Artist: KATATONIA
Album: DISCOURAGED ONES RE-RELEASE (DIGI)

Release date: 1998/ 2007
Media type: CD

Now re-mastered, this classic offering from Sweden’s Katatonia comes in the shape of ‘Discouraged Ones’, their third album, from 1998. This re-issue features bonus tracks in ‘Quiet World’ which comes from the Discouraged Ones recording session & ‘Scarlet Heavens’, a rare track dating all the way back to 1994.

‘Discouraged Ones’ was recorded July-August 1997 at the infamous Sunlight Studios by Fred Estby and Tomas Skogsberg (Entombed, Dismember, etc). The album saw a new direction change with the epic compositions of old replaced with stripped down, compact structures to make room for new vocal harmonies courtesy of Jonas Renkse (who also played drums on the album), putting an end to the growling vocal style from before and giving the band a broader appeal.

It was a breakthrough album for Katatonia in that the style & genre shift planted the seed of what the band still represent today as the pinnacle of dark, gothic rock/metal while still retaining an ethereal, trance like quality from their past compositions.

TRACKLIST:

1. I Break
2. Stalemate
3. Deadhouse
4. Relention
5. Cold Ways
6. Gone
7. Last Resort
8. Nerve
9. Saw You Drown
10. Instrumental
11. Distrust

Bonus tracks:

12. Quiet World
13. Scarlet Heavens