Even Though Katatonia Are One Of My Very Favorite Rock & Roll Bands I Do Have A Complaint

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Nice, there's a good chance I'll be in Houston around that time for business. What are they like live nowadays? I've never seen a 'proper' Katatonia concert, the only time was an all-instrumental gig (due to voice problems, end of tour and all that) circa "For Funerals To Come", which is obv a while ago. Do they still have the old classics (Without God, Brave, etc) in their set?

Nice, there's a good chance I'll be in Houston around that time for business.

Hm! Anywhere else in the States you'll be?

siegbran in the states??? LOCK UP YOUR DAUGHTERS, AMERICA!

Of the old stuff, expect "Murder" at best. This is what they played in Madrid last month:

. Leaders
. Wealth
. Soil’s Song
. Deadhouse
. Teargas
. Ghost Of The Sun
. Criminals
. July
. Future Of Speech
. Tonight’s Music
. For My Demons
. Sleeper
. My Twin
. Evidence

Encore: Murder

I saw Katatonia when they came through with Moonspell and Daylight Dies a few months back. Really good set. Unfortunately, I had never heard any Katatonia before then, so I couldn't tell you what they played (of course, since then I've picked up Discouraged Ones and Brave Murder Day, so I've become a bit more familiar).

Looks like a nice setlist. Not too many "tortured artist" theatrics and posing?

Anywhere else in the States you'll be?

Probably only Houston for two or three days, hit & run. Would be nice to have a good night out there, usually there's little to do on trips like that other than drink yourself senseless in some fucked up hotel bar.

Katatonia played it pretty straight when I saw them, didn't move much at all. Moonspell were the ones that really hammed it up.

Looks like a nice setlist. Not too many "tortured artist" theatrics and posing?
Actually not, it surprised me that Nystrom has a total 80's metal image, if you saw him with the audio muted it would look like he is in Helloween or something. Ranske just stands, hair covering his face, and follows the beat slapping his thigh. Not a spectacular show but they sound great.

So I picked up Tonight's Decision the other night based on a) the Cure comparisons, b) listening to a lot of black metal lately, and c) Scott's unabashed raves on many threads. And, well, I'm sorry but with each listen I enjoy this album less and less. Doesn't sound like a far cry from Papa Roach, to my ears.

sorry! all i hear is truth beauty and awesomeness when i play it.

tonight's decision isn't my favourite of theirs, but there's still a lot of sincerity and stripped back emotion to the songs that really carries them. the downcast frame of mind is laboured, but that's kind of the point with this band.

personal faves remain last fair deal gone down (which is incidentally the most cure-addled) and the great cold distance.

i mean, "black session", "for my demons", heck, i love the whole album. i even like the jeff buckley cover. (i've never actually heard a heff buckley album.)

(i'd settle for a couple more october tide records.)

― scott seward, Wednesday, February 28, 2007 12:09 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark

alas, this hasn't happened, but they have reissued the first October Tide album. remastered apparently, but that stuff usually doesn't mean much to me. i love how it sounded originally.

http://www.nightisthenewday.com/
new album coming out in october on peaceville records

um, yeah, looking forward...

was these guys last album any good? gonna go check 'em out tonight. playing three blocks from my house.

the latest album isn't very good. stylistically it's similar to TGCD (which is incidentally a great record), but the songwriting is significantly weaker and i don't know, the formula just sounds stale on this one.

decided to listen to tonight's decision... tonight

anyway what a great fucking record, just a breathtaking expansion on discouraged ones in every way

(even though i prefer discouraged ones because i think there's something in their transition from a more traditionally doomy band to whatever-they-became-later (gothy alt-metal? god, that's not it) that is pretty totally singular. like i can't think of a record or a scene that sounds quite like discouraged ones)

What are they like live these days? It looks like recent setlists don't go back further than the last few albums.

read a bunch of fans repping for dead end kings as potentially the best katatonia album which i thought was interesting bc the two listens i gave that record felt really dull

i revisited it yesterday and i think i can start to see what they're talking about? in that the hooks definitely aren't there in the same way as past katatonia records but that's not the *~point~* i guess. some of the compositions are really interesting

i found it very dull

lol yeah i feel that obv. it's at least better than night is the new day, which makes me look forward to the new one

which

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIGBNc2nFZA

lol i actually really love this new song

i don't love it. they are like The Shoes now. making commercial music for years that nobody will hear.

i haven't bought an actual physical copy of an album since night is the new day. so, i am missing two. but i would buy them if i saw them in a store. and probably not listen to them much.

i might actually listen to the acoustic album they made if i bought it. kinda reminds me of the old anathema i like. or that opeth acoustic album. always liked that a lot.

idk the new song seems patient and moody in a way they haven't been in a while, albeit with a chorus melody that i wouldn't be surprised to hear in a power metal song (though that's not unusual for katatonia imo). the problem with night is the new day is that it kinda gets lost in its own busyness imo. might have something to do with the new new drummer

i'm talking a lot of shit about night is the new day but i wanted to clarify that "idle blood" rules

really love this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_o_j6v3PGE

imo the new one's their best since viva emptiness, much more varied in composition than dead end kings. it just feels like it moves more. however it might be too proggy. these are their longest songs since brave murder day. regardless the opening three tracks are all amazing, as are "residual" and "serac"

hahahahaha I just went to revive this thread to say "hey I bet Brad would like this album" and here we are

anyway it's really good!

oh sweet i was worried i was the only person who really liked the new one!

Been listening to Dance Of December Souls, never heard the band before but I've probably been meaning to for a decade, really liking the style. I really wish the ending section of "Tomb of Insomnia" was longer, it's gorgeous.

For Funerals To Come EP (including bonus tracks) is a bit of a letdown. Some nice things happen on it but I never properly dug any of the tracks.

Last Fair Deal also contains what is arguably the most reviled Katatonia songs by die-hard fans, "We Must Bury You".