To coincide with the tour Katatonia have released their second single of the year  -‘Tonight’s Music’. The title track is taken from their last album, Last Fair Deal Gone Down, released in March. The EP also contains the tracks ‘Help Me Disappear’, and ‘O How I Enjoy The Light’.

Katatonia’s guitarist, Anders Nyström explains - “Help Me Disappear’ was originally supposed to be featured on the Tonight’s Decision album, a song we felt strongly about at composing stages, but unfortunately the song never got finished in the studio and was left aside without vocals and mixdown. Now the song is finally put down and is actually another hit warning, it just couldn’t sound more Katatonic.”

In the dying light of 2005 and Katatonia delivered their brand new single, ‘My Twin’ (a 4-track EP containing 3 exclusive tracks) and, shortly after, their decisive seventh full-length album, aptly titled ‘The Great Cold Distance’. The album was recorded in the summer of 2005 at Fascination Street Studios, Örebro, Sweden and was released early 2006 to universal acclaim. This was backed up soon afterwards by the release of follow-up single, ‘Deliberation’ and extensive touring throughout Europe in the Spring supported by label-mates Novembre and topped off with an American tour with Moonspell later on in the year, concluding a fantastic year for the band. Katatonia gained positive commercial and critical response to the album with many hailing it as the band’s greatest work. Two more singles were lifted from the album (’Deliberation’ and ‘July’)  while both singles were also accompanied by video tracks. The band went from strength to strength with their extensive touring & festival duties before the release of ‘Live Consternation’ in 2007, which captured the band live at their glorious best at the Summerbreeze festival in 2006. Katatonia would then resume writing for the eagerly awaited follow-up to ‘The Great Cold Distance’ after having completed a headline American tour in 2007.

With such a monumental album to follow, it was 2009 before Katatonia was ready to enter the studio for their eagerly awaited eighth studio album, ‘Night is the New Day’. It was recorded throughout July 2009 and was co-produced, engineered and mixed by David Castillo. Recording was divided between Studio Mega ( for drums) and Ghost Ward Studios, where most recording took place and which provided a dose of inspiration from the darker corners of life with it’s choice of location, as Anders describes: “Broken glass, blood on the walls at the front door to the building and threatening messages written on the elevator -
Even excrement and urine on the floor in the basement that makes you wonder if the caretaker is a serial killer himself.” 

Mastering was completed at Fascination Street Studios (where ‘The Great Cold Distance’ was recorded) with Jens Bogren. A continuation of the heaviness, depth & atmosphere of their previous album, ‘Night Is the New Day’ is also a more multi-dimensional effort - waltzing between prog moments, doom, folk and the classic melodic anthems that are the staple of Katatonia’s uncompromising sound, completed by the haunting tones of Jonas Renkse’s journeys of urban & emotional decay, & now joined by Frank Default on keyboards, notable for his work on the track ‘Unfurl’ from the ‘July’ EP - utilising his expertise to the fullest to
texture the soundscapes.

This biography is written by Peaceville, Katatonia’s label

Current Line-up:

Jonas Renkse - Lead and Backing Vocals
Anders Nyström - Rhythm/Lead Guitar, Mellotrone
Fred Norrman - Rhythm/Lead Guitar
Daniel Liljekvist - Drums
Mattias Norrman - Bass