City Burials, by Katatonia

City Burials

by Katatonia

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Dean Thom Best Katatonia album. Just beautiful from the very first note.

gebs A little more straightforward than their previous record, but it brims with the same successful ingredients that made me succumb to their breed of dark, somber prog. Favorite track: City Glaciers.

Frederick Squier Playing Katatonia is always an emotional roller coaster. These songs are both lovey and disturbing at the same time. I rate this album one of their best. Favorite track: Behind The Blood.

Niall Macdonald The exceptional growth, and maturity of Katatonia really shines through in this latest album. It gives me goose bumps every time I listen to it, and for me, is a beacon of hope in these dark times. Favorite track: Neon Epitaph.

Secret Seraph Full of emotion without losing the rock feel. Well-balanced mix of hope and despair. Absolutely love this. Favorite track: Behind The Blood.

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1.	Heart Set To Divide 05:29	buy track
2.	Behind The Blood 04:37	buy track
3.	Lacquer 04:42	buy track
4.	Rein 04:20	buy track
5.	The Winter Of Our Passing 03:18	buy track
6.	Vanishers 04:56	buy track
7.	City Glaciers 05:30	buy track
8.	Flicker 04:44	buy track
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City Burials - Katatonia’s new studio opus of absorbing, soaring progressive rock & meticulously crafted doses of melancholy on CD

Formed in 1991 by Jonas Renkse & Anders Nyström, and transitioning from early pioneers of the rising black/death/doom movement, to powerhouses of the progressive metallic rock genre, the Swedish connoisseurs of melancholy return with their stellar new opus, City Burials - the band’s eleventh studio album, & first since 2016’s haunting The Fall of Hearts was brought before the world.

With the winds of a new direction steering the band on their latest journey, City Burials stands as Katatonia’s new triumph of deep & enigmatic progressive rock – the fruits of a rejuvenating and profound chapter in the band’s legacy; a catalyst for its creators, with a collection of moments constructed out of the fragments of an ever-evolving life. Compiled into one of their most important modern works and statements to date, the finely-honed instrumentation provides a multi-textured backdrop with the voice of Jonas Renkse guiding us through these latest trials of loss and ruin.

Beyond their core creative duo, Katatonia are very much a full-blown band, and the chemistry between Jonas, Anders and their band mates – bassist Niklas Sandin, drummer Daniel Moilanen and most recent recruit, guitarist Roger Öjersson – has never sounded more potent, with City Burials being the first album Katatonia have made since Öjersson became a full-time member.

Inspired by an injection of fresh blood into Katatonia’s creative brew, City Burials is an album that sees the band reclaim part of their heavy metal roots, via several moments of exuberant, old school classicism, deftly woven into these new songs’ kaleidoscopic fabric.

City Burials was produced by Nyström/Renkse and recorded at Soundtrade Studios, Tri-Lamb Studios & The City Of Glass, throughout October & November 2019, with engineering work handled by Karl Daniel Lidén. The album also features a guest appearance by Anni Bernhard, the voice behind Stockholm based act Full of Keys. Artwork appears courtesy of Lasse Hoile, the image itself representing the ongoing era of the Dead End King.

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released April 24, 2020

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