KATATONIA

Release Year: 2020
Artist Origin: SWE
Style: emotional progressive melancholic atmospheric metal

each time when new recording is popping up, it is natural to predict what to expect from this bastion of cold melancholy with shades of gray aplenty, yet with this opus notorious Swedish entity uncover their collective sleeve with sweeping ideas, surprising with music's dynamics, as if someone would have remodeled their engines or installed new rhythm program into creative schemes - perhaps it is newly joined guitar player Roger Öjersson bringing sharper heavy metal crosswinds, but it looks like the entire crew is stretched and feels more than great pumping new hits in a livelier and way louder manner, while hypnotizing voice of Renkse and autumnal vibe perfectly complement multifaceted sound picture with a dramatic kaleidoscope of emotions; British first press digipak edition comes with sixteen page booklet