Katatonia
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Topic: Katatonia
Posted By: moe_blunts
Subject: Katatonia
Date Posted: June 18 2009 at 19:13
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Wonderful Swedish band whose sound ranges from Doom inspired Death Metal to Gothic/Depressive Rock. The band has been active since the early 90s and, quite frankly, I was surprised to find no thread on them already. Anyways, one of the most appealing aspects of their music is their catchy choruses. Blakkheim (a member of both Diabolical Masquerade and Bloodbath) has such a tasteful sense of melody. mmmm Anyways, discuss. http://%20%20www.myspace.com/katatonia - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIim3zXRDz4 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIim3zXRDz4 http://%20www.myspace.com/katatonia - http://www.myspace.com/katatonia ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/moe_blunts/?chartstyle=minimalDarkRecent"> 
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Posted By: Visitor13
Date Posted: June 19 2009 at 13:13
| I only have Discouraged Ones, but it's an excellent release. The stuff on their Myspace is great as well, so delicously bleak, and, as you say, very catchy without being annoying. |
Posted By: moe_blunts
Date Posted: June 19 2009 at 14:18
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I've listened to Last Fair Deal Gone Down 4 times in the past couple of days. That album is really growing on me.
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Posted By: Moatilliatta
Date Posted: June 19 2009 at 14:37
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I do quite like Viva Emptiness and The Great Cold DIstance. There isn't a whole lot of variety in their song structures, though (at least in their recent works), so I have a tough time getting through full albums. They do however, sound awesome and they write good songs. My particular favorite is "Burn the Remembrance." ------------- www.last.fm/user/ThisCenotaph  
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Posted By: angelmk
Date Posted: June 19 2009 at 20:20
| i like Katatonia , their first two albums Dance of december souls ,and brave murder day are excellent doom/death metal, and later they change style and my favourite from depressive/atmospheric rock era is viva emptinesss, the Great Cold Distance is very good album though |
Posted By: Visitor13
Date Posted: June 20 2009 at 03:33
| Any recommendations for similar bands? |
Posted By: Synchestra
Date Posted: June 20 2009 at 06:19
I think Anathema can be quite similar, if only for the fact they started as Doom and slowly turned into a much more melodic/'soft' band, although katatonias 'soft' side is still pretty heavy  Both great bands though, and Mikael Akerfeldt growling on one of their albums = instant respect  ------------- 'Yeah, thats.. Whatever you're talking about for ya' - Zapp brannigan |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: June 20 2009 at 06:22
Opeth, Anathema, My Dying Bride and Paradise Lost are the four generally associated with them (they were all Peaceville artists at one time or other) ------------- What? |
Visitor13 wrote:Posted By: Visitor13
Date Posted: June 20 2009 at 06:28
| Ok, thank you both, but I'm well familiar with those and I'd be more interested in newer/less well-known acts (I should have specified that earlier). |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: June 20 2009 at 06:33
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^ Then Sentenced would also be too well known I assume
Beseech, To/Die/For or Draconian wwould be my next guess. ------------- What? |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: June 21 2009 at 15:46
I recommend Dark Suns - I've listened to two of their albums - Existence - 2005 and Grave Human Genuine - 2008. I think one could consider Katatonia, Anathema and Opeth as their influences; nevertheless, these guys are pretty original IMO.
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Posted By: angelmk
Date Posted: June 22 2009 at 16:51
try Joyless , very dark gloomy rock
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Posted By: rogerthat
Date Posted: June 28 2009 at 01:08
| Maybe it's because I place Dance of December Souls on some sort of mythical pedestal, but I simply could never bite into their depressive rock phase, even Brave Murder Day sounded so bland and generic after DoDS. One band I can think of which went from doom to depressive and succeeded in impressing me more or less equally in both phases is Gathering and they are on PA too. |
Posted By: moe_blunts
Date Posted: June 28 2009 at 11:24
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I prefer Katatonia's later output. The choruses are just too damn catchy.
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Posted By: JayDee
Date Posted: June 29 2009 at 07:02
Try the band Consecration.
MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/consecr8 - Consecration ------------- 
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