Paatos is a

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band that was formed in

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Reine Fiske Nils Reine Fiske (born 4 October 1972) is a Swedish guitarist, art director and sound engineer at the record label Subliminal Sounds, who put his signature to many prog-rock projects such as Landberk, Morte Macabre, Paatos, Motorpsycho, Elephant ...

and

Stefan Dimle Stefan Dimle (born 7 June 1967 in Köping, Sweden) is the bass player in the progressive band Morte Macabre and he is a former member of Landberk and Paatos. He is the driving force in the company Mellotronen who also is the organiser of the floa ...

(both previous members of

Landberk Landberk was a Swedish prog/ art rock band, characterized by the dark, sombre tone of their music. They were notable for their utilisation of the mellotron, which was as important as the guitar in their melodies. They also recorded a cover vers ...

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, Ricard Nettermalm and Johan Wallen. Paatos is usually classified as

progressive rock Progressive rock (shortened as prog rock or simply prog; sometimes conflated with art rock) is a broad genre of rock music that developed in the United Kingdom and United States through the mid- to late 1960s, peaking in the early 1970s. Init ...

, albeit influenced by bands such as Portishead and

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History

Paatos was formed in 1999 by Reine Fiske and Stefan Dimle of the Swedish band

, and Ricard "Huxflux" Nettermalm and Johan Wallen of the band Agg. The band appeared at a

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festival with

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and later recruited vocalist Petronella Nettermalm, Ricard's wife. The band recorded their first single ''Perception/Tea'' in early 2001, and quickly put together material for their full-length debut, ''Timeloss'', released in 2002. The same year, the band composed and performed music for the soundtrack of the film ''Nosferatu''. Reine Fiske was replaced by Peter Nylander on guitar in 2003.
During this time, the band got noticed by British band

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and played a couple of concerts in Sweden as their opening act.

Steven Wilson Steven John Wilson (born 3 November 1967) is an English musician. He is the founder, guitarist, lead vocalist and songwriter of the rock band Porcupine Tree, as well as being a member of several other bands, including Blackfield, Storm Corrosio ...

went on to mix Paatos' next studio album, ''Kallocain'', released in the summer of 2004. After the release of third album ''Silence of Another Kind'', the band again provided the support for Porcupine Tree on the successful European ''Deadwing''-tour of 2006. Recordings of that tour appeared as the live album ''Sensors''. During a lengthy break from band activities, it was announced in April 2009 that Stefan Dimle and Johan Wallén had left Paatos. In December of the same year, it was announced that the band has a new member, bassist Ulf "Rockis" Ivarsson.New Paatos member
blogs.myspace.com 2009-12-19. Retrieved on 2010-1-21. The band released ''Breathing'' in February 2011. Later that year they went out on a European tour supporting

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.
''V'', released in 2012, marked the final studio sessions of the band.

Discography

* '' Perception/Tea'' (EP, 2001) * ''

Timeloss ''Timeloss'' is the first studio album by the Swedish progressive rock band Paatos Paatos is a Swedish rock band that was formed in 1999 by Reine Fiske and Stefan Dimle (both previous members of Landberk), Petronella Nettermalm, Ricard Net ...

'' (full-length, 2002) * ''

Kallocain ''Kallocain'' is a 1940 dystopian novel by Swedish novelist Karin Boye that envisions a future of drab terror. Seen through the eyes of the idealistic scientist Leo Kall, ''Kallocain'' is a depiction of a totalitarian world state. An important a ...

'' (full-length, 2004) * ''

Silence of Another Kind ''Silence of Another Kind'' is the third studio album by the band Paatos Paatos is a Swedish rock band that was formed in 1999 by Reine Fiske and Stefan Dimle (both previous members of Landberk), Petronella Nettermalm, Ricard Nettermalm and ...

'' (full-length, 2006) * ''

Sensors A sensor is a device that produces an output signal for the purpose of sensing a physical phenomenon. In the broadest definition, a sensor is a device, module, machine, or subsystem that detects events or changes in its environment and sends ...

'' (live album, 2008) * ''

Breathing Breathing (or ventilation) is the process of moving air into and from the lungs to facilitate gas exchange with the internal environment, mostly to flush out carbon dioxide and bring in oxygen. All aerobic creatures need oxygen for cellular ...

'' (full-length, 2011, on Glassville Records) * '' V'' (full-length, 2012, four new songs and four re-workings of old material)

References

External links

Official Paatos website
{{Authority control Musical groups established in 2000 Swedish progressive rock groups Inside Out Music artists