KATATONIA · The Great Cold Distance | CD

CD in jewelcase with 12 page booklet.

Background information about 'The Great Cold Distance'

There is a very specific kind of darkness that Katatonia perfected on "The Great Cold Distance", and it has nothing to do with theatrics. This is the sound of a band who long ago traded doom metal's funeral march for something far more insidious: melodies so gorgeous they sneak past your defenses before the melancholy lands. From the moment "Leaders" opens the record with that coiled, restless riff, you know you are in for a masterclass in restraint. Jonas Renkse never shouts for your attention, he simply pulls you closer, and the guitars of Anders Nyström and Fredrik Norrman weave around him like frost creeping across a windowpane.

What makes this album such a landmark in the Swedish band's catalogue is the songwriting. "My Twin" is the obvious gateway, a chorus that lodges itself in your skull for days, while "Soil's Song" and "Deliberation" show off the rhythmic muscle the band had quietly built up. "July" slows everything to a crawl and somehow becomes the most devastating moment here, and "Journey Through Pressure" closes the original album on a note of exhausted beauty. This expanded edition goes much further, stacking rare and alternate material on top: the "Opium Dub Version" of "My Twin", the brooding "Displaced", "Dissolving Bonds", "Code Against the Code", a 2012 remix of "Soil's Song" by Krister Linder, and the shimmering "Unfurl". For anyone who only knows the standard album, this is a genuine revelation, a chance to hear how much depth was hiding just beneath the surface.

For fans of: Opeth, Anathema, Paradise Lost, Porcupine Tree, The Gathering

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Track listing

1. Leaders
2. Deliberation
3. Soil's Song
4. My Twin
5. Consternation
6. Follower
7. Rusted
8. Increase
9. July
10. In The White
11. The Itch
12. Journey Through Pressure
13. My Twin (Opium Dub Version)
14. Displaced
15. Dissolving Bonds
16. Code Against the Code
17. Soil's Song (Krister Linder 2012 Remix)
18. Unfurl

Manufacturer: Edel Music & Entertainment GmbH, Neumühlen 17, 22763 Hamburg, Germany, Contact: www.edel.com