nilzardo: Oh shit! Thank you so much guys! I love you! The joy I feel is undiscribable!.. (read)Matias: completely amazing !!!!!.. (read)Barney: Saw you in Belgium last night! Far too many people in there, but that's a good th.. (read)
All five gigs since the beginning of the current tour have sold out. Make sure to get your tickets in advance as they are not guaranteed to be available at the doors!
Also, if you or any of your friends have taken killer photos from the current tour, we want to see them! Email a link to photos@katatonia.com.
Watch the video for The Longest Year off of our new album Night is the New Day below. The video was directed by Charlie Granberg. As previously mentioned, we will be releasing The Longest Year as a four track EP on March 15th.
And in case you haven’t heard — we’re now on tour in Europe. Check the full list of tour dates here.
‘The Longest year’ EP is now available for pre-order from Omerch as an exclusive EP/t-shirt bundle. Also, a lot of brand new designed items such as t-shirts, girlies, hoodies, beanies, wristbands, mugs, stickers, dogtags, pendants and patches has been added to the Katatonia merchstore. Designs range from various motives with the old school logo, the mid era logo and the new logo, so no matter what your fave past or present era of the band is – you’re guaranteed to find something you’re looking for!
The Longest Year, a new four track EP from Swedish masters of melancholy Katatonia is released on Peaceville Records on March 15th.
Alongside new single The Longest Year, taken from the recent Night is the New Day album, this new EP also features the previously unreleased track Sold Heart, Day & Then the Shade remix and an alternative version of Idle Blood plus the videos for both The Longest Year directed by Charlie Granberg (Katatonia, My Dying Bride) and Day & Then The Shade directed by Lasse Hoile (Porcupine Tree, Opeth).
The EP is now available to pre-order from the Peaceville store. The video for The Longest Year will be online next week so check back for more details. Here are a couple of stills from the shoot.
We’re happy to announce that we’ve added a few gigs in a couple of territories we’ve never or seldom previously visited. The new dates include Bordeaux (France), Tel Aviv (Israel), Sofia (Bulgaria), St Petersburg (Russia) and Moscow (Russia). For more info, check the tour dates section.
We’re pleased to welcome our finnish friends and dark heavyweights Swallow The Sun as the direct support for the New Night Over Europe 2010 tour. Opening act on the tour will be the hypnotic German instrumentalists Long Distance Calling. Both bands have featured guest vocals by Jonas Renkse and rumours say there might be a chance that Jonas will join them one of the nights for an extra performance. We think this is nothing but an excellent fitting package and we’re sure you all feel the same, so come out and celebrate the darkness and sing the songs with us!
Katatonia have been nominated for a Manifest Award held by the Swedish Independent Musicproducers. The ceremony will take place on January 29 at Nalen in Stockholm.
The nominees in the ‘Best Hard Rock/Metal’ category are:
Abandon – The Dead End (Blackstarfoundation)
Candlemass – Death Magic Doom (Nuclear Blast)
Katatonia – Night Is The New Day (Peaceville)
Tribulation – The Horror (Pulverised)
The winner will be decided by a jury consisting of Bella Stenberg (Journalist, lecturer), Linnéa Olsson (writer, reviewer), David Noaksson (music journalist), Marcus Grahn (journalist, author) and Larsa Carlsson (editor Slavestate, writer, DJ).
