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  • Archive Panic: Dan Swano is not a lazy man. He has his hands in dozens of different side projects, produces and even played drums for countrymates Katatonia on their Tonight's Decision album.
  • Complete Monster: The Crimson Queen is the Big Bad of Crimson & Crimson II. The first-born child for a decade after the world has been rendered infertile, masquerades as a messiah and a symbol of hope, the Queen is in reality a willing servant of Hell. She first wipes out the elders, scientists preserved for their knowledge, to prevent humanity from being able to breed again. She locks up her predecessor in a crimson tank to be tortured for years, and takes pleasure in the sound of his screams. Told by her master that she will leave the world defiled, she enacts a plan to exterminate the last of humanity. She uses her mind-control powers to trick her loyal court into killing themselves in front of their loved ones, condemning their souls to a Fate Worse than Death. When humanity gathers together to oppose her, the Queen sends her knights to kill everything they come across and attempts to fuse the mortal world and hell together to rule over all that remains, before being defeated and imprisoned. In Crimson II, after her spirit is released by an unsuspecting nun and she is reborn as a baby, she holds an entire monastery under mind control, and drives anyone who suspects her identity into insanity. When a group of the nuns attempt to imprison her again seven years later, the Queen tries to murder every single one of them, including the one who released her.
  • Overshadowed by Awesome: None of the band members (perhaps unfairly) are regarded anywhere near as highly as Dan Swanö.
    • Also, every album without "Crimson" in its title.
  • Tough Act to Follow: Again, Crimson, which is probably why the band broke up not long after its release.
    • Same could be said with the band's return in 2003 when Swanö released a sequel to Crimson only for the band to cease yet again.

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