How did you get into Katatonia - Page 3

yv · April 14th, 2003, 01:44 AM

Let's refresh the thread!

I knocked into them in Discouraged times, I got 'I break' from one polish metal zine. the song was great, but it didn't encourage me to buy the record. Tonight's Decision cover was that missing factor. It really took passion of me, felt like I was standing there on the track and not knowing where to go, what to chose... When I finally got the alb it was no salvation for me no more! Since then I follow their genius...

What is interesting, my Mum loved DoDS before me and she brought me back to that times (Thanx Mum).

And I got to Opeth via Katatonia! They played gig together

seventi · April 14th, 2003, 02:06 AM

Actually, I haven't got into Katatonia yet. This is but my first post here and I have only heard a brief sample of one song from the newest album. Criminals I think it was called. I have read about this band for some time and I am very curious to here them some more! So, songs or albums to tips me about would be welcomed

yv · April 14th, 2003, 05:11 AM

If you liked Criminals you really should check out the last three albs: Viva Emptiness, Last Fair Deal Gone Down and Tonight's Decision. Guarantee, you won't be disappointed. Many great songs-it's too hard and time-stealing to advice, just try yourself

Great songs you will also find on EP's: Tonight's Music ('help me disappear') and Teargas ('sulfur'!)

If you like some depressing doom metal as well then try the earliest records...

Northern Lights · April 14th, 2003, 05:29 AM

I had never heard Katatonia before, but I read a review of LFDGD and it sounded like something I would like. I wanted to get a new album at the time, so I got LFDGD on impulse. Needless to say, I've never regretted it

seventi · April 14th, 2003, 08:50 AM

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Originally Posted by yv

If you liked Criminals you really should check out the last three albs: Viva Emptiness, Last Fair Deal Gone Down and Tonight's Decision. Guarantee, you won't be disappointed. Many great songs-it's too hard and time-stealing to advice, just try yourself

Great songs you will also find on EP's: Tonight's Music ('help me disappear') and Teargas ('sulfur'!)

If you like some depressing doom metal as well then try the earliest records...

Cool man! Yeah, Criminals was really cool and when I first heard the song I said to myself that this will probably be something I will like. I am getting Viva Emptiness this week and thanx for the tip. I'll be sure to check those other albums out as well!

yv · April 14th, 2003, 09:02 AM

E N J O Y !
Now you're lost too...

Kains D · April 18th, 2003, 12:12 PM

I knew Katatonia by means of a friend first, but I forgot and never downloaded a song or visited their URL. Someone at the Samael club at yahoo liked lots of bands the same as I and mentioned Katatonia as one of his favorites.
Then I remembered, visited the URL and loved the intro and the background music. That day I bought LFDGD and since then, I'm a big fan of these guys.

Dispossession · April 18th, 2003, 04:33 PM

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Originally Posted by _Transparent_

what was your first experience of Katatonia? they're not the sort of band you hear about all the time, or hear on the radio. so how did you hear of the band?

Since I am new baby here, I will answer this post as well. As I am an old fart (kinda haha), I got into Katatonia through "Ihva Elohim Meth" demo which is still one of my favourite demos, so i am here since the very beginning... remember all the face paint and badmouthing Jews in inties (hi Blackheim! hahaha). I like the demo even more than the debut album... I missed "Songs of decay" somehow later, but after brilliant "Discouraged ones" I quickly caught up and it followed, so here I am. Gotta say that "Last fair deal" helped me a lot to get through last years bad experiences. Weird eh?

Now the new one, it's brilliant. I loved it when I got the promo single from Peaceville but the full lenght which followed later (Lisa, I owe you!) hit me with a bit weird atmosphere... after "last fair deal" i expected hits but this album ended up to be much darker... for a while.. now I know all the songs by heart.

Now that was a confession.

Protoz · April 20th, 2003, 03:44 PM

I found a site...Gnod's statistics that had Katatonia near Opeth in the onscreen similarities thing so I got I am Nothing after I was dumped (seemed fitting at the time) and I've been hook since.

