Katatonia

City Burials

City Burials is a Gothic piece of Melodic Prog-Metal, dark and beautiful in its use of atmosphere. The album relishes in its mix of technicality in the drums, bass and guitars, while maintaining a sense of grounded splendour though the keyboards and vocals. The problem is i could easily describe their last 3 or 4 albums the exact same way...

Katatonia are a Swedish Progressive Metal band, who have been making music since the early 90s, with a demo recording released as early as 1991. Their ... read more

After being slightly disappointed with The Fall of Hearts album, which was then followed by a hiatus with the band, I was overjoyed to hear they were back and hopefully fully recharged and ready to blow me away. From what I've read, this record was originally being written as a solo album for Jonas (vocalist) which I think really shows in a lot of the more reserved parts of these songs.

Unfortunately I just think a lot of this record misses a lot of the punch and creativity present in the ... read more