I picked up this album with numerous reccommendations from fellow UM members, and was still not convinced to buy it, because there was more important CDs on my list. I went to the Record Store one day and the only thing that caught my eye was Katatonia- Brave Murder Day, I relunctantly picked it up. So I got home and put it in my CD Player with high expectations, my expectations were not let down by this simply brilliant album.
For those of you unfamilliar with Katatonia, they are Dark/Depressing metal now with clean vox, but on Brave Murder Day they had Death Metal vox courtesy of Mikael Akertfelt. The opening song Brave, which a simply brilliant song, condidered by many to be Katatonia's best song, it is a pretty long song, but you can never tell because it is so good. The next song Murder is one of my favourite songs on the album , it does'nt wreck the pace which Brave set for the album, it is a perfect follow up, a short song, and of course depressing. Day is a song that really gets to me, Jonas' Renske tortured clean vox always sends chills down my spine, it's so fragile and brittle, and just convey's all the emotion. The last three songs Rainroom, 12, and Endtime, don't let up the depressing and dark atmosphere.
To wrap it up everything on this album is perfect, Anders Nystrom, simple yet well structured songs are simply the best out there at the moment. THis is a must have for people into the Darker side of music
Rating: 9/10
For those of you unfamilliar with Katatonia, they are Dark/Depressing metal now with clean vox, but on Brave Murder Day they had Death Metal vox courtesy of Mikael Akertfelt. The opening song Brave, which a simply brilliant song, condidered by many to be Katatonia's best song, it is a pretty long song, but you can never tell because it is so good. The next song Murder is one of my favourite songs on the album , it does'nt wreck the pace which Brave set for the album, it is a perfect follow up, a short song, and of course depressing. Day is a song that really gets to me, Jonas' Renske tortured clean vox always sends chills down my spine, it's so fragile and brittle, and just convey's all the emotion. The last three songs Rainroom, 12, and Endtime, don't let up the depressing and dark atmosphere.
To wrap it up everything on this album is perfect, Anders Nystrom, simple yet well structured songs are simply the best out there at the moment. THis is a must have for people into the Darker side of music
Rating: 9/10
. Also check out Anathema preferably The Silent Enigma.
I love the "wintery" atmosphere I get for this album.