Violin · April 20th, 2003, 10:18 PM

One day I was browsing through www.mp3.com and I came across a band called Katatonia. I downloaded a few songs there--I believe one was "Passing Bird," I think, but I'm not sure of the other--not expecting a whole lot, but I was nicely surprised. After that I went on Audiogalaxy and found tons of their music, so I had a ball. This was back in '01, and I've been quite a fan of the band ever since. Last Fair Deal Gone Down just blew me away, but from what I've heard of Viva Emptiness it's even surpassing LFDGD, to my shock. But you can't underestimate Katatonia.

Blodhemn · April 21st, 2003, 03:19 PM

I decided one day to buy the 5 newest metal albums (not having heard any of them) from a online shop, Katatonia VE was one of them. I was kinda expecting the Kovenant's SETI to be the best one of the lot, but it didnt even come close to VE.
After a few spins I ordered for the rest of them

ScorpionShard · April 21st, 2003, 07:35 PM

Hmmm i don't remember exactly when but I remember buying Brave Murder Day, two or three months after it was released in Europe. It was around the same time I was hooked into Opeth. The sheer beauty of BMD was enough for me to be hooked on Katatonia; I still believe it's my favorite Katatonia album, although I love all of their music [god, I still remember I was singing "I Break" all the damn time

]. I think Katatonia is a band that progressed in the right direction.

ucsbdude · April 22nd, 2003, 02:12 AM

Through Opeth... they rock too!

Peace!

unreality · April 23rd, 2003, 10:02 AM

I heard first time Katatatonia from my friend, i think the album was Brave murder day or Dance of december souls... and there was no turning back

I was sold

I think Katatonia has come better, and grown, after every album. Hope they keep going the same line

dg · April 23rd, 2003, 10:41 AM

In 1996 I was a bit into Black Metal and I used to listen to Diabolical Masquerade. I knew that Blackheim had several other quality projects.
I read a very good review on Discouraged ones in Hard Rock Mag. I borrowed the album to one of my friends. That's all folks...

Incendiare · April 23rd, 2003, 07:19 PM

Back in the days of Napster, my brother was discovering all these underground bands. He downloaded a few of their songs, and I randomly chose to listen to Right into the Bliss. All I had to say was wow. There is absolutely nothing like it.

italvamp2378 · April 25th, 2003, 09:27 AM

My boyfriend and I used to be DJ's at my college radio station, back in 1998, and I found out about them at about the same time I discovered Opeth and Lacuna Coil.

Viva Emptiness has a different feel to it. It's hard to describe. It seems more experimental than Tonight's Decision and Last Fair Deal Gone Down. I really like it

OracleDeist · April 27th, 2003, 01:41 AM

I would go to my friend's house and he would always have Brave Murder day on, a few weeks later I began to love and I was like I have get this shit now!!!!!!!!

Shogunaut · April 27th, 2003, 11:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by italvamp2378

My boyfriend and I used to be DJ's at my college radio station, back in 1998, and I found out about them at about the same time I discovered Opeth and Lacuna Coil.

Viva Emptiness has a different feel to it. It's hard to describe. It seems more experimental than Tonight's Decision and Last Fair Deal Gone Down. I really like it

Where in New York do you live?

Shogunaut · April 27th, 2003, 12:16 PM

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Originally Posted by OracleDeist

I would go to my friend's house and he would always have Brave Murder day on, a few weeks later I began to love and I was like I have get this shit now!!!!!!!!

He also used to come to my house a lot when I played Last Fair Deal Gone Down EVERY FUCKING DAY and he immediately got hooked on that too!

It is great to have a KATATONIA fan very close by to talk with! He and I just want some FEMALE KATATONIA fans nearby because it is great to have a female's perspective on KATATONIA closeby at all times, plus it doesn't hurt to have a girlfriend who's a KATATONIA fan who shares the love of KATATONIA with you and whom you can fuck while KATATONIA is playing in the background!

Shogunaut · April 27th, 2003, 12:18 PM

Hehe! That is my next thread!

OracleDeist · April 29th, 2003, 12:01 AM

Sure why not.

Shogunaut · April 29th, 2003, 12:09 AM

huh? Oh well!

