Do I have to bump this again?
I got Last Fair Deal Gone Down and The Great Cold Distance as Xmas presents. Both are very good albums! Now the only Katatonia album I don't have is Dance of December Souls. I've noticed that it's quite difficult to rank Katatonia albums! Many are almost equally good. But I think I like Tonight's Decision the least.
Nooo I absolutely love TD and it feels very underrated for me, the only thing I'd change on it is get rid of No Good Can Come of This and Strained as they're pretty weak and put the 2 B-sides (No Devotion and Fractured) in there instead, as they're much better. It has an amazing atmosphere, and it's very consistent other than these two songs overall.
Well, TGCD is an absolute masterpiece imo, but Last Fair Deal Gone Down... for me it's an album of really good songs but I don't know... It has the least of this "you should listen to this as an album" feel from all Katatonia albums imo. It's just not so atmospheric. I like almost all of the album, but for some reason the whole thing doesn't grab me that much...
Yeah, there are many great songs on TD (For My Demons, I Am Nothing, Black Session), but it doesn't grab me as a whole, unlike the other albums. The production isn't very good either, I wonder why they had to doubletrack Jonas' vocals for most of the album. Anders has mentioned that he hates Fractured (
https://thearsource.com/archives/anders-nystrom-katatonia-top-5-worst-katatonia-songs)!
TGCD is definitely a masterpiece and LFDGD is a very good album too.
Has anyone listened to October Tide? It was formed by Jonas Renkse and Fredrik Norrman. I have Rain Without End and it's definitely a masterpiece!
Jonas was (and still is, judging by the live videos of Murder) a great growler! But I have to say he's better at clean singing.