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| 4.0 excellent | Xenorazr | January 26th 17 |
Brave Murder Day's unhinged cousin, a little less similar in structure but ultimately consistent with the entrancing melodies from before. I'd say go fetch a copy, but since it probably comes with any presently available copy of Brave Murder Day, you should be set.
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| 0.0 | Skyline28 | March 16th 16 |
And here I thought that Katatonia completely abandoned the sound forged on 'Brave Murder Day' after one release. 'Sounds of Decay' strays further into traditional death/doom territory than their full length masterpiece sounding a bit like a more sophisticated Paradise Lost during their 'Gothic' period but still has the hypnotic atmosphere that made 'Brave Murder Day' so special. If you liked that album and are hankering for more music in that vein check this EP out.
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| 0.0 | Handyman003 | July 23rd 14 |
By the time of 1997's Sounds of Decay EP, Sweden's Katatonia had almost entirely abandoned the slothful doom of their early days to embrace a driving, generally mid-paced style of death metal. Previewed a year earlier on the Brave Murder Day album, this newfound energy coincided with the temporary involvement of Opeth vocalist Mikael Åkerfeldt, and effectively marked a transition period for the enduring Swedes that would eventually see them embrace goth metal a few years down the line. But for now, pure death offerings like "Nowhere," "At Last," and "Inside the Fall" retained the tried and true Cookie Monster vocal approach, while stacking ever more power chords within deepening layers of baleful guitar harmonies. And you know what, the death metal approach doesn't hurt. The closing "Untrue" is another matter, revisiting somber doom for perhaps the final time before the aforementioned evolution began in earnest.
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| 4.0 excellent | doofy | January 13th 24 |
| 5.0 classic | quetzal | August 24th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | Nagrarok | December 13th 20 |
| 3.5 great | Zaleb | July 19th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | Ziopsis | January 18th 20 |
| 3.0 good | Troggy | September 17th 19 |
| 4.5 superb | Aske | September 13th 19 |
| 3.5 great | Blurbs | February 16th 19 |
| 2.5 average | adios | February 2nd 19 |
| 4.5 superb | bSmith | August 7th 18 |
| 4.5 superb | Fear | December 27th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | KILL | February 26th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | Bierlag | October 24th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | trvvve | September 25th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | Esproc | August 30th 15 |
| 5.0 classic | naju890 | November 11th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | heck | August 5th 14 |
| 3.0 good | Kriss | March 9th 14 |
| 4.5 superb | msm008 | January 11th 14 |
| 4.5 superb | Solaire | November 10th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | Marth | August 21st 12 |
| 3.5 great | Phate72 | February 13th 12 |
| 3.0 good | cb123 | August 19th 11 |
| 3.5 great | YUJOS | May 15th 11 |
| 2.5 average | Hoenir | April 8th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | MO | April 8th 11 |
| 3.5 great | Mikk | November 3rd 10 |
| 3.5 great | Hilty | October 12th 10 |
| 3.5 great | Asaura | April 11th 09 |
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