KATATONIA

Release Year: 2007
Artist Origin: SWE
Style: melancholic dark emotional metal/rock

hands-down pure masterpiece marks a massive leap from depressive harmonious black/doom metal towards tender and melancholic, dark, gothic and emotional metal/rock, captured on this grandiose third studio full-length [1998] by genius Swedish entity: game-changing career turning point is marked by clean, suggestive vocals, thickly layered and damn infectious guitar riffs, much more compact way of composing, simplified rhythmics and sharp daggers from the past to spice this lullaby-like picture up - as a whole it sounds surprisingly cohesive, and makes these eleven cuts almost perfect, the milestone of soothing, hypnotizing genre!; recent three panel digipak re-issue comes with a remastered sound, updated design and features two Saw You Drown EP [1998] bonuses