Swedish metallers KATATONIA have confirmed details of their new band member drummer Daniel ’Mojjo’ Moilanen:
Vocalist Jonas Renkse recalls ”We first met Mojjo back in 2009 where his band at the time, Engel had joined up with us and Paradise Lost on a UK tour and we soon realized we shared the same musical background and ideals. We stayed in touch over the years and when Daniel Liljekvist quit Katatonia in 2014 we decided to give Mojjo a call. He has now been with us for well over a year, so far only as a live member, but now is the time for him to join the Katatonia album cycle and most importantly – make his own impression on our new material. We can’t wait to see what this will lead to. Love him up!”
Mojjo adds “From 1993 via 2009 to 2014, from today and onward into future battles. I am thankful, delighted and proud to take part in the next phase of Katatonia and I am looking forward to the journey being as giving as it has been for the last 22 years.”
KATATONIA have entered Stockholm’s Studio Gröndahl with engineer Karl Daniel Lidén to commence the recording of their 10th album. The new album is due out in 2016 on Peaceville Records and follows on from 2012 Peaceville album ‘Dead End Kings’.
More details on the band’s new album will be released in the coming weeks and months whilst fans can look forward to updates from the studio on their facebook page https://www.facebook.com/katatonia
Katatonia have confirmed live shows for 2016:
4-8 February – USA, 70,000 Tonnes Of Metal Cruise
29 April – Karmoygeddon festival – kopervik, Norway
19 June – Hellfest, Clisson, France
03 July– Tuska Festival, Helsinki, Finland
Plus fans can catch Anders Nystrom & Jonas Renkse when Bloodbath play in December:
16th December – Sweden – Stockholm, Debaser Strand
18th December – UK – London Electric Ballroom
The most significant alternative music festival in the Baltic region, DEVILSTONE (Lithuania), presents one of the main acts in this event: the progressive Swedes KATATONIA. Founded in 1991, KATATONIA is one of the most essential and successful bands in the whole Scandinavian Peninsula. Their openness and progressive melancholy had earned the band this kind of popularity.
KATATONIA’s name often figures among MY DYING BRIDE, PARADISE LOST, and ANATHEMA (who have already performed at DEVILSTONE!); however, the Swedes have surpassed their British comrades in conveying the beauty of gloom and negative emotions. KATATONIA’s early releases are defined as black/doom, a genre which has not been used to describe any other band up until the 90’s, and the band’s first album, Dance of December Souls, is named as this genre’s classic. As appropriate for true veterans, KATATONIA is far ahead from other melancholic music acts.
So far Devilstone 2015 line-up includes: Kataklysm, Maybeshewill, Suicidal Angels, Striker, Dust Bolt, Greenleaf, Radio Moscow, Lost Society, Motorama, The Vintage Caravan, Belzebong, Kontinuum, The Moth Gatherer, Förtress, Tombstones and many more. Find out more:Devilstone Line-Up
Swedish master of melancholy, KATATONIA, has launched a live video of the track “Day” from its upcoming concert film, Sanctitude, to be released in North America on March 31, 2015 (March 30 U.K. & RoW, April 3 Germany) via Kscope. The live video for “Day” is the first taste of what fans can expect from Sanctitude; it can be viewed below:
Katatonia’s Anders Nystrom comments on the release: “Day… something you wake up to, or at least have to pull through, over and over. Most of them you forget about, but a couple you maybe look back upon and wish to relive again.
“Unfortunately in reality, I’m afraid that’s not possible, at least not until Apple buys NASA and releases a new version of their Time Capsule backup machine and send people into the cloud and back into history to fetch an older version of their lives, but luckily for us, there’s a current control of our music that doesn’t need time travel.
“We have always felt that if there’s a need, we’re entitled to the freedom to give our old songs a makeover in the now rather than the never. So, in the making of ‘Sanctitude’ there was one song in particular that meant a great deal to us. In fact, it was our first song ever to feature entirely clean vocals accompanied by clean guitars and it was written and released right in the peak of our death metal years.
“The song stood out, but isolated itself into oblivion in the climate of heavier music. Therefore we wanted this song to get a second chance, to be re-discovered. Even 20 years later when performing it live for the first time, it appears the parks are still grey and look the same…”
Sanctitude will be released in four formats:
Blu-ray DVD in 5.1 surround sound plus ‘Beyond The Chapel’ documentary including brand new interviews with Anders Nystrom & Jonas Renkse.
CD/DVD package – audio / visual set including ‘Beyond the Chapel’ documentary.
Double LP (incl. download code)
Digital download (audio)
Sanctitude can be pre-ordered in physical formats via the Kscope web-store at: www.kscopemusic.com/store.