OracleDeist · April 29th, 2003, 12:28 AM

The thread.

Shogunaut · April 29th, 2003, 12:55 AM

Hmmm.

April 14th, 2003, 01:44 AM	#51 (permalink)
yv wears vegetables Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Amstelveen, NL Posts: 820	Let's refresh the thread! I knocked into them in Discouraged times, I got 'I break' from one polish metal zine. the song was great, but it didn't encourage me to buy the record. Tonight's Decision cover was that missing factor. It really took passion of me, felt like I was standing there on the track and not knowing where to go, what to chose... When I finally got the alb it was no salvation for me no more! Since then I follow their genius... What is interesting, my Mum loved DoDS before me and she brought me back to that times (Thanx Mum). And I got to Opeth via Katatonia! They played gig together __________________ http://eeritrocite.com http://yv.deviantart.com

April 14th, 2003, 02:06 AM	#52 (permalink)
seventi Viva Lonliness! Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: The Third Place Posts: 984	Actually, I haven't got into Katatonia yet. This is but my first post here and I have only heard a brief sample of one song from the newest album. Criminals I think it was called. I have read about this band for some time and I am very curious to here them some more! So, songs or albums to tips me about would be welcomed __________________ Failure is not an option - it is a privilege reserved for those who do not try hard enough

April 14th, 2003, 05:11 AM	#53 (permalink)
yv wears vegetables Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Amstelveen, NL Posts: 820	If you liked Criminals you really should check out the last three albs: Viva Emptiness, Last Fair Deal Gone Down and Tonight's Decision. Guarantee, you won't be disappointed. Many great songs-it's too hard and time-stealing to advice, just try yourself Great songs you will also find on EP's: Tonight's Music ('help me disappear') and Teargas ('sulfur'!) If you like some depressing doom metal as well then try the earliest records... __________________ http://eeritrocite.com http://yv.deviantart.com Last edited by yv : April 14th, 2003 at 05:20 AM.

April 14th, 2003, 05:29 AM	#54 (permalink)
Northern Lights Quicksilver Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Sweden Posts: 1,417	I had never heard Katatonia before, but I read a review of LFDGD and it sounded like something I would like. I wanted to get a new album at the time, so I got LFDGD on impulse. Needless to say, I've never regretted it __________________ "It is purely an anomaly of fate that Gottfried as a young man, lacking means, seeking a position landed in the court of an obscure German Duke. Who through intricate and tedious lacework of marryings, couplings, dyings, religious conversions, wars, revolutions, miscarriages, decapitations, congenital feeblemindedness, excommunications, et cetera among Europe's elite - most notably, the deaths of all seventeen of Queen Anne's children - became first in line to the throne of England and Scotland"

April 14th, 2003, 09:02 AM	#56 (permalink)
yv wears vegetables Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Amstelveen, NL Posts: 820	E N J O Y ! Now you're lost too... __________________ http://eeritrocite.com http://yv.deviantart.com

April 18th, 2003, 12:12 PM	#57 (permalink)
Kains D Am I my brother's keeper? Join Date: Feb 2002 Posts: 166	I knew Katatonia by means of a friend first, but I forgot and never downloaded a song or visited their URL. Someone at the Samael club at yahoo liked lots of bands the same as I and mentioned Katatonia as one of his favorites. Then I remembered, visited the URL and loved the intro and the background music. That day I bought LFDGD and since then, I'm a big fan of these guys. __________________ Face all your demons -Evereve, 'Demons'

April 20th, 2003, 03:44 PM	#59 (permalink)
Protoz Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 1	I found a site...Gnod's statistics that had Katatonia near Opeth in the onscreen similarities thing so I got I am Nothing after I was dumped (seemed fitting at the time) and I've been hook since.

April 20th, 2003, 10:18 PM	#60 (permalink)
Violin Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 3	One day I was browsing through www.mp3.com and I came across a band called Katatonia. I downloaded a few songs there--I believe one was "Passing Bird," I think, but I'm not sure of the other--not expecting a whole lot, but I was nicely surprised. After that I went on Audiogalaxy and found tons of their music, so I had a ball. This was back in '01, and I've been quite a fan of the band ever since. Last Fair Deal Gone Down just blew me away, but from what I've heard of Viva Emptiness it's even surpassing LFDGD, to my shock. But you can't underestimate Katatonia.

