Katatonia

[Baal]

Fotke su dojajne.

[Grobodan]

Bice to sve lepse u bukletu.

[KRANG]

nekako mi ne idu ove promo fotke uz njihov zvuk.

 

neke livade, groblje, krstovi.. izgleda kao da su dm bend.. na tom groblju su promo fotke radili entombed i atg, i njima je i stajalo.

 

katatonia ima skroz drugi senzibilitet. njima pi bolje stajala gradska svetla.

neki city noir..

ali su očigledno radili sa nekim metalskim fotografom koji samo za ovo i zna.

 

u svakom slučaju, moja poenta ovde da su im promo fotke neprikladne, i na taj način loše.

Edited December 22, 2005 by KRANG

[fiction]

bash pristaju...Boja je pogodjena 100%

[KRANG]

ne kapiraš ti to prijatelju.

[BodyRemover]

meni su kul ove slike, zgrade, fabrike, mostovi bi bili bas cliche...

[KRANG]

od ovog nema goreg klišea, a da ne pominjem (jer već sam pomenuo) da atg i entombed imaju potpuno iste slike na ovom istom groblju sa velikim krstom..

 

malo urbanog pejzaža bi mnogo bolje išlo uz njih..

 

kao ulver, carevi:

 

haha

[Buddha]

bio je urbani pejzaz na brave murder day.

 

i last fair deal gone down - cak su se ovaj put slikali na istom mestu (dva fabricka ovalna dimnjaka iza njih)

Edited December 22, 2005 by slowdiver

[Buddha]

Review

 

This sucker is released in March 2006 and lands on my desk as a surprise Christmas offering. To say I was looking forward to the new Katatonia album would be a huge understatement. They are one of the very few bands out there who genuinely have a 'sound' and therefore deserve enormous respect. They have developed rapidly into true giants. Transcending "Gothic" and "Doom" long ago, they have carved out their own genre and fostered a devoted fanbase in the process. It's a lonely musical landscape for Katatonia, simply because they are the only ones venturing into this virgin territory, and I'm sure they are ecstatic in their solitude.

If you know Katatonia all you really need to be assured of at this point is that they have stayed loyal to their craft. They have, naturally, pushed forward whilst absorbing a fresh palette of colours. It is 100% Katatonia and yet more so. Predictability got shown the door a long, long time ago, making Katatonia an act always ready with a surprise.

Let's talk about the word 'Heavy' for a moment. Katatonia simply own the word these days. The production is huge, this thing is built like the capital city on a planet choked with concrete and steel. Imagine an alien world without a shard of green and a population buckling under the weight of smog, filth, pollution and shit. Imagine a world of no prospects, no hope and a short miserable life of guaranteed pain and failure. Imagine that and you still have no concept of how unimaginably heavy Katatonia is these days.

Despite this all envoloping bleakness the band paradoxically tunes into the rarest, mercurial quintessence - great songs. 'The Great Cold Distance' has a higher quota of outstanding songs. When you realise that this in comparison to landmarks such as 'Tonight's Decision' and 'Viva Emptiness' it makes the achievement all the greater. Katatonia always excel against impossible odds it seems.

The urban poetry of Jonas Renske here eschews the previous awkward slippage into profanity of 'Viva' but hits home even harder. His words are always deeply personal, always cutting and enthralling. Listening to Renske's outpourings is the audio equivelent of that sick feeling watching humanity at its most impersonal and cruel.

Musically, 'The Great Cold Distance' ploughs a landscape polarized between gossamer and a fist. Each song is a story, each song bears little relation to its predecessor, all juxtapose fragility with monolithic heaviness. If you have followed the Katatonia journey thus far from 'Dance Of December Souls' you will appreciate that the band strides forward on subtlty. It's the details that make this band so engaging. Details that lay in wait, that rise upon repeated listens.

Picking individual highlights is nigh on impossible but opener 'Leaders' is simply massive, made all the more disturbing by the scything whispers of "Do you? Do you?, Do you?..." Renske at his most perceptive. The drums on this track are staggeringly strong. 'Deliberation' switches tack but again is just monstrous. 'Soil's Song' follows with equal authority, as does the infectious 'My Twin'. It is by this stage it becomes apparent that Katatonia has crafted an album in the old fashioned sense, a whole rather than a product to be dissected track by track. The word filler was never on the agenda and the entire work pulls the listener along in a tidal flow.

As with all Katatonia releases 'The Great Cold Distance' is not a one shot star turn. Not only do you need to listen to the record again and again the damn thing won't let you do otherwise. This is probably the only drug on the market that gives you a bigger high upon each hit. Just like 'Viva Emptiness', but play number ten (and you will reach that and beyond…) the album lives up to its title. There's a distance here that must be travelled. You don't need me to tell you where the adjectives 'Great' and 'Cold' come into the equation.

