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While Night is the New Day has been released across Europe today, the U.S. release date looms near on November 10th. If you pre-order the CD through Newbury Comics, your copy will include a limited autographed booklet. Pre-order from Newbury Comics now.
Katatonia will have a signing session at Hellraiser Records before the gig in Leeds next Saturday. Session will start at 4pm. The address is 97 Kirk Gate, Leeds (right beside the venue).
Katatonia’s new album Night Is The New Day is released on Monday. The album has been attracting rave reviews and is eagerly awaited by the band’s legions of fans around the globe. In the lead up to the album’s release the band’s MySpace, facebook and twitter accounts have been overwhelmed by questions and queries from fans.
As the band have been on tour they’ve been unable to answer most of these so Peaceville have arranged to catch up with them when they are in London next week and put some of these questions to them. The band’s answers will be filmed and posted on the Peaceville YouTube channel next week. If you have a question you’d like to ask the band please email linn@snappermusic.co.uk and please include your name and where you are from. We’ll ask the band as many questions as we can next week.
Deadline for questions is 11am (UK time) on Tuesday 3rd November. Please note we expect to receive a large number of questions so cannot guarantee that all questions will be answered.
As you can see, our new Night is the New Day web site is online. We’ll be working out kinks for the next couple of days, so please bare with us. We’re planning on adding a ton more photos and various other goodies, as well as more frequent updates.
The European release date of Night is the New Day is only a week away — pre-order your Swedish edition CD or gatefold double vinyl directly from Peaceville.
Anders and Jonas took a moment in a London record store to talk about some of their musical influences throughout their career, and how they relate to Night is the New Day.
The mini-site for ‘Night is the New Day’ can now be accessed at this location. It includes audio samples, downloads, album information, pre-order links, interviews, art gallery plus all the studio diaries from the recording session.
Subscribers to the Peaceville Records mailing list are being given the first opportunity to download a free song entitled Forsakertaken from ‘Night Is The New Day’.
Also check out what Opeth frontman Mikael Akerfeldt had to say about the forthcoming Katatonia album on his official myspace blog.
It’s hard to believe, but it’s a fact – the rathole sessions are over, we’re done! David “King rat of the rathole” Castillo, Jonas and me have spent the longest studio sessions this far with nearly every hour of the day (or night) since we finished up with the vocals. Picture this: Mix down, reference listening, un-do, re-do, mix down, reference listening, repeat x 100. There’s always something you find to correct, whether it’s one drum hit thats not loud enough, or a backing harmony that doesnt cut through, or a frequenzy in the bass that makes the rathole sound like a steamboat, yeah basically hundreds of things that fight for their position and balance in the sound picture. One song even reached a staggering 136 (!) active tracks. That’s quite a contrast to the days were we were given 16 tracks for the whole package. Everything has to be optimized and you end up going back and forth improving and updating versions of the mix to replace the previous efforts and you can do this for eternity, unless you have a deadline. We just managed to complete the mix at the very last day and let me tell you, the album sounds fan-fukkin-tastic! It’s heavy, punchy and crunchy. It sounds very 3D in headphones. We put this album back to back with a couple of other band’s albums and it is either right up there sideways with them, or it simply sits with it’s azz on their faces. Crushed!
The last two days was spent on the final stage – mastering with Jens Bogren twiddling on his knobs down Fascination Street in Örebro, while we were stand-by in the rathole for urgent repairs an reference listening. Uploading and downloading the files of the whole production via ftp enabled us to communicate and do the same things we normally would, but now in two different towns. Can’t say no to ez living for the hard working modern man. After about 4 attempts, we got there. The album has now been approved by everyone. It got the green light and now in peaceville’s hands. Our work is done, yet it has only just begun. On saturday the band will hook up and we’ll have a private pre-listening session with some of our friends and colleagues and celebrate we’re done! Then on monday we’ll have an official pre-listening session all day as Peaceville will fly in journo’s from the daily papers, music magazines and radio stations from around Europe. A few photo sessions will round up that night. Then next week it’s time for the mini-site to go online. Are you ready? /Anders
Vocals… what about them? Well, yeah… they have to be there. Even though I had done much of the vocal parts/ideas already on the demos, I couldn’t imagine the extent of what was about to come. Starting out, I was feeling better than I thought, since I had problems with my throat earlier during the recording. It wasn’t a cold as I first expected, I have no idea what it was/is, but it has affected me in some ways.
I keep singing, it’s what I do, apparently. I think it sounds good, but it feels weird at times (age?). More tracks nailed and listening back, I realize that I’ve never sung this MUCH on an album before. Not that I’m singing ALL THE TIME (don’t worry), but the vocals are much more demanding. I hope it is because the singing is better, and not because my throat is worse. Anyway, I’m kinda confident.
After a few breaks in the recording to play some festival gigs (Portugal, Germany and the UK) I went back down the rathole to nail the last few songs. My voice was already tired from the studio session, and even more tired from the gigs and I was really worried, but behind the microphone everything fell into place for that one last session. I’ve done my part… soon it is your part, folks! Because the mixdown is already well under way, we’ve currently nailed 5 songs out of 12 and we’re continuing to nail 1 song per day, so on September 1st, the album is going to be completed. No more rathole, we’re free to go. It’s hard to believe it’s true. It looks like the mini-site is gonna open on September 7th or 11th with the final tracklist, audio snippets and more./Jonas