April 21st, 2003, 03:19 PM	#61 (permalink)
Blodhemn Following the Chaos Path Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Nord-Trøndelag, Norway Posts: 42	I decided one day to buy the 5 newest metal albums (not having heard any of them) from a online shop, Katatonia VE was one of them. I was kinda expecting the Kovenant's SETI to be the best one of the lot, but it didnt even come close to VE. After a few spins I ordered for the rest of them __________________ "Music is a moral law - it gives wings to the mind, A soul to the universe, Flight to the imagination, A charm to sadness, A life to everything." - Plato

April 21st, 2003, 07:35 PM	#62 (permalink)
ScorpionShard Drunk Bucaneer Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: lives in NY, would like to live back home in the great Istanbul Posts: 94	Hmmm i don't remember exactly when but I remember buying Brave Murder Day, two or three months after it was released in Europe. It was around the same time I was hooked into Opeth. The sheer beauty of BMD was enough for me to be hooked on Katatonia; I still believe it's my favorite Katatonia album, although I love all of their music [god, I still remember I was singing "I Break" all the damn time ]. I think Katatonia is a band that progressed in the right direction. __________________ Raise a fist to Heaven!

April 22nd, 2003, 02:12 AM	#63 (permalink)
ucsbdude Stargate Addict Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Stargate Command Posts: 1,552	Through Opeth... they rock too! Peace!

April 23rd, 2003, 10:02 AM	#64 (permalink)
unreality Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Finland Posts: 4	I heard first time Katatatonia from my friend, i think the album was Brave murder day or Dance of december souls... and there was no turning back I was sold I think Katatonia has come better, and grown, after every album. Hope they keep going the same line

April 23rd, 2003, 10:41 AM	#65 (permalink)
dg Member Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Switzerland Posts: 87	In 1996 I was a bit into Black Metal and I used to listen to Diabolical Masquerade. I knew that Blackheim had several other quality projects. I read a very good review on Discouraged ones in Hard Rock Mag. I borrowed the album to one of my friends. That's all folks...

April 23rd, 2003, 07:19 PM	#66 (permalink)
Incendiare hejdundrande skitsnack Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 10,307	Back in the days of Napster, my brother was discovering all these underground bands. He downloaded a few of their songs, and I randomly chose to listen to Right into the Bliss. All I had to say was wow. There is absolutely nothing like it.

April 25th, 2003, 09:27 AM	#67 (permalink)
italvamp2378 La Bella Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: BACK IN NYC Posts: 51	My boyfriend and I used to be DJ's at my college radio station, back in 1998, and I found out about them at about the same time I discovered Opeth and Lacuna Coil. Viva Emptiness has a different feel to it. It's hard to describe. It seems more experimental than Tonight's Decision and Last Fair Deal Gone Down. I really like it __________________ I'll think of something witty to put in here later!

April 27th, 2003, 01:41 AM	#68 (permalink)
OracleDeist LORD IAN Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: New York City Posts: 106	I would go to my friend's house and he would always have Brave Murder day on, a few weeks later I began to love and I was like I have get this shit now!!!!!!!!

April 27th, 2003, 12:18 PM	#71 (permalink)
Shogunaut Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Enthroned in the Darkness of the Cosmos Posts: 113	Hehe! That is my next thread!

April 29th, 2003, 12:01 AM	#72 (permalink)
OracleDeist LORD IAN Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: New York City Posts: 106	Sure why not.

April 29th, 2003, 12:09 AM	#73 (permalink)
Shogunaut Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Enthroned in the Darkness of the Cosmos Posts: 113	huh? Oh well! __________________ I am no human now because I choose to know

April 29th, 2003, 12:28 AM	#74 (permalink)
OracleDeist LORD IAN Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: New York City Posts: 106	The thread.

April 29th, 2003, 12:55 AM	#75 (permalink)
Shogunaut Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Enthroned in the Darkness of the Cosmos Posts: 113	Hmmm. __________________ I am no human now because I choose to know