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Brave Yester Days
''Brave Yester Days'' is the first compilation album by Swedish heavy metal band Katatonia. It contains the material from Katatonia's older era, mainly consisting of death/doom material, and a few alternative rock songs. "Black Erotica" is an earlier version of "12" from ''Brave Murder Day'' and "Untrue" is a previously unreleased song from the ''Sounds of Decay'' sessions. Reception Eduardo Rivadavia from AllMusic said that the compilation displays "Katatonia's gradual shift away from their doom/death origins" to a sound featuring "lighter guitars, incremental keyboards, and the replacement of deathly growls with clean-sung, melodic vocals" and called the album "an astoundingly well-conceived summary of Katatonia's purely metallic career" and "a frankly unbeatable bang-for-buck proposition when it comes to housing so many scattered releases under one roof." Track listing Credits ;Katatonia * Lord Seth (on '' Jhva Elohim Meth'') / Lord J. Renkse (on ''Dance of D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katatonia
Katatonia are a Swedish heavy metal band formed in Stockholm in 1991 by Jonas Renkse and Anders Nyström. The band started as a studio-only project for the duo, as an outlet for the band's love of death metal. Increasing popularity led them to add more band members for live performances, though outside of the band's founders, the lineup was a constantly changing, revolving door of musicians throughout the 1990s, notably including Mikael Åkerfeldt of the band Opeth for a period. After two death/doom albums, ''Dance of December Souls'' (1993) and ''Brave Murder Day'' (1996), problems with Renkse's vocal cords coupled with new musical influences led the band away from the screamed vocals of death metal to a more traditional, melodic form of heavy metal music. The band released two more albums, ''Discouraged Ones'' (1998) and ''Tonight's Decision'' (1999), before settling into a stable quintet lineup for all of the 2000s. The band released four more albums with said lineup: ''L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dance Of December Souls
''Dance of December Souls'' is the first full-length album by Katatonia. It was released on CD in 1993 by No Fashion Records and LP by Helion Records, released in the US in 1999 by Century Black. In 2004, record label Black Lodge reissued the album with all new artwork, but the band has stated on its website that it does not support this release for personal reasons. In 2007, the album was reissued, this time under Peaceville UK with a blue version of the original cover and all five songs from the '' Jhva Elohim Meth... The Revival'' EP appended as bonus tracks. In 2010, Svart Records released a double vinyl version, which also included all songs from the EP. This album is the first release with Guillaume Le Huche as the bassist; prior to it, Anders Nyström had been contributing all guitar and bass guitar. The sound mixes the band's later style of doom metal with genres such as death metal and black metal. Track listing * All music by Anders Nyström, all lyrics by Jon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Death Growl
A death growl, or simply growl, is an extended vocal technique usually employed in extreme styles of music, particularly in death metal and other extreme subgenres of heavy metal music. Death growl vocals are sometimes criticized for their "ugliness", but their unintelligibility contributes to death metal's abrasive style and often dark and obscene subject matter.Sharpe-Young, Garry. ''Death Metal'', Definition Death metal, in particular, is associated with growled vocals; it tends to be lyrically and thematically darker and more morbid than other forms of metal, and features vocals which attempt to evoke chaos, death, and misery by being "usually very deep, guttural, and unintelligible." Natalie Purcell notes, "Although the vast majority of death metal bands use very low, beast-like, almost indiscernible growls as vocals, many also have high and screechy or operatic vocals, or simply deep and forcefully-sung vocals."Purcell, Natalie J. ''Death Metal Music:The Passion and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikael Åkerfeldt
Lars Mikael Åkerfeldt (; born 17 April 1974)Mikael Åkerfeldt , Opeth – Official Website, Retrieved 3 June 2012 is a Swedish musician. He is the lead vocalist, guitarist, and primary songwriter of band , and the former vocalist of supergroup . He was also guitarist for the "one-off" band [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Swanö
Dan-Erland Swanö (born 10 March 1973), also known as Dan "The Man" Swanö, is a Swedish musician and record producer who is currently the vocalist, guitarist, ex-bassist and ex-drummer for the band Nightingale, lately vocalist, keyboardist and drummer for the band Witherscape, as well as the owner of Unisound, but he achieved fame as the vocalist and songwriter of progressive death metal band Edge of Sanity. As a multi-instrumentalist he is regarded as influential in the underground melodic death metal, black metal, progressive metal, death metal, progressive rock, and power metal communities. He is known for his progressive rock-influenced songwriting style and his frequent use of both clean and growled vocals. Career Swanö has fronted a number of bands, including Edge of Sanity, Brejn Dedd, Unicorn, Infestdead and Route Nine. He has also been a member of Katatonia and Ribspreader, as well as playing drums and lead guitar in death metal band Bloodbath. Swanö also partic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anders Nyström
