KATATONIA

Release Year: 2004
Artist Origin: SWE
Style: melancholic dark emotional metal/rock

emotionally the grandiloquent 2001's longplay is as miserable and hopeless as Swedish purveyors of melancholy and despair have been on couple of previous recordings, but it is safe to say the band has stepped into highly sophisticated era of songwriting; while enigmatically fusing psychedelic rock, gothic and spaced-out doom metal, meshing Cure-like ambiance and guitar riffs into the metal fury, Katatonia expertly crafts thick multi-layered songs that effectively induce an altered state of consciousness; British re-issue comes with a remastered sound and three additional tracks from Teargas EP [2001] and Tonight's Music EP [2001]