Best Katatonia for a new listener

[Russell]

If this is anything like the Opeth forum I'm sure you keep on having these boards so sorry But I thought I should get some Katatonia and was wondering what the best album to start with was?

 

[Russell]

I should add I usually like clean vocals

 

[jesse]

It's safe to check out 'Last Fair Deal Gone Down' (their newest) and also of course 'Tonight's Decision' and 'Discouraged Ones'. (Going back in chronological order). The vocals get more active and the music a bit more active as well in the newer material, while 'Discouraged Ones' is more droning and has that undeniable downer feeling. All are fantastic though, so it's up to you. www.theendrecords.com has LFDGD for a good price I've seen too, if you decide on that.. ($13.50 including shipping I believe).

 

[Dismal]

I should add I usually like clean vocals

Yeah, I said that, too, until I heard Mikael Akerfeldt on Brave Murder Day

 

[Russell]

Hehe, thanx, I live in the uk tho so may not be able to get them

And I love Mikaels growling, but he's the exception. I like the contrast between the vocal styles, it annoys me intensely when people just growl through a record

 

[MindMorgue]

Originally posted by godisanathiest
Hehe, thanx, I live in the uk tho so may not be able to get them

Blimy it's not that backwards round here, and they were released on an English record label

Anyways I would also recommend ordering from the end as they are fast and cheap and will deliver to the UK for a reasonable price, so you may as well get Brave Murder Day, and Dance of the December Souls while your at it.


MindMorgue.

 

[Russell]

Thanx I meant by couldn't get them I couldn't order them from that website. I have no doubt I can get them here! How much is cheap?

 

[requiem]

It depends what sort of vocals and song structures you want to hear.

You can't really go wrong with 'Brave Murder Day' (Mikael's growls), I think everyone will agree there...

The newer stuff (clean vocals) is just as good in my opinion, with the exception of 'Discouraged Ones' which doesn't quite hit me like the others, although I still love it. I think their crowning achievement is 'Last Fair Deal Gone Down', one of the most amazing albums I've ever heard.

 

[Russell]

I think i'll try that one then. It'll have to wait till I get payed tho

 

[MindMorgue]

Originally posted by godisanathiest
How much is cheap?

As the man said LFDGD is $13.50
Brave Murder Day is $10.00
Dance is $11.00
Postage for upto 4 cds is $5.00
which is $48.50 or £33.27 - which is not as cheap as I was expecting cos the dollor is weak against the pound at the moment

MindMorgue.

 

[Russell]

Oops, sorry, missed that Yeah I went to America recently and found the stregth of the pound really annoying

 

[Anthony]

I think best to intertainment are "Discouraged ones" and "Last fair Deal Gone Down".

 

[Frost]

Brave Murder Day all night long

 

[Wanderer]

iyou prefer clean vocals then....
Discouraged ones i would say;tonight's decision is better but you must listen Discouraged first!
and listen Sounds of decay and also BRAVE MURDER DAY you would prefer music rather than clean vocals

 

[Opet]

I think it depends on which way the new listener is coming from. Like, if they usually listen to only death vocals you'd refer them to something older. Right? If they usually only listen to...I don't know, like a ton of bands out right now with clean vocals and you're trying to slowly bring them over the death vocals style, you'd have them get LFDGD and then if they turned out to love it, then they could buy backwards until they bought that first death vocals...well, OK. Maybe it wouldn't be that easy.

I don't know. I couldn't imagine what it must sound like to hear death vocals for the first time anymore. I think I may have thought it sounded...REALLY FUCKING AWESOME! Hahahaha!

But, yeah. I think it depends on which genre direction the new listener is coming from to decide which albums the best for them.

Lynn

"12 morbid ways to die her beauty scares me."

 

[Russell]

Yeah, I preffer clean vocals

 

[_Transparent_]

definately LFDGD, my fav album of the year, it comes in a cool paper four fold case thingy. it always annoys me when i see that album in HMV and no one has bought it, theres like 5 copies of it stacked up!!!! oh and you can get Tonight's Decision on a re-release with bonus tracks for £9 from HMV too, too cheap. i think you will have trouble getting Discouraged Ones as the manufacturer went broke so you can only get it in second hand shops or the net etc.

 

[Russell]

All peaceville albums are like that and cheap as well, what a great label!

 

[MountainDweller]

Who's the manufacturer? Avantgarde? Or do you mean Caroline Distribution? That's rather interesting. Where did you hear of this?

 

[John Carvajal]

D.O. for a new Listener !!! then next ones, after that brave m.d. and Dance of D.S.