Pan.Thy.Monium was a Swedish avant-garde/death metal band created in 1990 and led by Dan Swanö with several members from another project of his, Edge of Sanity. At this time Dan was going through a crisis and expressed his feelings through the music of Pan.Thy.Monium. The goal was to confuse the listener, so that one can follow his emotions. He constructed the virtual god Raagoonshinnaah, the god of darkness, rain and emptiness, which is the counterpart for his mood.