When Katatonia released Brave Murder Day, they blew the roof off the doom metal genre, creating something unique - depressing and heavy but in an uptempo way, something generally not heard of in Doom. Unlike their debut album Brave Murder Day's compositions are of a rock nature - there exists many a driving rhythm and crunchy guitar sound but with a lot of effects given to clean guitar stuff. The vocals are wonderfully performed By Mikeal A. from the legendary Opeth and features all of his grunting goodness but back then his voice was a bit raspier and less refined as today. The clean vocals are only heard on Day, a lush hypnotic number giving us insight to progressing sounds where Katatonia was heading towards. The rest of the songs follow a similiar rock pattern, the short and simple Murder being the most accessible on the album and 12 and rainroom showing us the complexities that lay hidden beneath a rather simplistic style of metal. Katatonia has continued to reinvent themselves time and time again but I feel his is the album that broke them into a consistant and progressive style. It has class and charm - feeling both cold and comforting.
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