by Monica Apostol
ARTmania Festival Sibiu opens a new page in the history of rock events and confirms for the first time in the Large Square of Sibiu Katatonia on Friday and Pain Of Salvation on Saturday, during July 29 and July 30, 2016.
Katatonia comes back in Romania, playing for the first time at ARTmania Festival, Friday, July 29. Their 10th studio album, entitled ’The Fall Of Hearts’, is set for release on the 20th of May 2016. “This album is probably everything we unknowlingly ever dreamed of to release. It’s a bleak but adventurous journey through our elements, we haven’t held back, we have pushed to get forward and backward in the ever spiralling night of our musical legacy.” kata“The Fall Of Hearts” was recorded in Stockholm’s Studio Gröndahl & Tri-lamb Studio, and was self-produced by Anders Nyström & Jonas Renkse. This is the first record to feature new drummer Daniel ’Mojjo’ Moilanen and recently recruited guitarist Roger Öjersson (Tiamat), who came in just in time to sprinkle some blistering solos on the album.
Katatonia is a Swedish metal band formed in Stockholm in 1991 by Jonas Renkse and Anders Nyström. The band started as a studio-only project for the duo, as an outlet for the band’s love of death metal. Increasing popularity lead them to add more band members for live performances, though outside of the band’s founders, the lineup was constantly changing, revolving door of musicians throughout the 1990s, notably including Mikael Åkerfeldt of the band Opeth for a period. After two death/doom albums, Dance of December Souls (1993) and Brave Murder Day (1996), problems with Renkse’s vocal chords coupled with new musical influences lead the band away from the screamed vocals of death metal to a more traditional, melodic form of heavy metal music.
The band released two more albums, Discouraged Ones (1998) and Tonight’s Decision (1999), before settling into a stable quintet lineup for all of 2000’s. The band released four more albums with said lineup – Last Fair Deal Gone Down (2001), Viva Emptiness (2003), The Great Cold Distance (2006), and Night Is the New Day (2009), with the band slowly moving away from their metal sound while adding more progressive rock sounds to their work over time. While lineup changes started up again into the 2010’s, Renkse and Nyström persisted, and the band continued to release music, including Dead End Kings (2012) and their most recent, their tenth studio album, The Fall of Hearts, released on May 20, 2016.
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