''Dance of December Souls'' is the first full-length album 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 ...

. 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 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 songwrit ...

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 Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. Common traits include fast tempos, a shrieking vocal style, heavily distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, raw (lo-fi) recording, unconventional song structures, and an emp ...

Track listing

* All music by

, all lyrics by

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Personnel

Katatonia *

– vocals, drums, percussion *

– guitars * Guillaume Le Huche – bass Additional musicians * Dan Swanö – keyboards Production * Dan Swanö – mixing and engineering * Peter Dahl – mastering * Tom Martinsen – cover design, photos * Lennart Kaltea – photos

References

{{Authority control Katatonia albums 1993 debut albums Albums produced by Dan Swanö Black metal albums by Swedish artists