Paatos is a Swedish

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 rock

Rock and roll

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 band that was formed in 1999

1999 in music

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 by Reine Fiske and Stefan Dimle

Stefan Dimle

Stefan Dimle is the bassplayer 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 floating rock festival named the Melloboat which are held aboard the ship Galaxy...

 (both previous members of Landberk

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 equally as important as the guitar in their melodies...

), Petronella Nettermalm, Ricard Nettermalm and Johan Wallen. Paatos is usually classified as progressive rock

Progressive rock

Progressive rock is a subgenre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s as part of a "mostly British attempt to elevate rock music to new levels of artistic credibility." John Covach, in Contemporary Music Review, says that many thought it would not just "succeed the pop of...

, albeit influenced by bands such as Portishead and Massive Attack

Massive Attack

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History

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

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 equally as important as the guitar in their melodies...

, and Ricard Nettermalm and Johan Wallen of the band Agg. The band appeared at a folk rock

Folk rock

Folk rock is a musical genre combining elements of folk music and rock music. In its earliest and narrowest sense, the term referred to a genre that arose in the United States and the UK around the mid-1960s...

 festival with Turid Lindqvist and later recruited vocalist Petronella Nettermalm, Ricard's wife. Reine Fiske was replaced by Peter Nylander on guitar 2003.

The band released the EP

Extended play

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 Tea/Perception in spring 2001. The following year, the band composed and performed music for the soundtrack of the festival film Nosferatu, and released their debut album, Timeloss. The album was mixed in Atlantic Studios

Atlantic Studios

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 by Jan Hansson.

Tea and Perception finally were recorded live on Goran Freeses studio and was launched as an EP with the same name: Tea/Perception (2001), in the beginning of the spring of 2001.

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.

Discography

• Perception/Tea (EP, 2001)
• Timeloss
  Timeloss
  Timeloss is the first studio album by the Swedish progressive rock band Paatos.-Track listing:# Sensor # Hypnotique # Téa # They Are Beautiful # Quits -External links:* retrieved 8-12-07...
  
  (full-length, 2002)
• Kallocain
  Kallocain (album)
  -CD Track Listing:# "Gasoline" # "Holding On" # "Happiness" # "Absinth Minded" # "Look At Us" # "Reality" # "Stream" # "Won’t be Coming Back" # "In Time"...
  
  (full-length, 2004)
• Silence of Another Kind
  Silence of Another Kind
  -Track listing:# "Shame" - # "Your Misery" - # "Falling" - # "Still Standing" - # "Is That All?" - # "Procession of Fools" - # "There Will Be No Miracles" - # "Not a Sound" -...
  
  (full-length, 2006)
• Sensors
  Sensors (album)
  Paatos is the first live album and the fifth release overall by the Swedish progressive rock band Paatos.-Track listing:# Happiness – 5:26# Your Misery – 5:20# Gasoline – 5:14# Téa – 6:09# Hypnotique – 7:14...
  
  (live album, 2008)
• Breathing (full-length, 2011, on Glassville Records)