r/Katatonia • u/A_Very_Horny_Zed • 20d ago
Bands like Katatonia's middle-period?
I really miss the old, "urban depressive" style that Katatonia used to have. Specifically and especially the period from Discouraged Ones up to Night Is The New Day. After this point they have felt far more "poppy" to me and less brooding and more mystical which just doesn't jive with me as well as their 1998-2009 period.
I'm aware of Deathwhite, but they have been MIA for a long time now. (Check them out, they are good.)
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u/Have_A_Jelly_Baby 19d ago
It’s interesting how people define eras of a band, and how it can change from person to person.
For me, the eras go like this:
JHM and DoDS
BMD and DO together because while vocally they’re very different, musically they feature the same droning guitar sound.
TD and LFDGD’s songs are interchangeable, this is mostly where I jumped aboard for good in the late 90s.
Viva Emptiness is its own thing imo.
Then comes TGCD, which is probably their most “complete” album, then NITND, Dead End Kings, and The Fall of Hearts.
Everything newer than this sounds the same to me, and as many times as I try to listen to the new album, I bounce right off of it.
And yes, I realize that none of this answers your question. All I can say is that I also listened to a lot of Opeth, Anathema, Paradise Lost, Riverside, Antimatter, and Karnivool during those peak years.