metal with an ancient aura. His music contains various instruments, some ethnic touches, some synth work and a lot of orchestral arrangements. He composes in a story telling way, he always deeply interpret the meanings of the concept he is working with, whether it is self-written or inspired by old myth. He focuses very hard on being true to the emotions of the project(s) he is working on and he hopes that you can feel that as well when listening to his compositions. He grew up in Norway, in a family that is pretty musical, his mother has been singing all her life and he has a few uncles that play guitar and drums. So music has been around Dan most of his life. His true interest in music began when he heard the Kiss album Love Gun that Dan bought from a ''used-cd'' shop in the city of Kongsvinger in south-east Norway. He remembers being pulled against two bands, one being Kiss and the other being Oasis. He loved the song Wonderwall a lot in his early youth. He fell out of this era pretty quickly though after getting more Kiss CD's. When Dan was about 11-12, he borrowed his uncle's acoustic guitar and took guitar lessons for about 1 month learning only a few basic chords. He then lost interest and fell out of it totally when they moved to the middle of Norway. His brother, Frank, then introduced him to Metallica and Slayer and he showed me couple of licks from Fade To Black from the Ride the Lightning album of Metallica. Dan pract
