KATATONIA · Discouraged Ones | DIGIPAK CD
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Product information "KATATONIA · Discouraged Ones | DIGIPAK CD"
CD in digipak incl. 2 bonustracks.
Background information about 'Discouraged Ones'
There is a moment on "Discouraged Ones" where the guitars stop raging and simply start to ache, and Katatonia never looked back. Released in 1998, this is the record where the Swedes walked away from the death-doom crypt they had built on "Dance of December Souls" and "Brave Murder Day" and stepped into something far colder and far more human: clean, wounded singing from Jonas Renkse, slow-motion riffs that hang in the air like breath in winter, and a rhythm section that understands silence is an instrument too. It is a grey record in the best possible sense — overcast, rain-soaked, gorgeous.
Listen to "I Break" and "Deadhouse" back to back and you can hear a band reinventing itself in real time, trading brutality for melancholy without ever losing the weight. "Gone" and "Saw You Drown" are the kind of songs that make a room feel smaller, and "Quiet World" drifts off like the last light of an afternoon. This is the blueprint that would later shape "Tonight's Decision" and "Last Fair Deal Gone Down", and honestly, few bands have ever made sadness sound this dignified.
For fans of: Opeth, Anathema, My Dying Bride, Paradise Lost, The Gathering, Porcupine Tree
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Track listing
- I Break
- Stalemate
- Deadhouse
- Relention
- Cold Ways
- Gone
- Last Resort
- Nerve
- Saw You Drown
- Instrumental
- Distrust
- Quiet World (Bonus)
- Scarlet Heavens (Bonus)
Manufacturer: Edel Music & Entertainment GmbH, Neumühlen 17, 22763 Hamburg, Germany, Contact: www.edel.com
| Artist: | Katatonia |
|---|---|
| Label/Manufacturer: | Peaceville Records |
| Product type: | CD |
| Genre: | Alternative Metal, Gothic Metal |
| Format: | CD, Digi CD |
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