Tuesday, June 10, 2014

KATATONIA: “I've been thinking about it. It might be a mix of the weather, the nature – that kind of barren environment – and also that Scandinavian folk music is very dark and depressing.

JONAS RENKSE, frontman for Swedish progressive, atmospheric metal warriors KATATONIA has commented (in a METAL HAMMER interview) regarding THE GUARDIAN's survey regarding the economic back round of heavy and extreme metal, of wealth and prosperity or working class and alienated.

 





 http://spak-individualthoughtpatterns.blogspot.com/2014/06/itp-v014-music-business-heavy-metal.html                                                                                                                                                                          
Last month, KATATONIA announced DANIEL LILJEKVIST has left the band as JP Asplund will take over on drums.










KATATONIA have unleashed a lyric video for the track "WAIT OUTSIDE", from the 10th anniversary of the bands classic release "Viva Emptiness", re-unleashed 10/28/2013. KATATONIA's  "Viva Emptiness" was re-issued on VINYL 11/25/2013 via PEACEVILLE RECORDS.                                                                                                                                
KATATONIA completed  a spring 2014 ACOUSTIC EUROPEAN tour.







  
KATATONIA unleashed "Dead End Kings" 8/27/2012 via PEACEVILLE RECORDS.


FROM KATATONIA: 

Get used to "svenskt vemod"!

FROM METAL HAMMER:
http://metalhammer.teamrock.com/news/2014-06-06/renkse-poverty-powered-nordic-metal

Thanks-Stay Metal, Stay Brutal-\m/ -l-