Official Realm of PHANATOS

ABOUT THE COMPOSER

Behind the name Phanatos stands 31-year-old composer F. Andersson (Linköping, Sweden). Andersson took piano lessons in his youth, but eventually discovered it was more and more stimulating to play own stuff than to pracite the "home-works". There was early a love affair with the composing activity. Besides the keys Andersson has also a background as drummer, in various groups around the midst of the 90's.

Except from the piano lessons in the youth Andersson is completely autodidact.

"I have walked my own path and discovered the music my own way... For me composing and creating musical themes and concepts is much about lust, and a wish to express emotions - I don't see how that can be taught. For me it's something that comes from inside. But also of course from outer influences/inspirations, but the main incitement and reason for my musical art is something derived from my mind and heart."

Besides Phanatos Andersson is also a composer of film music and has been author (and artist) of own other projects within different genres, played on Swedish national radio and MTV.

ABOUT PHANATOS

This musical alter ego was formed around 1999 when the first ideas for making music within this concept was born. The idea and "lust" was to make music with much emotions, based on love (lost love too) and passion, but also more "dark emotions" as melancholy and hopelessness - and with the alchemy of creative activity turning these emotions into an artistic expression - music...

"I always - from the early ideas up to this day - work really hard with my music. I'm ultra-serious about what I create and put lots and lots of soul, compositional effort and time (literary hundreds of hours) in my music".
The hard work put in the music is something which has been reflected in good reviews of it, and much nice feedback from people who have embraced it, sometimes even moving people to tears."

Phanatos has composed two extensive opuses; the first (untitled) opus which was conceived and released during 2000-2005, and the eight piece "Opus 2" released as CD in 2007. This CD was mastered by Peter In de Betou (Dimmu Borgir, Katatonia, Draconian etc.) and released by Phanatos Productions. Besides that some singles has been put out, all with the deep compositional effort which always applies to Phanatos' music. For the CD "Opus 2" Phanatos also created a literary part which was to function as a parellel experience to the music. "Tales of Love and Mystery" is a booklet containing short stories and poetry all written as to widen the depth to the themes in the music.

The "Opus 2" CD, 2007

"I often have a certain feeling when I create my art. It can be a special mood, or that I see some kind of inner picture inside of my mind. I guess all art is really about expressing something, turning your soul a bit inside out. It can be explicit feelings/mind activity but also subconscious stuff that bubbles up to the surface, not unlike the function of dreams (and nightmares too sometimes). Both my first and second opus is very personal to me, it deals a lot with my struggle of re-building my own core of love."

In 2010 Phanatos releases "Maeror Meus" which is both a limited single
and a six piece EP. This will be a new one man excursion even perhaps more than ever within the neoclassical field. But all with the special sign of Phanatos of course.

In the pipeline is more new music and releases of Phanatos, not least the "La oscuridad del Amanecer" EP (the song on the introductory page taken from this work) which will be released as soon as there is economical possibility for that. It's up to you world!

ABOUT SUPPORTING THE COMPOSER/ARTIST

The best way to support Phanatos is to buy the music. Besides finding the "Opus 2" CD in some online shops you will find ALL Phanatos musical art in the online shop on this website.

"Money is of course not the most important thing in the world (love is) but it's something necessary to be able to put the hundreds of hours of hard work that I put in my productions, and to be able to promote it, and cover the production expenses generally."

So if you like the music - support the composer and buy it. That helps out in the quest of releasing more music, and not least do you get to hear the whole works as intended.

ABOUT THE SITE

This site version was launched in winter 2008.
Phanatos.com has been online since 2004.
Site production (layout and design) by: Phanatos Productions
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Original introductory and top landscape photo: UmbraDeNoapte-Stock
Texture: Cameron Gray
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