What are you talking about?! Dance of December Souls is fucking amazing! I guess it varies with perspective, but really, Katatonia were the masters of Doom metal back in their prime. If you can show me any other extreme-metal CD from around the same time that can make me feel such utter sadness, I'll.... pat you on the back or something???
I quite liked The Jelly Jam, even though I was never a big King's X fan... if I remember rightly, I gave them quite a complementary review for this site... ah well, different strokes for different folks, I guess.