''Saw You Drown'' is an

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released by

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 ...

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 ''

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'' album, while "Quiet World" was recorded in the same Sunlight Studios 1997 session as ''

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'', 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

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. This release first shows on the

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the band's changed & second

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, 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 *

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–

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– guitar;

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(tracks 1–3) * Fredrik Norrman – guitar (1-3) * Micke Oretoft – bass (1-3) * Guillaume Le Huche – bass (4)

References

Katatonia EPs 1998 EPs Avantgarde Music EPs Albums produced by Dan Swanö {{1990s-rock-album-stub