Dark Tranquility - Auctioned

False
The dream is so far
Come and take the consequence
Few things are as certain
Winter state
Oppressive wait

Evacuate
Assemble here
Soil's song
In your throat
Future death
In your reach
Who's first
Okay

Mask
Your face well hidden
Keep your last words in your hand
Fold it and open up
Time to go
Release the glow

Evacuate
Assemble here
Soil's song
In your throat
Future death
In your reach
Who's first
Okay

False
The dream is so far

Evacuate
Assemble here
Soil's song
In your throat
Future death
In your reach
Who's first
Okay
Evacuate
Assemble here
Soil's song
In your throat
Future death
In your reach
Who's first
Okay

Song Meaning -
Jonas addresses,"Well, it isn't about suicide bombers specifically, rather about how some people are willing to sacrifice anything in the name of what they believe in. Be it for religious, revolutionary or other reasons... Interesting theme indeed but difficult to write about. No propaganda folks."

Soil's Song

Hurts to see
My incapacity
Shame
Idle mind
No
You have changed me

My mouth is shut
Stupidity have shut my mouth
Shame
Idle mind
No
You have changed me

So when you come
I'm too unprepared to come along
I hold your hand so hard
My knuckles turn white
When your clear the streets
And kill the lights

See the line
Border to freedom
The words
Underlined
My name
You have changed it

Your tone changed to cool
This how you tell me once again
How I have nothing on you
How everything is supposed to end

So when you come
I'm too unprepared to come along
I hold your hand so hard
My knuckles turn white
When your clear the streets
And kill the lights

Father
I won't make it
It's the journey of a life
Fix my eyes on the sun
What have I done

Father
I won't make it
It's the journey of a life
Fix my eyes on the sun
What have I done

So when you come
I'm too unprepared to come along
I hold your hand so hard
My knuckles turn white
When your clear the streets
And kill the lights

Follower

Movement
Subdued back then
So quiet now
Subsequence
Systematic violence
The great cold distance

The itch
The urge

Make way
Think of something
Thin out the fear
Past the tracks
Part the ways
One stand here
Medicate
Kill the itch
Check the air
And push to get there

Monochrome
Symbol on the surface
Reduced illumination
Chemical inheritance

The lies
The fever

Make way
Think of something
Thin out the fear
Past the tracks
Part the ways
One stand here
Medicate
Kill the itch
Check the air
And push to get there

The Itch

The Mayan Factor - Warflower

Katatonia, the Swedish purveyors of dark progressive rock/metal, have released their eagerly awaited 10th studio album The Fall of Hearts, through their long-time home of Peaceville Records.
The official follow-up to 2012’s acclaimed Dead End Kings was recorded at Stockholm’s Studio Gröndahl & Tri-lamb Studio, and was self-produced by Anders Nyström & Jonas Renkse. Mixing and mastering duties were carried out by Jens Bogren (Opeth, Ihsahn, Devin Townsend) at Fascination Street Studios, with Karl Daniel Lidén (Switchblade, The Ocean, Greenleaf) brought in as engineer.
The dramatic yet desolate artwork was created by long time Katatonia designer and illustrator Travis Smith.
Katatonia have spent the past four years since the release of Dead End Kings touring the world, as well as expanding their fanbase through two special albums on Kscope, the sister label of Peaceville. 2013 saw the release of Dethroned & Uncrowned which exploded the core of the songs on Dead End Kings creating new moods and textures. In 2015, they released the live acoustic album and concert film, Sanctitude. Both releases illustrate the band’s journey toward this, their current more progressive sound.
The Fall of Hearts is the first record to feature new drummer Daniel ’Mojjo’ Moilanen and with the addition of their recently recruited guitarist Roger Öjersson (Tiamat), who came in just in time to sprinkle some blistering solos on the album, Katatonia will continue to push their musical boundaries beyond their roots in the metal scene while drawing in new fans from across the musical spectrum like peers such as Opeth and Anathema have also done, cementing Katatonia’s place as one of the most revered and cherished of all bands in the world of modern heavy music.
Katatonia comment on The Fall Of Hearts “This album is probably everything we unknowingly ever dreamed of to release. It’s a bleak but adventurous journey through our elements, we haven’t held back, we have pushed to get forward and backward in the ever spiralling night of our musical legacy.”
The Fall Of Hearts is available on the following formats - Deluxe 12” hardbook, 2 Disc CD & DVD Mediabook, CD, 2LP (inc. download code)
Formats are available now to order
CD / LP / Deluxe Edition / exclusive bundles: 
peaceville.com/store  
omerch.eu/shop/katatonia/
Digital: smarturl.it/KAT_TFOH_DIGITAL

Katatonia will be playing European Summer festivals before embarking on a headline tour of South America and Europe – for full tour details www.katatonia.com 


Katatonia - Decima (from the album The Fall Of Hearts)

The Silent Enigma

A Dying Wish (Studio)

The Forest Seasons

Loneliness (Winter)

Get the album here!

Wintersun - Loneliness (Winter)

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)

TRIPTYKON - Aurorae (OFFICIAL VIDEO)

Veronica Decides to Die

All Alone

No matter how brightly the sun shines, sorrow will always cast its ageless shadow across the human soul. Expressing that eternal sadness is an art in itself, and over the last two decades, Sweden’s masters of melancholy Katatonia have firmly established themselves as the most passionate and skilful exponents of the form. Formed by vocalist/drummer Jonas Petter Renkse and guitarist Anders Nyström in Stockholm in 1991, the band emerged from the amorphous maelstrom that was the nascent death/doom metal scene; a darker, more emotionally resonant sibling to the ongoing extreme metal world, and one that offered a new and more humane perspective on life’s darker days.

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