EXCLUSIVE FREE DOWNLOAD: KATATONIA – “FORSAKER”
Monday, November 2nd, 2009 at 1:00pm by MetalSucks
Katatonia’s Night Is the New Day comes out in the U.S. next Tuesday, November 10th and the rest of the world today… which basically means it’s out today! To celebrate, we’re offering the band’s first single “Forsaker” as a free download. If you like it (which you ought to if you know what’s good for you), believe you me when I say that the rest of the record has a lot more in store for you. Order Night Is the New Day here.
Listening now while I dump.
Everyone loves free shit !
This album crushes.
Got it today, it’s wicked!
Havent got album but know its gonna be killer because its fucking Katatonia.
Very good.
Yes not a rightclick only download!
Great album… listening to the whole thing right now, actually.
the chugga chugga riff kinda sounds like spheres of madness
Katatonia is amazing, cant wait to hear the whole album!
album is amazing.
looks like I’m the first commenter to not love this. It’s okay but it doesn’t do anything for me….better than that Mutinywithin song posted earlier
Still my favourite album this year – going to see them with Paradise Lost tomorrow. Wooh.
This album is fucking wicked. Easily one of my favorites from them
If it’s free, then why not?
no one would care about this cd except for the fact that the band has a history. this album is no good, just like the previous album.
i would love to love a new katatonia cd though.
I disagree 100%. I actually don’t really like Katatonia’s way older stuff. The first album that really got me hooked on them was Viva Emptiness. Then, TGCD was actually a step back imo. They lost some of the atmosphere and abstract sound from Viva, and went straight for the more typical “Progressive” sound, like time signature changes, longer songs, etc.
NITND totally changes that. They’ve taken the production up a notch (layers upon layers of sound), it’s more abstract, more progressive, more atmospheric, and just plain better than anything they’ve ever done before.
While I’m sure you’re right that there are some people excited for this album because of the band’s history, I think that they might be the ones most disappointed with this album since it’s a pretty big leap forward. Newcomers to this band are going to be absolutely thrilled about this album I think.
Long story short. NITND = Katatonia’s Lateralus
agreed, there are some real accomplishments on this album. “The Promise Of Deceit” is a great track.
Oh, also, I’m pretty sure Forsaker isn’t actually their first single. They’ve been distributing it through various online outlets (You could get it from their mailing list about a month ago actually), but it sounds like “Day and Then the Shade” is actually their first single.
I read a little excerpt from a review from Akerfeldt on their myspace page that gave it so much ball-licking praise. It’s no wonder because it sounds exactly like an Opeth album. Both bands are awesome but this album just didnt do it for me as I already have many Opeth albums.
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This is a great song, one of the best off this record, which is a great record. I love how heavy and melodic it is! Also, it sounds NOTHING like Opeth aside from the vocals sounding similar to Akerfeldt’s clean vocals.
I would put them more along the lines of a Euro Perfect Circle or a cleaner Enslaved than Opeth.