A Sanctitude teaser trailer can be seen on YouTube at:
Sanctitude was filmed and recorded in the stunning, candle-lit setting of London’s Union Chapel during Katatonia’s May 2014 ‘Unplugged & Reworked’ tour – an intimate acoustic evening performing tracks from the Dethroned & Uncrowned album alongside atmospheric classics from the band’s entire career, stripped and reworked. The 80 minute set features 17 songs across the albums The Great Cold Distance, Viva Emptiness, Brave Murder Day, Last Fair Deal Gone Down, Dead End Kings and Dethroned & Uncrowned, including fan favorite, “Teargas.” The show closes with the sublime “The One You Are Looking For Is Not Here” and a special guest appearance by Norwegian vocalist Silje Wergeland of Dutch legend, The Gathering. The band was also joined on guitar and vocals by The Pineapple Thief frontman and songwriter, Bruce Soord.
All audio on Sanctitude has been mixed and mastered by Bruce Soord, with artwork once more supplied by long-time visual collaborator Travis Smith.
DISC 1:1. In The White
2. Ambitions
3. Teargas
4. Gone
5. A Darkness Coming
6. One Year From Now
7. The Racing Heart
8. Tonight`s Music
9. Sleeper
10. Undo You
11. Lethean
12. Day
13. Idle Blood
14. Unfurl
15. Omerta
16. Evidence
17. The One You Are Looking For Is Not Here
DISC 2:Concert Film (80 mins)
Documentary `Beyond The Chapel` (66 mins)
Katatonia was formed in 1991 by Anders Nyström and Jonas Renkse. Its debut album, Dance of December Souls, was released in 1993, gaining the band recognition for its eclectic brand of gothic doom/death metal and joining acts such as Paradise Lost and My Dying Bride as one of the genre’s defining bands. On future albums, a newer, sleeker Katatonia sound came to the fore, starting with a streamlined and structured collection of melodic dark rock songs that became third album, Discouraged Ones, which is widely regarded as the main evolution point for modern day Katatonia.
In September 2013, Kscope released Dethroned & Uncrowned, a reworking of the band’s 2012 epic Dead End Kings (originally released on Kscope’s sister label Peaceville). Dethroned & Uncrowned allowed Katatonia the opportunity to explore a more progressive sound, creating new moods and textures while still staying truthful to the core of the original songs.
Stay tuned for more information on Katatonia and Sanctitude, out this month on Peaceville.
Sweden’s KATATONIA are set to release their new concert film Sanctitude on 30th March UK & RoW / 31st March USA & Canada / 3rd April Germany.
In September 2013 Kscope released Dethroned & Uncrowned, a reworking of the band’s 2012 epic Dead End Kings (originally released on Kscope’s sister label Peaceville). Dethroned & Uncrowned allowed Katatonia the opportunity to explore a more progressive sound, creating new moods and textures while still staying truthful to the core of the original songs.
Katatonia took Dethroned & Uncrowned on the road in Europe for the first time in May 2014 under the moniker ‘Unplugged & Reworked’. They presented an intimate acoustic evening, performing tracks from the album alongside atmospheric classics from their entire career, stripped and reworked. Each venue, on the tour, was carefully chosen for its unique atmosphere. They were joined on guitar & vocals by The Pineapple Thief frontman and songwriter Bruce Soord.
Sanctitude is a concert film filmed and recorded in the stunning candle-lit setting of London’s Union Chapel. The 80 minute set features 17 songs across the albums The Great Cold Distance, Viva Emptiness, Brave Murder Day, Last Fair Deal Gone Down and of course, Dead End Kings / Dethroned & Uncrowned, including fan favourite ‘Teargas’. The show closes with the sublime ‘The One You Are Looking For Is Not Here’ and a special guest appearance by Norwegian vocalist Silje Wergeland of Dutch legends The Gathering.
Katatonia’s Anders Nystrom comments on the release: “As a band we set out on uncharted waters but while apprehensive about the journey ahead our intentions couldn’t have been more genuine to undertake this beautiful experience. Sailing this project into harbour turned out to be bliss and has ultimately enriched all the members of Katatonia.”
All audio on Sanctitude has been mixed & mastered by Bruce Soord. With artwork once more supplied by long-time visual collaborator Travis Smith.
SANCTITUDE tracklisting:
DISC 1
1. In The White
2. Ambitions
3. Teargas
4. Gone
5. A Darkness Coming
6. One Year From Now
7. The Racing Heart
8. Tonight`s Music
9. Sleeper
10. Undo You
11. Lethean
12. Day
13. Idle Blood
14. Unfurl
15. Omerta
16. Evidence
17. The One You Are Looking For Is Not Here
DISC 2
Concert Film (80 mins)
Documentary `Beyond The Chapel` (66 mins)
Watch an exclusive trailer here:
Sanctitude is set to be released in four formats:
1. Blu-ray in 5.1 surround sound and 2.0 stereo plus ‘Beyond The Chapel’ documentary including brand new interviews with Anders Nyström & Jonas Renkse. Also includes download code for digital audio version.
