THE BLACK SESSIONS

Katatonia

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Progressive Metal

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Boxset/Compilation, released in 2005

Songs / Tracks Listing

CD1-01 Teargas 3:32
CD1-02 Right Into The Bliss 5:05
CD1-03 Criminals 3:47
CD1-04 Help Me Disappear 5:14
CD1-05 Nerve 4:30
CD1-06 The Future Of Speech 5:39
CD1-07 Ghost Of The Sun 4:07
CD1-08 I Am Nothing 4:37
CD1-09 Deadhouse 4:35
CD1-10 Passing Bird 3:38
CD1-11 Sleeper 4:08
CD1-12 Sulfur 6:23
CD1-13 No Devotion 4:49
CD1-14 Chrome 5:14
CD1-15 A Premonition 3:34

CD2-01 Dispossession 5:37
CD2-02 Cold Ways 5:23
CD2-03 Nightmares By The Sea 4:16
CD2-04 O How I Enjoy The Light 2:44
CD2-05 Evidence 4:36
CD2-06 March 4 3:53
CD2-07 I Break 4:22
CD2-08 For My Demons 5:43
CD2-09 Omerta 2:58
CD2-10 Tonight's Music 4:20
CD2-11 Stalemate 4:19
CD2-12 Wait Outside 3:38
CD2-13 Fractured 5:52
CD2-14 Sweet Nurse 3:56
CD2-15 Black Session 7:02

Live At Krakow, Poland

DVD-01 Ghost Of The Sun 5:28
DVD-02 Criminals 3:51
DVD-03 Teargas 3:17
DVD-04 I Break 4:14
DVD-05 I Am Nothing 4:36
DVD-06 Sweet Nurse 4:07
DVD-07 Tonight's Music 3:57
DVD-08 For My Demons 5:06
DVD-09 Chrome 5:04
DVD-10 Future Of Speech 5:16
DVD-11 Complicity 4:04
DVD-12 Burn The Rememberance 4:54
DVD-13 Evidence 5:08
DVD-14 Deadhouse 4:41
DVD-15 Murder 5:11

Line-up / Musicians

- Name / guitars
- Name / drums

Releases information

2CD compilation + 1DVD
DVD recorded at Krakow TV studio, Krakow, Poland, April 2003
Mixed at Studio 79, Stockholm, December 2003

Disc 1
Track #5, #9 taken from 'Discouraged Ones' CD 1998
Track #2, #8, #13, taken from 'Tonight's Decision' CD 1999
Track #1, #6, #10, #14 taken from 'Last Fair Deal Gone Down' CD 2001
Track #4 taken from 'Tonight's Music' EP 2001
Track #12 taken from 'Teargas' EP 2001
Track #3, #7, #11, #15 taken from 'Viva Emptiness' CD 2003
Disc 2
Track #2, #7, #11 taken from 'Discouraged Ones' CD 1998
Track #3, #8, #13, #15 taken from 'Tonight's Decision' CD 1999
Track #1, #10, #14 taken from 'Last Fair Deal Gone Down' CD 2001
Track #4 taken from 'Tonight's Music' EP 2001
Track #6 taken from 'Teargas' EP 2001
Track #5, #9, taken from 'Viva Emptiness' CD 2003
Track #12 previously unreleased, recorded during the 'Viva Emptiness' sessions

Thanks to karolcia for the addition
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KATATONIA The Black Sessions ratings distribution

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Review by Mellotron Storm
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KATATONIA have been releasing albums for 30 years now, and I feel they have three distinct periods when it comes to their style. The first two albums from '93 and '96 used extreme vocals and this was a band who were huge BATHORY fans, along with that British scene that included ANATHEMA's early stuff, along with PARADISE LOST and MY DYING BRIDE. I have a hard time with the early stuff, even if Mikael Akerfeldt guests on that second album "Brave Murder Day".

The next phase includes "Discouraged Ones" from '98, "Tonight's Decision" from '99, "Last Fair Deal Gone Down" from '01 and "Viva Emptiness" from '03. The extreme stuff is gone, this is just sad, beautiful music. "The Black Sessions" is a mini box set consisting of two cds, both over 68 minutes long. The music is from those four albums. A cool idea to focus on this period, and we also get a DVD from a show they did for Krakow TV in Poland, in April of '03. So two cds in their slip cases, a DVD in it's slip case, plus thick liner notes.

The liner notes are mostly the lyrics plus Travis Smith's incredible art work. Just a great package if your a KATATONIA fanboy. Each disc has 15 tracks all from those four albums, plus four songs from the two EPs they released during this period called "Tonight's Music" and "Tear Gas", both from '01. Two tracks from each of those two EPs are included by the way. The longest track is called "Black Session" at 7 minutes, and it's the only previously unreleased track on here, taken from the "Viva Emptiness" sessions.

This has been sitting on my shelf with my other KATATONIA cds for many years. Good to finally talk about it. While I'm not big on compilation albums, this one has merit with the four tracks from the two EPs and that unreleased song, plus the DVD. This would be great for someone new to the band. That period before they went into more of a Prog Metal style. I prefer "Last Fair Deal Gone Down" from the '98 to '03 era, but my favourite is "The Great Cold Distance" from 2006, the first of those Prog Metal records.

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