How did you get into Katatonia

I got into Katatonia after having read a handful of reviews for Tonight's Decision. Finally came across it in a local metal record store here in Chicago, bought it an instantly was addicted to the sound and the feeling of the music.

I still have to add some of the back catalog to my collection, but Katatonia is now on the list of bands I'm comfortable making blind purchases from.


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I bought the Identity 5 CD and i listened to them and thought they were really cool BTY Identity is a compilation from Century Media.
 
Like somebody else said, I heard a MP3 of "Right Into The Bliss," and I had to own the album ASAP. I got that about a week later, and of course, the obligatory... "The Rest Is History!!!"

Ulf
 
Like somebody else said, I heard a MP3 of "Right Into The Bliss," and I had to own the album ASAP. I got that about a week later, and of course, the obligatory... "The Rest Is History!!!"

Ulf
 
I first heard of the band a few years ago. I read lots of things about Brave Murder Day but never really picked up on the band. Then when Tonight's Decision came out I heard a good few of the tracks from that and I really liked them but again I didn't buy the album.

This year I met this girl through some message board on the net and we got together (yeah. . net romance . .great isn't it?) and she is always going on about Katatonia, so two months ago I bought Last Fair Deal Gone Down and it really grabbed me and as time has gone by it's grown on me so much. I've got a few other releases of theirs, Discouraged Ones, Dance. . , For Funerals EP, Teargas and Tonight's Music. I can't say I'm too fond of the earlier stuff but what they've been doing since Discouraged Ones really grabs me.
 
i found out about this totally unknown band by a magazine i only bought ONCE!! it said something about Katatonia always perfecting themselves, doing sincere music. What atraccted me the most was when it said , i'll quote: "im your melancholic estimation band"

so i was live... well lets get a couple of musicss, im "tired" of Death metal.

i dowloaded "I am Nothing" and "SUlfur" and BANG! it fits!

lately i got Dance Of December Souls and if you started after Discouraged Ones you should at least check out this album... it has "GATEWAY OF BEREAVEMENT" and if you like beautifull edging music you'll ADORE it as myself. Well i cant get into the albums with Mikael... so Brave Murder Days is out of the question... i do like Funeral wedding though...
 
i heard of them through my love of Opeth. Mikael always mentions Katatonia and because he done vocals on Brave Murder Day i decided to get it. I loved it!! and since then i've got all their albums, though no EP's.
 
Originally posted by Culture_AK47
i heard of them through my love of Opeth. Mikael always mentions Katatonia and because he done vocals on Brave Murder Day i decided to get it. I loved it!! and since then i've got all their albums, though no EP's.
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i you liked BMD then you have to get For Funarals To Come... it has Funeral Wedding and FOr Funerals TO Come that's like the sequel to Jhva Elhim Meth... good instrumental
 
There was a time I got a job with a good salary. I had possibility to buy every record I wanted and also records I really knew nothing about. I got 'Brave Murder Day', without knowing anything about the band or style.
 
I got into music in late 1989, and some of you veteran metalheads know that that was around the time when Death Metal was born. The early 90's where great to me music wise because I fell in love with a lot of bands that I still love (SEPTIC FLESH, NIGHTFALL, ARCTURUS, KATATONIA, VADER, TRAUMA and the list keeps going on forever!)

In 1992 I heard KATATONIA's "Jhva Elohim Meth" (amongst other things) from some tape, not the actual demo just a copy of "Jhva Elohim Meth" that someone didn't like. When Dance of Decemer Souls came out I bought it. I have every KATATONIA album since then!

Back then I used to buy a lot of tapes. In '99 I started converting my collection from tapes to CDs! Even though I have A LOT of CDs there is still a lot of music I don't have that I used to have on tape. I wish to add the Jhva Elohi Meth Demo on CD to this collection, but I've had a hard time finding it without it being $60+!

Hopefully Jonas might want to rerelease it.
 
The first time I heard about Katatonia was in the review to "Tonights Decision" in the german Rock Hard Magazin. They gave the album 9 out of 10 points and said that people who like Anathemas "Alternative 4" and "Judgement" will also love "Tonight's Decision". As a very big Anathema Fan they got my interests. So I listened to "Tonight's Decision" but it was a little hard for me to get into the album. After a few months I saw the album again in a shop and listened to it once more and I asked myself why I needed so much time. I don't know why but I would say it was love from the second hearing :)). Since then I looked forward for any future releases from Katatonia.
 
around this time last year my mate brought round Tonight's Decision and I wasn't a big fan of it when i heard the album except when I heard For My Demons.

So I downloaded Teargas and Tonight's Music and fell in love with them, then I bought LFDGD and to this day it's still my all time favourite album!
 
It was the summer of '94 or '95 - as soon as I heard the beginning of Gateways of bereavement I know it was "my" group.
 
Some years back I was a member of the My Dying Bride mailinglist, where people occasionally were discussing Katatonia. From impression I got by them, I had to check out some samples from "Tonight's Decision". I bought the album shortly afterwards. It took me some time really like the band, though and become a fan. At first I didn't like the old stuff, because it was too harsh and fucking depressive. Now I like the old albums almost as much as the new stuff.
 
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