2. CD/DVD package – audio / visual set including ‘Beyond the Chapel’ documentary.
3. Double LP (incl. download code for digital audio version).
4. Digital download (audio).
Sweden, Stockholm based KATATONIA has unveiled the track ‘July’, as featured on the upcoming ‘Last Fair Day Gone Night’ 2CD/2DVD release, due 15th September, via Peaceville Records. Check it out below.
‘Last Fair Day Gone Night’ features the Swedish dark rock/metal masters at their glorious best with this electrifying set from London’s esteemed Koko venue, with the band’s captivating performance captured on DVD with accompanying double audio disc of the whole concert. This special 4-disc set, released 15th September, also includes a full & extensive documentary charting the early days and subsequent rise of the prolific Swedes, as told in the words of band masterminds Jonas Renkse and Anders Nyström.
Recorded during a series of special celebratory shows to mark the band’s 20th anniversary during 2011’s ‘Last Fair Day Gone Night’ tour, founding members Anders Nyström & Jonas Renkse are joined by drummer Daniel Liljekvist, plus guitarist Per Eriksson and bassist Niklas Sandin, for an exhilarating evening fuelled by a rich & extensive set of Katatonia tracks both past & present. Also includes a special 10th anniversary performance of the landmark 2001 album ‘Last Fair Deal Gone Down’ in its entirety. Artwork comes courtesy of long-time collaborator Travis Smith.
‘Last Fair Day Gone Night’ is presented in deluxe mediabook packaging, including an additional 20 page booklet. ORDER YOUR COPY HERE
KATATONIA is to release on September 15th a special 4-disc CD/DVD Set “Last Fair Day Gone Night”, via Peaceville, recorded at London’s Koko & features full audio, footage plus extensive band documentay.
‘Last Fair Day Gone Night’ features the Swedish dark rock/metal masters at their glorious best with this electrifying set from London’s esteemed Koko venue, with the band’s captivating performance captured on DVD with accompanying double audio disc of the whole concert. This special 4-disc set, released 15th September, also includes a full & extensive (136 minutes) documentary charting the early days and subsequent rise of the prolific Swedes, as told in the words of band masterminds Jonas Renkse and Anders Nyström. Recorded during a series of special celebratory shows to mark the band’s 20th anniversary during 2011’s ‘Last Fair Day Gone Night’ tour, founding members Anders Nyström & Jonas Renkse are joined by drummer Daniel Liljekvist, plus guitarist Per Eriksson and bassist Niklas Sandin, for an exhilarating evening fuelled by a rich & extensive set of Katatonia tracks both past & present. Also includes a special 10th anniversary performance of the landmark 2001 album ‘Last Fair Deal Gone Down’ in its entirety. Sleeve artwork comes courtesy of long-time collaborator Travis Smith.
Fans can get a taster of the 2 DVDs here:
This edition of ‘Last Fair Day Gone Night’ is presented in deluxe mediabook packaging, including an additional 20 page booklet.Katatonia was formed in 1991 by Anders Nyström and Jonas Renkse. Their debut album, ‘Dance of December Souls’, was released in 1993, gaining the band recognition for their eclectic brand of gothic doom/death metal and joining acts such as Paradise Lost and My Dying Bride as one of the genre’s defining bands. On future albums a newer, sleeker Katatonia sound came to the fore, starting with a streamlined and structured collection of melodic dark rock songs that became third album ‘Discouraged Ones’ which is widely regarded as the main evolution point for modern day Katatonia.
‘LAST FAIR DAY GONE NIGHT’ TRACKLIST
CD 1 – Audio from Koko set I
DISPOSSESSION
CHROME
WE MUST BURY YOU
TEARGAS
I TRANSPIRE
TONIGHT’S MUSIC
CLEAN TODAY
THE FUTURE OF SPEECH
PASSING BIRD
SWEET NURSE
DON’T TELL A SOUL
CD 2 – Audio from Koko set II
BRAVE
RIGHT INTO THE BLISS
THE PROMISE OF DECEIT
NEPHILIM
THE LONGEST YEAR
JULY
NEW NIGHT
MY TWIN
I BREAK
WAIT OUTSIDE
DISSOLVING BONDS
FORSAKER
DVD 1
Last Fair Day Gone Night Concert Film
DVD 2 – Katatonia Documentary – 136 minutes
A 20th Year Flashback Documentary
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