No Light

“Final Days” opens the new album with a grounded, modern-world perspective—one that feels eerily familiar. Wars, disasters, unrest, and spiritual silence seem to echo the ancient prophecies humanity has repeated for centuries. Everything appears to be aligning with the script the world has always expected: the slow unfolding of the end times, leading toward a final divine victory.
But you—the protagonist, the listener—sense something deeper. Something off.
Beneath the chaos, there is a subtle tremor in the spiritual fabric of the world. The rhythm of prophecy feels misaligned, as if reality itself is adjusting to a story that doesn’t quite match the one you remember.
In “Final Days,” you become the witness—
the one who stands between the world we know and the world that is quietly slipping into something else.
🎧 Sound & Style
Musically, this track paints the beginning of the apocalypse with:
cinematic, brooding atmospheres
steady, suspense-filled rhythms
emotional vocal lines that speak directly to the listener
a sense of building pressure, as if something enormous is approaching
progressive-metal tension woven with epic storytelling
It feels prophetic, immersive, and ominously realistic.
💬 For the Listener
This song is for anyone who has ever looked at the world and felt that something is shifting beneath the surface—
for anyone who senses patterns, sees connections, or feels the weight of a story moving toward an ending we cannot fully understand.
“Final Days” tells you:
You are not imagining it.
You are the one who hears the tremor others ignore.
You are the witness to the truth behind the unfolding prophecy.
📘 Album Context
This opening track sets the foundation for the entire album narrative.
It marks the moment before everything changes—the last breath of the universe as it was originally meant to be.
Soon, the world will experience a shift so subtle that no one notices…
and a victory so shocking that even Heaven will not see it coming.
But for now, in “Final Days,” you stand on the edge of prophecy, waiting for the dawn that Scripture promised…
a dawn that will never arrive.

Final Days

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Lyrics - "Change (In the House of Flies)"

I've watched you change 
Into a fly
I looked away
You were on fire
I watched a change
In you
It's like you never
Had wings
Now you feel
So Alive
I've watched you change
I took you home
Set you on the glass
I pulled off your wings
Then I laughed
I watched a change
In you
It's like you never
Had wings
Now you feel
So alive
I've watched you change
It's like you never
Had wings ahhh ahh ahhh
I look at the cross
Then I look away
Give you the gun
Blow me away
I've watched a change
In you
It's like you never
Had wings
Now you feel
So Alive
I've watched you change.
Now you feel Alive
You Feel Alive 
I've watched you change
It's like you never
Had wings ahhh ahh ahhh

White Pony

Change (In the House of Flies)

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Lyrics - "Minerva"

I get all...numb
When she sings it's over
Such a strange numb
And it brings my knees to the earth

And God bless you all 
For the song you saved us...

You're the same...numb
When you sing it's over
Such a strange numb
It could bring back peace to the earth

So God bless you all
For the song you saved us...oh...
For the hearts you break, everytime you moan...

I get all...numb
We're the same numb
And it brings our knees to the earth

So God bless you all
For the song you saved us..oh...
For the hearts you break, everytime you moan
And God bless you all on the earth...

Deftones

Minerva

Hexagram

Koi No Yokan

Poltergeist

Gore

Phantom Bride

Diamond Eyes

Prince

Dead Letters is the first track taken from new album Dead End Kings, go to the album site to sign up to the mailing list and download the track for FREE: deadendkings.com. A continuation of 2009’s inspired & acclaimed Night is the New Day, Dead End Kings sees Katatonia conjure yet another milestone in audial melancholy & angst.

The Katatonia of 2012 is more potent, focused and creatively impactful than ever before. Jonas Renkse and Anders Nyström - alongside guitarist Per Eriksson, bassist Niklas Sandin and drummer Daniel Liljekvist – are at the peak of their powers right now, and their brand new studio album Dead End Kings provides incontrovertible evidence of their unstoppable artistic momentum. A rich, adventurous and endlessly evocative masterwork that exhibits all the Swedish quintet’s established traits while absorbing countless fresh ideas into that monumental sonic brew, this is plainly the strongest and most beguiling album in the Katatonia catalogue to date. It also proves that sadness comes in many shades and that no one is safe from its cold allure.

