Best Katatonia album
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Belligerent
Greekus Urungus
What a ridiculously retarded comment. Coldplay? You're usually a way better poster than that.
The Great Cold Distance is my favorite. I agree w/ Ozzman on this one. From start to finish the album is amazing. No filler tracks at all...just a great album to throw on on a gloomy fall day. I also agree that DODS and BMD are boring.
Sorry, I've tried numerous times to get into them but meh.
and fixed your post. It is definitely awesome to listen to this time of yearI like DoDS more than BMD. BMD just sounds like generic death/doom to me. That album would have been better with Renske doing clean vox the entire album instead of Akerfeldt doing harsh vox for most of the album.
Belligerent
Greekus Urungus
Very true. The should re-release the album w/ just clean vocals and invite Akerfeldt back.
I like DoDS more than BMD. BMD just sounds like generic death/doom to me. That album would have been better with Renske doing clean vox instead of Akerfeldt doing harsh vox for most of the album.
That would own.
stefan86
invariably off-topic
ShredHeadJHJ
oh noes itz a opinionn
Futile is my favorite, and is the first; but they are all excellent. I would just go in order: Futile, Songs for the Withering, Silent Stage. Can't go wrong really.
voting for tonights decision just cause it has no votes and its the best of the post-bmd stuff
katatonia blatantly sound like the cure at times btw, ever heard discouraged ones?
katatonia blatantly sound like the cure at times btw, ever heard discouraged ones?
Discouraged Ones is probably my least favorite out of the ones I have. Guess I wouldn't like The Cure, then.
Vilden
From the holy kingdom of Harmonia
Jesse Pohjalainen
Lepra Lord
Discouraged Ones
Probably the saddest album I have ever heard and the remastered version with Quiet World and Scarlet Heavens. Perfect.
Probably the saddest album I have ever heard and the remastered version with Quiet World and Scarlet Heavens. Perfect.
Nothing that Katatonia has ever done sounds even remotely like anything The Cure has ever done. Not musically. Not vocally. Not lyrically. I seriously do not get how people keep making that comparison.
That said, both are great bands. Though I imagine a lot of people here would dislike The Cure.
That said, both are great bands. Though I imagine a lot of people here would dislike The Cure.
Belligerent
Greekus Urungus
I still don't get why everyone chooses BMD.
I'm noticing a trend here...whenever poll threads are created everyone tries to stay TR00 and automatically vote early material.
Then usually go on to say the band sold out and so forth.
Examples would be Opeth and Enslaved.
Everyone says Ghost Reveries and RUUN suck blah blah blah listen to their old stuff the new stuff is overproduced.
Whatever.
I'm noticing a trend here...whenever poll threads are created everyone tries to stay TR00 and automatically vote early material.
Then usually go on to say the band sold out and so forth.
Examples would be Opeth and Enslaved.
Everyone says Ghost Reveries and RUUN suck blah blah blah listen to their old stuff the new stuff is overproduced.
Whatever.
Belligerent
Greekus Urungus
If someone that has never heard Katatonia before asks for me to compare them to other bands you really can't. Very unique and innovative band. Jonas's voice is one of a kind. Either hate it or love it.
zoidberg
Mallcore Kid
katonia's best album is the ruler by which our legs are measured
you've proballbly never heard of it
you've proballbly never heard of it
zoidberg
Mallcore Kid
Maybe because BMD is a much better album than you and Ozzman are giving it credit for. It is not at all "generic". For something to be generic would imply there are many albums that sound basically just like it and that came out before it. Which there really aren't. If you disagree then by all means name them because I'd be dying to hear them.
BMD is pretty much the perfect embodiment of Anders' "less is more" approach to songwriting that he's displayed on all of Katatonia's and Diabolical Masquerade's output where he is able to convey an incredible atmosphere with very simple melodic structures. On top of that there's the excellent vocal performance by Mikael Akerfeldt (and Jonas on one track). And it has a good album length where it doesn't overstay its welcome by becoming overly repetitive. All in all it's a consistently good album, which is more than can be said of some of their later works (don't get me wrong I'm still a fan of those as well, but they are certainly more hit and miss).
challenge_everything
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