Katatonia

[Drumtier]

Ich weiß, aber für dich wäre es eben von deinen üblichen Hörgewohnheiten so weit entfernt wie Katatonia bei mir teilweise

[Drumtier]

Ich weiß nicht ob hier auch schon einmal die Rede davon aber die Bandmitglieder haben es in Interviews schon einmal anklingen lassen, dass sie auch eine Unplugged Tour machen wollen mit allen möglichen Songs also nicht nur D&U. Die ist jetzt da:
http://katatonia.com/2013/12/unplugged- ... tour-2014/
Leider eine kleine Tour und dementsprechend kein Österreich-Termin und ich glaub net, dass es sich auszahlt dafür nach München zu fahren...

[Oliver Passgang]

Eigentlich ein Pflichttermin. Ich muss mir nur dann auch mal die Akustik-Platte anhören...

(Randbemerkung: Welcher Depp setzt so eine Tour bitte im Mai an? )

[salisbury]

20 Jahre "Dance Of December Souls".

Auf Facebook erzählt Jonas ein paar Anekdoten dazu:

20 years ago, on this very day, our debut album was released with the exquisitely paired title 'Dance of December Souls'. Lets celebrate this with Jonas giving you a little anecdot from that time...

"After a gig that we went to in Uppsala (I think it was with Immolation and Massacre) we started talking to this guy that we knew briefly who had heard our demo. He was a bass player and he said he really loved our style. We thought he seemed to have the right approach, so we finally had a new bass player; Guillaume Le Huche. Started writing new songs with him. Sometimes we went to graveyards at night to find the right atmosphere for what we were doing. Great times. Got a few record deal offers from small underground labels, which felt nice. We decided to go with the Swedish label No Fashion Records. They had released the first Marduk and also signed Dissection and Unanimated, so it felt like a great label to be on. The new songs we made were more Doom Metal and less Black Metal as on the demo (thanks to the great inspiration from Bathory). We listened to Paradise Lost all the time but we had also explored a band that was about to become very important for the three of us: Fields Of The Nephilim. Their guitar work with a lot of delay was blowing our minds. We also got our first gig offer, which was taking place the very day before we were going back to Gorysound to record our debut album. We needed a second guitar player to do the gig and Guillaume knew a guy who had potential. He rehearsed with us a couple of times and I think he thought our songs were simple and boring (he was the shredder type) but he agreed on doing the gig with us. When we came to the venue I was already disgustingly nervous. Edge Of Sanity was supposed to headline but they
couldn't come, so Hypocrisy were there instead. Also Austrian band Disharmonic Orchestra played, plus a bunch of local bands, with us as openers. We had decided to play the "Jhva Elohim Meth"-demo through, three songs and then walk off. Anders was going to sing, as I was unsure of if I could sing and play drums at the same time. At sound check we realized he had a very short cable for his guitar so he couldn't be in the middle of the stage, he was forced to stand pretty much right by his amp. Just before the show our session guitarist said he was going to do something on stage, a "stage show". We had no idea what was going to happen. All of this plus the gig itself made me so nervous I had serious plans of escaping the venue and taking the train home. Luckily I was convinced to stick around, but what a gig! The first thing that happens after my "one, two, three, four" count is that Guillaume bangs his head right into the head of Anders' guitar, falls back and onto the floor. He has to perform sitting for a while. Our session guitarist pulls up a guy from the audience. The guy is dressed up as a priest. Session guy brings out a knife and "cuts the throat" of the priest. Priest is spitting blood all over the front row. Looking back on it I think it was a great thing to do at a first ever gig. But sitting there trying to play the drums with no idea what was going to happen, but of course having to watch it, well... it was kind of distracting.
A little traumatized, the three of us board the train to Finspång the day after. We are however very proud that we made it, and very fueled up for all the new songs that we are going to record. Hooking up with Dan again is great. He's got big plans for the album as well. The recording is going really well. Dan finds a big knife in Guillaumeʼs bass case one day, we didn't know it was there, we found it funny but Dan thought it was scary. I think we recorded for five days and mixed in one day. Bass, drums and one guitar was recorded live. Second guitar, vocals and keyboards were done afterwards. The weird "un-fat" guitar sound came from Anders connecting the distortion pedal and the delay pedal in the wrong order. But the unique tone shines through and I actually like it now. "Dance of December Souls" was born. Born, but not delivered. I think we had to wait more than a year to have it released, which was a grim long time for some 18-year olds who had just climbed step one on their ladder to stardom and world domination".

[Drumtier]

Habs auch gelesen, nette Geschichte

[Drumtier]

Der nächste Ausstieg bei KATATONIA, Schlagzeuger Daniel Liljekvist verlässt die Band. Normalerweise wär das für mich kein allzu großes Problem aber die angesprochenen "falschen Gründe" machen mich schon irgendwie nachdenklich.
http://katatonia.com/2014/04/daniel-lil ... katatonia/

[Havoc]

Da steigt echt einer nach dem anderen aus...ob das auf Dauer gut geht?
Würde mich nicht wundern wenn irgendwann die Meldung kommt, dass die Band sich komplett auflöst.

[Eike]

Kommt wohl drauf an, ob die anderen noch day jobs haben. Das gemeinsame statement verstehe ich so, dass die Band finanziell mehr kostet als einbringt. Bei dem ein oder anderen wirft das halt irgendwann die Frage nach Prioritäten auf. Wer einen guten und einträglichen day job hat, kann sich das Luxushobby Band noch leisten, andere eben nicht unbedingt.

[Oliver Passgang]

Wobei mich genau das wundert. Ich habe erst auf der letzten richtigen Tour ein Interview mit der Band geführt. Dort hatte ich den Eindruck, dass es für KATATONIA besser denne je läuft. Hm.

[Havoc]

Ist von den Katatonen eigentlich Albumtechnisch demnächst noch was zu erwarten? Bestehen die mittlerweile wieder aus festen Bandmitgliedern oder sind dort nur
Sessionmusiker am Start? Die letzte Scheibe hat ja jetzt auch wieder drei Jahre auf dem Buckel.
Zuletzt haben die ja wirklich einige Live-Releases auf den Markt gebracht und halt die Akustik-Dead End Kings-Scheibe die ich immer noch nicht besitze, da
irgendwie nicht so wichtig für mich. Sind die Live-Sachen zu empfehlen?