Katatonia - Nightmares as Extensions of the Waking State (2025) [Official Digital Download]

At this point, you probably know what you're getting when you click play on a Katatonia album and that's not necessarily a bad thing. This wasn't always the case; as I've said before, the band have been marked by "eras", several consecutive albums that hit on a theme or, more aptly, a timbre. However, their last few releases seemed to oscillate between a more progressive, "open" style (The Fall of Hearts, City Burials) and a darker, heavier style (Dead End Kings, Sky Void of Stars). Nightmares as Extensions of the Waking State (heretofore referred to as Nightmares) seems to be the band's first attempt to reconcile the two styles, creating an album that sounds, more than ever before, like you might imagine what modern Katatonia sounds like. It is an attempt to distill this new sound, including all of its parts, and both benefits and suffers from this.

If you're a long time Katatonia fan and you click play on "Thrice", the track which opens the release, you should immediately make the Leonardo DiCaprio face and go "Night Is the New Day!" The opening track sounds so much like that release, with its signature, chuggy riff and overall air of sleek, metallic threat. But "The Liquid Eye" is nothing like that; in fact, it feels like something off of City Burials or the The Fall of Hearts, with that more energetic style of guitars, accompanied by the heart-enchantingly soaring lead. It's more dynamic, less heavy, connecting more to the loose, abstract melancholy of Katatonia's late career.

TRACKLIST

1. Katatonia - Thrice
2. Katatonia - The Liquid Eye
3. Katatonia - Wind of no Change
4. Katatonia - Lilac
5. Katatonia - Temporal
6. Katatonia - Departure Trails
7. Katatonia - Warden
8. Katatonia - The Light Which I Bleed
9. Katatonia - Efter Solen
10. Katatonia - In the Event of



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