The Black Sessions
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The Black Sessions | ||
Compilation album by Katatonia | ||
Released | February 21, 2005 | |
Recorded | July 1997 through November 2002 | |
Genre | Doom metal | |
Length | 03:26:25 | |
Label | Peaceville | |
Producer(s) | Katatonia, Thomas Skogsberg, Jocke Petterson | |
Katatonia chronology | ||
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Brave Yester Days (2004) |
The Black Sessions (2005) |
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The Black Sessions is a 3-disc (2 CD, 1 DVD) best-of album from Katatonia. It contains the material from Katatonia's recent era, which mainly consists of shoegaze/goth rock material, as well as some influences from doom metal.
Contents |
[edit] Included Material
This compilation features selections taken from the following albums:
- Discouraged Ones (1998)
- Tonight's Decision (1999)
- Teargas (2001)
- Last Fair Deal Gone Down (2001)
- Tonight's Music (2001)
- Viva Emptiness (2003)
The Black Sessions also contains one unreleased track from the sessions for Viva Emptiness, named Wait Outside.
[edit] Track listing
[edit] Disc one
- Teargas (from Last Fair Deal Gone Down)
- Right Into the Bliss (from Tonight's Decision)
- Criminals (from Viva Emptiness)
- Help Me Disappear (from Tonight's Music)
- Nerve (from Discouraged Ones)
- The Future of Speech (from Last Fair Deal Gone Down)
- Ghost of the Sun (from Viva Emptiness)
- I Am Nothing (from Tonight's Decision)
- Deadhouse (from Discouraged Ones)
- Passing Bird (from Last Fair Deal Gone Down)
- Sleeper (from Viva Emptiness)
- Sulfur (from Teargas)
- No Devotion (from Tonight's Decision
- Chrome (from Last Fair Deal Gone Down)
- A Premonition (from Viva Emptiness)
[edit] Disc two
- Dispossession (from Last Fair Deal Gone Down)
- Cold Ways (from Discouraged Ones)
- Nightmares by the Sea (from Tonight's Decision)
- O How I Enjoy the Light (from Tonight's Music)
- Evidence (from Viva Emptiness)
- March 4 (from Teargas)
- I Break (from Discouraged Ones)
- For My Demons (from Tonight's Decision)
- Omerta (from Viva Emptiness)
- Tonight's Music (from Last Fair Deal Gone Down)
- Stalemate (from Discouraged Ones)
- Wait Outside (unreleased track from Viva Emptiness recording sessions)
- Fractured (from Tonight's Decision)
- Sweet Nurse (from Last Fair Deal Gone Down)
- Black Session (from Tonight's Decision)
[edit] Disc three
Disc three is a live DVD performance of Katatonia in Krakow, Poland, while Katatonia was touring in support of Viva Emptiness.
- Ghost of the Sun
- Criminals
- Teargas
- I Break
- I Am Nothing
- Sweet Nurse
- Tonight's Music
- For My Demons
- Chrome
- The Future of Speech
- Complicity (not included in CD compilation; from Viva Emptiness)
- Burn the Remembrance (not included in CD compilation; from Viva Emptiness)
- Evidence
- Deadhouse
- Murder (not included in CD compilation; from Brave Murder Day)
[edit] Credits
[edit] Tracks from Discouraged Ones
- Jonas Renkse - drums, guitars, lead vocals
- Anders Nyström - guitars, keyboards, backing vocals
- Fred Norrman - guitars
- Micke Oretoft - bass guitar
- All music and lyrics written by Nyström/Renkse.
[edit] Tracks from Tonight's Decision
- Jonas Renkse - lead and backing vocals
- Anders Nyström - guitars, keyboards, backing vocals
- Fred Norrman - guitars, bass guitar
- Dan Swanö - drums
- All music and lyrics by Nyström/Renkse, except Nightmares by the Sea by Jeff Buckley.
[edit] Tracks from Teargas, Last Fair Deal Gone Down, and Tonight's Music
- Jonas Renkse - lead and backing vocals
- Anders Nyström - lead/rhythm guitar, keyboards
- Fred Norrman - lead/rhythm guitar
- Daniel Liljekvist - drums
- Mattias Norrman - bass guitar
- All music written by Nyström/Renkse/Norrman.
- All lyrics written by Renkse.
[edit] Tracks from Viva Emptiness
- Jonas Renkse - vocals, guitars
- Anders Nyström - guitars, keyboards
- Fred Norrman - guitars
- Mattias Norrman - bass guitar
- Daniel Liljekvist - drums, percussion
- All songs written by Nyström/Renkse except A Premonition written by F. Norrman/Nyström/Renkse.
- All lyrics written by Renkse.
Katatonia |
Jonas Renkse - Anders Nyström - Fred Norrman - Mattias Norrman - Daniel Liljekvist |
Discography |
Albums: Brave Murder Day - Dance of December Souls - Discouraged Ones - For Funerals to Come - Jhva Elohim Meth... The Revival - Last Fair Deal Gone Down - My Twin - Saw You Drown - Sounds of Decay - Split with Primordial - Teargas - The Great Cold Distance - Tonight's Decision - Tonight's Music - Viva Emptiness |
Compilations: W.A.R. Compilation Vol. 1 - Brave Yester Days - The Black Sessions |