The Black Sessions

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The Black Sessions
The Black Sessions cover
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
Brave Yester Days
(2004)
The Black Sessions
(2005)


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:

The Black Sessions also contains one unreleased track from the sessions for Viva Emptiness, named Wait Outside.

[edit] Track listing

[edit] Disc one

  1. Teargas (from Last Fair Deal Gone Down)
  2. Right Into the Bliss (from Tonight's Decision)
  3. Criminals (from Viva Emptiness)
  4. Help Me Disappear (from Tonight's Music)
  5. Nerve (from Discouraged Ones)
  6. The Future of Speech (from Last Fair Deal Gone Down)
  7. Ghost of the Sun (from Viva Emptiness)
  8. I Am Nothing (from Tonight's Decision)
  9. Deadhouse (from Discouraged Ones)
  10. Passing Bird (from Last Fair Deal Gone Down)
  11. Sleeper (from Viva Emptiness)
  12. Sulfur (from Teargas)
  13. No Devotion (from Tonight's Decision
  14. Chrome (from Last Fair Deal Gone Down)
  15. A Premonition (from Viva Emptiness)

[edit] Disc two

  1. Dispossession (from Last Fair Deal Gone Down)
  2. Cold Ways (from Discouraged Ones)
  3. Nightmares by the Sea (from Tonight's Decision)
  4. O How I Enjoy the Light (from Tonight's Music)
  5. Evidence (from Viva Emptiness)
  6. March 4 (from Teargas)
  7. I Break (from Discouraged Ones)
  8. For My Demons (from Tonight's Decision)
  9. Omerta (from Viva Emptiness)
  10. Tonight's Music (from Last Fair Deal Gone Down)
  11. Stalemate (from Discouraged Ones)
  12. Wait Outside (unreleased track from Viva Emptiness recording sessions)
  13. Fractured (from Tonight's Decision)
  14. Sweet Nurse (from Last Fair Deal Gone Down)
  15. 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.

  1. Ghost of the Sun
  2. Criminals
  3. Teargas
  4. I Break
  5. I Am Nothing
  6. Sweet Nurse
  7. Tonight's Music
  8. For My Demons
  9. Chrome
  10. The Future of Speech
  11. Complicity (not included in CD compilation; from Viva Emptiness)
  12. Burn the Remembrance (not included in CD compilation; from Viva Emptiness)
  13. Evidence
  14. Deadhouse
  15. Murder (not included in CD compilation; from Brave Murder Day)

[edit] Credits

[edit] Tracks from Discouraged Ones

[edit] Tracks from Tonight's Decision

[edit] Tracks from Teargas, Last Fair Deal Gone Down, and Tonight's Music

[edit] Tracks from Viva Emptiness

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