“Dead End Kings represents progression and taking things to the next level,” says Renkse. ”The writing was a little more intense and spontaneous for this one. I think that’s the biggest difference. But it was made with the same mindset as the last few albums. It just had a little more fire involved. We don’t want to repeat ourselves. We are still hungry for new music.”
Dead End Kings was recorded at Ghost Ward Studios & The City Of Glass. The album was produced by Anders Nyström & Jonas Renkse, & mixed by David Castillo. Additionally, Katatonia is joined once again by Frank Default on sampling & atmospherics, plus a special guest appearance by Norwegian vocalist Silje Wergeland of Dutch legends The Gathering/ex-Octavia Sperati.

Artwork is supplied by long-time visual collaborator Travis Smith.

Tracklist*
1. The Parting 
2. The One You Are Looking for is Not Here (with Silje Wergeland) 
3. Hypnone 
4. The Racing Heart 
5. Buildings 
6. Leech 
7. Ambitions 
8. Undo You 
9. Lethean 
10. First Prayer 
11. Dead Letters 
* Deluxe edition includes two extra bonus tracks

Released August 27th 2012

For more information on Dead End Kings, go to the album site at: deadendkings.com

Katatonia - Dead Letters (from Dead End Kings)

"Leathers" from Deftones' upcoming album Koi No Yokan, available November 13th. Download the track for FREE: http://smarturl.it/leathers.

Lyrics:
This is
Your Chance... Revolt, Resist! Open you chest, Look down, Reach in.
Shedding Your Skin, Showing Your Texture. Time to Let
Everything Inside Show. You’re Cutting All Ties Now and Forever Time to let
Everything Outside You
This is
Your Test... Come Forth, Confess! Extend
Your Tongue, Speak Out, Go On.
Shedding Your Skin, Showing Your Texture. Time to Let
Everything Inside Show.
You’re Cutting All Ties Now and Forever Time to let
Everything Outside You
Shed your casing, Show your lines And shapes.
Wear your insides, On the outside, Show your enemy, What you look like

Leathers

"Tempest" from Deftones upcoming album KOI NO YOKAN. Single will be available October 9th. Album available November 13th.

"Tempest" Lyrics:
Take
Out the stories
They’ve put into your mind and brace
For the glory
As you stare into the sky.. The sky beneath
I know you can’t be tired..
Lay there
Stare at the ceiling
And switch back to your time just go ahead now try and taste it I know it should be ripe...thrust...ahead.
Turning in circles
Been caught in a stasis
The ancient arrival
Cut to the end
I’d like to be taken
Apart from the inside
Then spit through the cycle right to the end
I wonder just how you shaped it To get back to your prize...thrust..ahead
Turning in circles
Been caught in a stasis
The ancient arrival
Cut to the end
I’d like to be taken
Apart from the inside
Then spit through the cycle right to the end
Wake for the glory
I know you can’t be tired

Tempest

Deftones' Koi No Yokan on iTunes: http://bit.ly/RGvMiA. Available November 13th. More information at http://deftones.com

Lyrics - "Romantic Dreams"

I process
You're a constant changing phases
I watch them
Releasing right on cue...
In time, in sync
Tonight the stage is yours

So why wait to discover your dreams?
Now here's your chance

I promise
To watch and raise your babies
In time, in sync
Tonight the stage is yours
I'm hypnotized by your name
I wish this night would never end

So why wait for the colors to bleed?
What do you expect?

So heartless we march into the fumes
In time, in sync
Tonight the stage is yours

I'm hypnotized by your name
I wish this night would never end
I wish this night

I wish this night would never end
I wish this night

Romantic Dreams

Deftones' Koi No Yokan on iTunes: http://bit.ly/RGvMiA. Available November 13th. More information at http://deftones.com

Gauze

Goon Squad

What Happened to You?

The New Album 'Gore' Available Now at http://www.Deftones.com

Leathers

Deftones

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