Katatonia are confirmed to appear at Tuska Open Air Metal Festival, Helsinki, Finland on July 23rd.

Keep it in the family! Katatonia baby and kid’s clothes in different models, various sizes and many colors now available for the first time from:

Since Katatonia covers many different styles of music, it is important for guitarist Anders Nyström to have a wide variety of tones at his fingertips. Pickup-wise, his new signature Mayones guitars will have AHB-1 Blackouts active pickups, high-outputTB-6 Duncan Distortion trembuckers, tremendously versatile SHPR-1b P-Rails,and smooth and fat SCR-1n Cool Rails to help him get the dirtiest of the dirty and the cleanest of the clean.

Here’s why Anders chose Seymour Duncan: “I wanted the best, and I got the best! With Seymour Duncan’s top-of-the-line arsenal of both active and passive pickups — and even the inventive humbucker/single-coil hybrids in between — I have finally found the perfect configuration for my guitars to go from a loud, fierce bite to a mellow, warm sparkle in the blink of an eye. I’m thrilled to have these pickups installed to deliver my ultimate tone! Thank you Seymour Duncan!”

This one’s for you Greece! We’ve added one more special show to the Last Fair Day Gone Night 20th anniversary tour in Athens. The show starts at 21:30 and the ticket Price (Presale & At the door) is 30 Euro.Tickets can be obtained from Ticket House & Metal Era (Athens), Musicland (Thessaloniki) & Ticket Pro (online). See you there!!!

Katatonia are confirmed to appear at Slovenia’s Metal Camp on July 13th.

Anders Nyström, also known as Blakkheim, cofounder of Swedish metal band KATATONIA, is the newest member of the Fernandes family of artists.

“Together with distortion and delay the Fernandes Sustainer is simply the most brilliant invention ever made in the guitar world! I can now make my defined musical signature whisper, sing, weep or squeal by my own fingers. I’m a Sustainer addict for life!!!” - Anders Nyström

20 years of Katatonia going strong calls for a celebration and we’ll be doing just that by throwing five very special anniversary gigs in Europe this coming May presented as the ‘Last Fair Day Gone Night – An Evening With Katatonia’ tour 2011.

We’ve decided to play the entire ‘Last Fair Deal Gone Down’ album front to back as that’s the one album that got us true worldwide recognition for the first time, but 2011 is also the album’s 10^th anniversary so re-visiting this album seems more fitting than any other record we’ve done. A second set will follow that will see us play a mix of tracks from the rest of our catalogue. We’ll be doing some fan favourites classics but also look into a couple of obscure B-sides and such that we’ve never or hardly played live before. Together you should get over two hours of live music on this last fair day gone night.

Besides the standard tickets, which will go on sale this Wednesday Jan 19^th, we’ve decided to reserve 70 tickets per show for VIP’s who will be up for some real nice treats.

If you’re one of those VIP’s you will receive a Katatonia tour messenger bag upon arrival filled with exclusive items such as a t-shirt exclusive to that particular show, an exclusive VIP laminate, a + 20 page tour programme (that we’re all busy writing as I’m typing this), a ltd edition vinyl of our latest album ‘Night is The New Day’ and a bunch more cool Katatonia merch items.

But that’s not all; all VIP’s will have a dedicated meet ‘n greet with the whole band so we can shake hands, have your picture taken and hang out for a chat! After that you can watch us sound check for about an hour where you’ll hear some songs from the set list and watch us prepare the show. Then it’s dinner time so you can go out and grab a bite while you’ll be confident to learn that your VIP laminate will allow you back inside the venue a bit earlier than anyone else, so you’ll have a smooth and free picking to where you like to position yourself.

The London UK show will be filmed for a DVD

Last but not least; right now we’re very busy talking to all our equipment endorsers for them to make some goods available that we’ll combine into one ‘grand prize’! All VIP’s will automatically enter into a draw for one lucky guy or girl to win this ultimate prize, which we’ll reveal the details about in the next coming weeks. See it as a nice extra bonus already and you can’t get disappointed….

Head over to the tour dates for more detailed information. VIP tickets are on sale as of now and standard tickets will go up on sale this Wednesday.

If you chose to get a VIP ticket you should be prepared to be at the venue around 2pm on show day. Exact times will vary per show but you’ll be notified in advance of all confirmed details.

We hope you’re just as much excited about this special celebration as we are! See you at the show and lets have a toast for the last fair day gone night!

To all our friends over in India, thank you for making our visit and subsequent show at Mood Indigo a great success, we loved playing for you guys and hope to return in the not too distant future. And if you didn’t manage to get hold of one of our special event shirts on the day, we have some available now via our merchandise partner for the event. Head over to http://www.rock-robe.in/ and grab yourself one while stocks last.

2010 was a tough yet awesome year for Katatonia! We lost some old dear band members, but found new blood in our touring line-up! The ‘Night Is The New Day’ tour maxed out on 100+ gigs and took us all over the world where we played to old friends in familiar territories, but also to new friends in countries we’d never visited before. Thanks to all our fans, friends and collaborators for a killer ride! Now we stand at the threshold to 2011 and that means much more than just a new year because this is the year Katatonia celebrate its 20th year anniversary! We’ve some very, very special surprises coming up during the next 12 months so get ready to enjoy both new and old chapters (!) Happy new year everybody!!! See you on the other side…

A whooping 16 flights later of cheating timezones, gravity and laws of nature across the continents we just made it home in time to spend christmas with our families.

Our last show in Mumbai, India was simply amazing! You guys really fullfilled any and all of our expectations and we see it as a privilege to have been one of the few international metal bands ever to be invited to play for such a big amount of Indian metal fans – thank you!

We’ll be back with a little recap on the year 2010 next, until then happy holidays everyone!

Katatonia in Mumbai, India 2010