Katatonia

The Fall of Hearts

So I watched a video recently of "great gateway albums" into the genre of metal (Not that I need it, but it was intriguing none the less) and was curious about this one in particular based on description. Truth be told this thing is barely metal at all. It's got more grit in the guitars than the average hard rock band, but that's about it.

Overall it's a good album. Well-played, sung, produced, paced, all that jazz. However it never rises above being well done prog for me. It's not ... read more

Since I'm going to see them live (along with Sólstafir) in a few weeks, it's time to know something about this band's discography. Nice way to start it btw.