New or Old katatonia? Whats your Favorite?

[My Hearse Your Arms]

I think every album is different from another...And with people who group DODS and BMD...I don't think so...completely different sounds. Only thing I can see going together is BMD and SOD...other than that Katatonia have made a unique sound on each and every record...and I enjoy every last second of every song.

Hail all Katatonia!

HAIL

 

[terrorbakis]

hmmm their best albums in my opinion is: Brave murder day and viva emptiness.. so 50/50?

 

[LifeDepraved]

Yeah... Okey, then.

Oldest era - DODS
Old era - BMD
Old, but not THAT old era - DO
Sort of in the middle era - TD
Pretty new, but still a little old era - LFDGD
New, but could have been newer era - VE
Newest (for now) era - TGCD



And i prefer the "New, but could have been newer" and the "Newest (for now)" eras.

Haha...didn't have to do that

 

[Karyn Da Costa]

Ah well, depends on the mood...i miss the early days though. They've evolved a hell of a lot over the years and just keep getting better and better.

I'd love to hear the band play the likes of Brave and Rainroom live - with Daniel on drums, em, perhaps shortened versions *s*

And i agree with daimonion, i see your point!

Karyn.

www.myspace.com/karyndacosta

 

[M3]

I'd love to see Rainroom live! And as far as different eras are concerned, I agree with Daimonion that there are 3 primary eras: old (DODS-BMD), middle (DO-LFDGD), and New (VE-TGCD). When I think of their new stuff though, I tend to group everything from DO on, seeing as it was their biggest musical transition (because of the switch to all clean vocals). Don't get me wrong; I love the older stuff too, but if I had to pick my favorite Katatonia albums I'd have to go with LFDGD and TGCD.

 

[Tone-Deaf]

new will get old some day, and old will get classics. but will the new become classics when the get old or the old are already classics. i'm confused.

LFDGD has a warmth of melancholy that ve and especially tgcd lacks of.

 

[UnwillingEntity]

I have no prefrence when it comes to DODS to TGCD. Each album has a different form of expression, I like all of them.

 

[brownden]

New all the way! I mean it's all pretty good but Viva Emptiness gets me hard every time I listen to it.

 

[DarkSubjectMatter]

I have no prefrence when it comes to DODS to TGCD. Each album has a different form of expression, I like all of them.

Agreed.

 

[Sadguru]

what is old and what is new?
bye bye

New = anything after BMD.

 

[shadowNINE]

The eternal question.

Though I have long said that my favorite Katatonia album is Brave Murder Day, I love it all. Both old (pre-Saw You Drown) and new (post-Sounds of Decay) are katatonic and excellent. They're just different.

 

[Aprilhäxan]

I'd surely say old cause I'm mostly in more extreme forms of music, but we have a plenty of good doom-death band nowadays and noone who sounds like Katatonia... So... new!

 

[LifeDepraved]

That's why I'm into newer Katatonia. It will forever be special and one of a kind, and a extreme metal lovers big secret love.

 

[myownsilence]

it has come in leaps and bounds.

I like the newer stuff, but Discouraged ones really has an edge to it.. Second to that LFDGD was a masterpiece of songwriting, and TGCD is a production feast.

Depends what I am in the mood for, but DODS was in my opinion a bit of a hash (ahh what have I said) compaired to todays stuff DODS does feel like a demo tape.. albeit a very very good one at that.

Can they keep it going (better bloody do cos the rest of the music out there is shit)

 

[84n44n]

New!

While I usually appreciate doom/death, the older stuff is too minimalist for me.
And I just happen to be a production whore. You'll find very little stuff older than, say, 1995 in my CD collection.

I listen to LFDGD, VE and TGCD a lot. I mean, a LOT. I do listen to some of the older stuff, but very rarely.

 

[MadTinus]

what is old and what is new?
bye bye

old = raw vox
new = clean vox

In my case: old ánd new, have been a fan since Jhva Elohim Meth/DoDS and went all along..

And yes, there are already several threads about this.

 

[Blakkheim]

i dont think raw and clean vox defines new and old. its not that easy anymore. it has started sounding weird to refer to something that was made 10 years ago as "new"... when will it be legit to call it old then?

 

[M3]

You have a point. Technically speaking, albums like DO are old. I guess everyone is just so used to calling everything since DO the new period. Personally, I'd call it the middle period. But as long as the band is continually evolving and refining their sound, the band will continue to progress. I mean, if a song like Unfurl is any indication of what's coming next, it looks like Katatonia has taken the sound of TGCD one step further. So eventually, even VE and TGCD will seem old compared to future material.

 

[scott89]

the new stuff for me. Although there's a few older tracks that i enjoy. TGCD is definately the best Katatonia album in my opinion.

yes i agree although i like VE more than TGCD just for the fact it was the 1st kata album i bought/heard

 

[Ned]

I discovered Katatonia by listening to their latest album and then I've gradually worked my way through their back catalogue. I definitely like both styles but if I had to pick one I'd pick their 'new' era. Favourite album is still probably TGCD but BMD is like no album I've ever heard. It has to be the darkest album ever; the sound is amazing.