Dare I give this album of the year? Jesus, the year hasn't even started yet but who on earth could possibly top this?

 

Garry Sharpe-Young

[BodyRemover]

koliko je dugacak album baj d vej?

Edited December 22, 2005 by BodyRemover

[KRANG]

bio je urbani pejzaz na brave murder day.

 

i last fair deal gone down - cak su se ovaj put slikali na istom mestu (dva fabricka ovalna dimnjaka iza njih)

nja.. razlikuj urbani pejzaš od industrijskog.

 

ne sviđa mi se to..

 

@BR: dugačak je 84.5 MB.

 

HA!

[Sinstrel]

Slazem se sa Krangom ( ). Fotke i ako su odlicno obradjene, prilicno su klisheirane. Krstache i groblje mi bas odudaraju od Katatonie.

Ustvari... Sve fotografije sa crvenom bojom su idejno glupe. Eto tako.

[BodyRemover]

- sta si slusao danas?

 

- prvo 25MB nove katatonije a onda od zajebancije pustio 6MB nove madone.

[Buddha]

posle 20 slusanja omiljene su mi definitivno

1) My Twin

2) July

3) Soil's Song

[marcoman]

meni

1. soil's song

2. july

3. journey through pressure

 

album mi je malo mracniji od vive i dosta je slojevit, sto rece krang ima dosta za otkrivanje i posle mnogo slusanja

Edited December 26, 2005 by marcoman

[Freak Kitchen]

evo, sad sam nabavio novi album.

 

nisam ga jos ni preslusao celog a vec mi je jasno da je odlican album.

 

mnogo lepu, modernu produkciju imaju. Imali su i na proslom albumu, a sada su uspeli jos vise da je unaprede. svaka cast.

 

i odmah se vidi da je album "sa vise slojeva" od proslog, a cini mi se da su i svirku malo zakomplikovali (ovo sto sam do sada cuo)...

 

 

 

.... sto bre nisu stavili neki fini zenski glasic () za one glupe najave u pesmama?!

 

svaki put kad cujem onog lika

[Buddha]

Blakkheim dobio svoju gitaru!

 

Regius-6 Gothic Custom / Anders Blakkheim Nystrom (Katatonia)

 

Regius bulit for Blakkheim - Katatonia leader and founder - follows in general its standard specification with neck-thru-body construction, 11 plies neck (Maple-Ebony-Wenge-Mahogany), Swamp Ash body and Ebony fingerboard. The main difference from the standard version is the top, which - instead of the standard Flamed Maple - was here made of a Ash. Another thing is our unique matt gothic finish, which additionally enhances the exceptional structure of Ash wood, so that when you touch it... you can feel the grain under your fingertips. More - when you look from the 1st fret down the fingerboard... you will find custom Maltese crosses fading in the natural darkness of Ebony wood. And further on the body - you will see Meltese crosses again, inlayed on the Q-parts Dome control knobs. To make the instrument even more personal, Anders wished to have his own guitar outlined with a special rectangle inscription (12th fret) featuring his own nickname. Such a custom option is available in all Mayo Custom Guitars & Basses for a special order.

 

Regius-6 Gothic: transparent black matt finish, DiMarzio D-sonic pickup + Fernandes Sustainer 101, Sperzel locking tuners, custom markers, blk hardware

 

 

 

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[Sinstrel]

Gothic nego sta!

Lepa je gitara.

[Supergalactic Lover]

1 - leaders je definitivno lepljivija od my twin.

2 - fotke su sranje, gledam ih i vidim dimmu borgir.

3 - svi ovi koji govore kako ce da cekaju mart da cuju novu katatoniju, verovatno je vec uveliklo slusaju negde krisom. ali pucicete vi jednom, to ne moze da se krije. hehe

 

enivej album je genijalan, pravi posle vive. i hvala svima koji su ucestvovali u distribuiranju istog do mene.

[Grobodan]

3 - svi ovi koji govore kako ce da cekaju mart da cuju novu katatoniju, verovatno je vec uveliklo slusaju negde krisom. ali pucicete vi jednom, to ne moze da se krije. hehe

 

Ne,ja sam cvrsto resio da cekam mart.I nije mi frka uopste.

[[4]]

a evo preslusah ga i ja

produkcija vrh

ali mi se ne svidja ta neka jednolicnost, posebno vokala

 

favorites (za sad):

Deliberation - potpis

My twin

Soil's song

[Kent]

Album je za tri klase ispred Discouraged Ones-a!!

[Buddha]

i za dve klase ispred Tonight's Decision-a!

[marcoman]

i mracniji od vive,

i prvi deo albuma ima smek starijih albuma

[Buddha]

ne markomane. trebalo je da napises "i za klasu ispred Last Fair Deal Gone Down-a!"