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KATATONIA: 'Day' Performance Clip From 'Sanctitude' DVD |  7 фев 2015 : |
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KATATONIA: 'July' Performance Clip From 'Last Fair Day Gone Night' |  16 авг 2014 : |
KATATONIA To Release 'Last Fair Day Gone Night' Four-Disc DVD/CD In September |  13 май 2014 : |
Video: KATATONIA Performs In Amstelveen Druing 'Unplugged & Reworked' Tour |  17 апр 2014 : |
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KATATONIA In Denver: Video Interview, Quality Performance Footage |  15 окт 2013 : |
KATATONIA: Footage Of San Francisco Performance |  12 сен 2013 : |
KATATONIA - 'Dethroned And Uncrowned' |  6 сен 2013 : |
KATATONIA |  20 авг 2013 : |
KATATONIA: Lyric Video For Reimagined 'The One You Are Looking For Is Not Here' |  20 июн 2013 : |
KATATONIA: 'Viva Emptiness' To Be Remixed, Remastered And Performed Live In Its Entirety |  17 июн 2013 : |
KATATONIA To Release 'Dethroned And Uncrowned' In September |  18 фев 2013 : |
KATATONIA: 'Lethean' Video Released |  29 авг 2012 : |
KATATONIA - \'Dead End Kings\' Full Album Stream online! |  14 авг 2012 : |
KATATONIA: Another New Song Available For Streaming |  31 июл 2012 : |
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KATATONIA: Audio Snippet Of Another New Song |  13 июл 2012 : |
KATATONIA Announces European Tour With ALCEST, JUNIUS |  21 июн 2012 : |
KATATONIA: 'Dead Letters' Lyric Video Released |  29 май 2012 : |
KATATONIA: New Album Title, Cover Artwork, Track Listing Revealed |  27 май 2012 : |
KATATONIA To Play Russian Shows Without Guitarist ANDERS NYSTRÖM |  17 май 2012 : |
THE GATHERING Singer To Guest On New KATATONIA Album |  13 май 2012 : |
False KATATONIA album title circulating |  13 май 2012 : |
KATATONIA: New Album Title Revealed |  7 май 2012 : |
KATATONIA Frontman Completes Laying Down Vocals On New Album |  30 мар 2012 : |
KATATONIA: New Video Update From The Studio |  18 фев 2012 : |
KATATONIA Completes Recording Drums For New Album |  28 янв 2012 : |
KATATONIA To Enter Studio On Monday |  2 янв 2012 : |
KATATONIA To Release New Album Before Next Summer |  17 ноя 2011 : |
KATATONIA To Be Rejoined By Former Bandmembers For Stockholm Show |  6 окт 2011 : |
KATATONIA\'s \'For Funerals To Come\' To Be Reissued With Bonus Tracks |  10 май 2011 : |
KATATONIA: Quality Footage Of London DVD-Shoot Concert |  24 мар 2011 : |
KATATONIA: \'Last Fair Deal\', \'Night Is The New Day\' Special Editions Due In April |  20 янв 2011 : |
KATATONIA Announces \'Last Fair Day Gone Night - An Evening With Katatonia\' Tour |  25 сен 2010 : |
KATATONIA: Stolen Guitars Returned |  20 сен 2010 : |
KATATONIA Guitars Stolen In Minnesota |  31 июл 2010 : |
KATATONIA To Release Special U.S. Tour Edition Of \'Night Is The New Day\' |  26 июл 2010 : |
KATATONIA At Finland's ILOSAARIROCK: Pro-Shot Performance Footage |  3 мар 2010 : |
KATATONIA - Neues Video online |  19 фев 2010 : |
KATATONIA To Reelase \'The Longest Day\' EP |  23 дек 2009 : |
KATATONIA Lineup Changes |  12 ноя 2009 : |
KATATONIA: \'Day And Then The Shade\' Video Released |  29 окт 2009 : |
KATATONIA Members Talk About \'Night Is The New Day\' |  14 сен 2009 : |
KATATONIA: New Song Available For Free Download |  27 авг 2009 : |
KATATONIA: In Mixing Mode |  19 авг 2009 : |
KATATONIA: New Album Pushed Back To November |  1 авг 2009 : |
KATATONIA: \'Night Is The New Day\' Artwork Preview Available |  23 июл 2009 : |
KATATONIA: New Album Title, Release Date Announced |  20 июл 2009 : |
KATATONIA: Third Part of Studio Diary |  19 июн 2009 : |
KATATONIA: Second Part of Studio Diary |  16 июн 2009 : |
KATATONIA: First Part of Studio Diary |  1 июн 2009 : |
KATATONIA To Enter Studio Next Month |  16 янв 2009 : |
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Shows in Cyprus and Russia confirmed |  29 авг 2008 : |
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KATATONIA: 'Studio Time Has Been Booked' |  13 окт 2007 : |
KATATONIA: Classic PEACEVILLE albums To Be Released On Limited-Edition Vinyl |  5 окт 2007 : |
KATATONIA Preparing To Enter 'Writing/Pre-Production Mode' |  13 мар 2007 : |
KATATONIA: 'Live Consternation' Live Album/DVD Due In May |  12 мар 2007 : |
KATATONIA: 'July' Video Posted Online |  26 янв 2007 : |
KATATONIA To Release New Single In March |  9 янв 2007 : |
KATATONIA: 5.1 Surround Sound Mix Of 'The Great Cold Distance' Due In March |  28 сен 2006 : |
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KATATONIA: \'Deliberation\' Video Posted Online |  4 апр 2006 : |
KATATONIA: New Single To Feature Exclusive Bonus Material |  10 сен 2005 : |
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KATATONIA Resume Recording New Album |  21 июл 2005 : |
KATATONIA Laying Down 'Low-Frequency Grooves' |  15 июл 2005 : |
KATATONIA Resume Work On New Album |  24 июн 2005 : |
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20 июл 2009

KATATONIA: Third Part of Studio Diary
 KATATONIA's Anders Nystrom has issued the following updates:
Third Part of Studio Diary
"After the midsummer weekend, it was time to get back to biz. The recording facalities down in Varberg were changed to David's own Ghost Ward studio (off the record referred to as "the rathole") which is located in a suburb north of Stockholm. This week's schedule was rhythm guitars, so I stepped into the picture together with Jonas and David to find a heavy distortion sound to fit Daniel's great drum production.