Anders Nyström (born 22 April 1975), also known as Blakkheim (or formerly Blackheim), is a Swedish musician. Biography Nyström founded the Swedish metal band Katatonia with singer Jonas Renkse in 1991. Nyström is involved in the songwriting, backing vocals, keyboards, programming, arrangements, art direction and production of Katatonia along with Renkse. He used to be a member of the metal band Bewitched from 1995 to 1997 and is still with Jonas Renkse on the death metal project Bloodbath. He has released four albums as the solo black metal act Diabolical Masquerade (1993–2004). Discography With Diabolical Masquerade * '' Ravendusk in My Heart'' CD 1996 * ''The Phantom Lodge'' CD 1997 * '' Nightwork'' CD 1999 * '' Death's Design'' CD 2001 With Katatonia * '' Jhva Elohim Meth... The Revival'' (1992) (EP) * ''Dance of December Souls'' (1993) * '' For Funerals to Come...'' (1995) (EP) * ''Brave Murder Day'' (1996) * ''Sounds of Decay'' (1997) (EP) * ''Discouraged ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Screaming (music)
Screaming is an extended vocal technique that is popular in "aggressive" music genres such as heavy metal, punk rock, and noise music and others. It is common in the more extreme subgenres of heavy metal, such as death and black metal as well as many other subgenres. Genres Classical and experimental music Although screams are often suggested in stories performed in the grand opera tradition, they were never performed literally, always being sung. The first significant example of an actual scream in an opera is in Alban Berg's ''Wozzeck'' (1922), where the eponymous character screams "Murder! Murder!" in the fourth scene of Act III. Even more strikingly, Berg's unfinished ''Lulu'', written mainly in 1934, features a blood-curdling scream as the heroine is murdered by Jack the Ripper in the closing moments of the final scene. In Mascagni's 1890 ''Cavalleria rusticana'' the final line "They've murdered Turiddu!" is spoken, not sung, and often accompanied by a scream. Othe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonas Renkse
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Katatonia / Primordial
In 1996, a split 10" EP was released on Misanthropy Records consisting of one song each from Primordial and Katatonia. Primordial recorded a new version (often referred to as the "MCMXCVI" version of the song) of an old demo song, at Academy Studios in Yorkshire, exclusively for this release. Katatonia's song was recorded at Unisound Studios in Finspång, in February 1994. The EP was available only on purple vinyl format, limited to 777 copies. Track listing Personnel DO NOT CHANGE THE PERSONNEL, SEE discussion Katatonia * Jonas Renkse – vocals, drums * Blackheim – guitar * Le Huche (Guillaume Le Huche) – bass Production * Dan Swanö – mixing, engineering, production * Katatonia – production Notes *Katatonia's song was later featured on the ''Saw You Drown ''Saw You Drown'' is an extended play released by Katatonia in 1998, limited to 1500 handnumbered copies. In 2005, it was re-issued on clear/blue wax 10" LP in 1000 hand-numbered copies. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saw You Drown
''Saw You Drown'' is an extended play released by Katatonia in 1998, limited to 1500 handnumbered copies. In 2005, it was re-issued on clear/blue wax 10" LP in 1000 hand-numbered copies. The first two tracks are previews of the then-upcoming ''Discouraged Ones'' album, while "Quiet World" was recorded in the same Sunlight Studios 1997 session as ''Sounds of Decay'', and "Scarlet Heavens" was a hard-to-find 1994 recording originally issued on the 1996 Katatonia/Primordial Split 10". While all of the band's previous efforts utilized growled vocals almost exclusively, ''Saw You Drown'' begins the band's shift towards clean vocals. This release first shows on the album cover the band's changed & second logo, coinciding with the change in sound. Track listing #"Saw You Drown" – 5:02 #"Nerve" – 4:31 #"Quiet World" – 4:37 #"Scarlet Heavens" – 10:25 Personnel Katatonia * Jonas Renkse – lead vocals, drums * Anders Nyström – guitar; backing vocals & keyboards Keyboard may ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
For Funerals To Come
''For Funerals to Come...'' is the second EP by Swedish heavy metal band Katatonia, released in 1995. It was re-released on vinyl together with Brave Murder Day by Century in 2009 (150 orange and 350 yellow). It was re-issued again by Peaceville Records in November 2011. Track listing # "Funeral Wedding" – 8:40 # "Shades of Emerald Fields" – 5:24 # "For Funerals to Come..." – 2:50 # "Epistel" – 1:13 ;2011 track listing # "Funeral Wedding" – 8:40 # "Shades of Emerald Fields" – 5:24 # "For Funerals to Come" – 2:50 # "Epistel" – 1:13 # "Black Erotica" – 9:08 # "Love of the Swan" – 6:53 * Music by Nystrom * Lyrics by Renkse except "Shades of Emerald Fields" by Le Huche * "Black Erotica" and "Love of the Swan" were taken from the ''W.A.R. Compilation – Volume One'' album, which was released in 1995 by Wrong Again Records, recorded at Unisound Studios in June 1994 Personnel ;Band * Jonas Renkse – vocals, drums * Anders Nyström Anders Nyström (bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jhva Elohim Meth
''Jhva Elohim Meth'' is the debut EP by Swedish heavy metal band Katatonia, self-released in 1992. Holland label VIC Records re-released the EP on CD with the title ''Jhva Elohim Meth... The Revival'', and in 2000 in LP format. The band admit in their 20th anniversary documentary included on ''Last Fair Day Gone Night'' that the intended title uses the word Jehova but they could not remember how to spell it correctly. The track "Without God" was re-recorded for the band's 1993 debut album ''Dance of December Souls''. Track listing # "Midwinter Gates (prologue)" – 0:43 # "Without God" – 6:52 # "Palace of Frost" – 3:40 # "The Northern Silence" – 4:00 # "Crimson Tears (epilogue)" – 1:56 Personnel ;Band * Jonas Renkse – drums, vocals and lyrics * Anders Nyström – electric & acoustic guitars, bass and music ;Additional musicians * Dan Swanö – all acoustic vocals, keyboards Keyboard may refer to: Text input * Keyboard, part of a typewriter * Compute ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