We recently entered a brand new collaboration with with Laboga amplifiers from Poland and we endorse both their Mr Hector and Aligator models. Obivously, the entire Monday was spent fooling around with different configurations of mics, speakers and knob settings. In the past, this procedure could very likely end up taking more than one day, but this time we found the "sweet spot" pretty much right away.
Laboga deliver fantastic quality and I believe we nailed the optimal setup for this record. We're talking low bottom heaviness, a mid crunch register which we like to refer to as "the drill", all perfectly pushed through the active EMG pickups of my wicked Mayones axes. The coloring and balance between the amps different equalizers and different distortion levels shows also in the clear high end resonance. Even full 6-string chords ring out beautifully seperated without turning to noise. It sounds expensive and pro.
When we came back on tuesday to start tracking we were disturbed by a foul smell. To enter the studio, you head into this kind of sketchy house located in a industrial area, take a couple of stairs down to the basement and enter a steel door that leads to a corridor where the studio is located like a rathole in the wall. But on the outside of the steeldoor there's this kinda elevator room with a sliding door, sometimes open, sometimes shut. The smell couldn't have come from anywhere else but there. We've had our suspicions before and they turned out to be true. None of us ever investigated what's behind the door, until now. A flashlight and a camera revealed that this tiny room is being a residence for bums and junkies and their grotesque needs. What was reeking as we passed by turned out to be piles of excrements and urine on the floor... Yay! We learned that in the upper building is a couple of floors with apartments used as "temporary solutions for temporary people"... Put two and two together. We're recording in a rathole, in hell!
The following days were just all out busy and pretty much looked the same. Get up at 8 am. Wait for David to pick us up in his Opel and then a quick stop at Coop forum (huge grocery store chain) for some breakfast. Walk down the rathole and pass by the stench of bums which is a wake-up call if your're still snooze mode. Track guitars. Lunch at Maestro. Track more guitars. Leave at 10 pm and go home to check emails (no internet in the rathole) and try to have a life for 2-3 hours. Get some sleep. Repeat.
Today's saturday and all rhythm guitars are done. The album has twisted into form and we're only hours behind schedule. Sunday is a day off and on monday we'll start with all the semi-dirty and clean guitar sounds. It's all coming alive!"
Fourth Part of Studio Diary
"It has been play time down the rathole! Like kids in a toy store we lined up a wide arsenal of analogue and digital pedals for any needs. We brought out all kinds of different effects to color both clean and dirty guitar parts as well as fx leads and anything in the twilight zone between guitar and synth sounds. Sometimes we've been wanting to go for a old broken 70's sound, maybe spiced with old analoge pedals such as Sovtek's Small Stone pedal that was built in the shell of an old landmine. Multieffect pedals such as the flagship in TC Electronics G-System, just as the Boss GT-3, my old companion for the last 10 years has been up and running to provide some of my custom settings maybe for the last time... From Guyatone, Seymour Duncan and Electro-harmonix we used various tube pedals such as a couple of overdrives, reverbs, stereo delays and tremolos and compressors. No need to put your trust in plug-ins, if you can have the real deal in hardware.
On the amplification side we explored the clean channels of both the Alligator and Mr. Hector amps and the good ol' rectifer together with Celestion equipped speaker cabs from Laboga. Great thick, full clean tone.
Instrument wise, the active emg's has done it's work and for the clean guitar parts we have been through various passive single coils, split humbuckers or a combination of both on a bunch of different top of the line guitars.
The tuning is an absolute crucial aspect to get a professional end result and since we detune to C (with further alternations),yet do not play neither 7 strings or baritones all our guitars have gone under a modification process called "plek" at a place called Guitar Labs. This is undoubtedly the most accurate and precise work you can apply to a guitar for the optimal intonation. Highly recommended.
Basically all guitars on the last album were played by me, but this time Jonas is playing a lot more of the clean and lead guitars himself, simply because he's been a very active composer for this record. It's a proven fact that often it's better to let the one who wrote the part also go ahead and lay it down since a certain feeling can get lost in the interpretation by another person when you have a lot of bending and vibrato, it's all in your fingers.
The summer has really swept big time over Sweden and the air down the rathole sucks. We have to keep the door open and have two fans on full effect to create some kind of circulation. Sitting down here it's hard to avoid thoughts of having outdoor barbecues, having an ice-cold beer down town, go swimming, eating your own reaped strawberrys with ice cream at your balcony, taking off on spontaneous bicycle rides without obligations and a goal, yeah that kind of shit i like to do in summer... but the fact is that we're down here in the rathole making the best album in our career, so that's gotta mean some kind of sacrifice right? We have a few days of edits and keys now and after that it's time to get Mattias "Kryptan" Norrman down for a session of bass guitar and glue the cracks of the tracks together".
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