Night is the New Day has been out in Europe for a week and comes out this Tuesday in North America.  Here are just a few of the reviews coming in:

’Night is the New Day is so strong I’m confident with a little elbow grease Katatonia might just be the darlings of 2009. If they aren’t I’m kicking ass and taking names.’ – 9 out of 10 / Decibel (US)

‘the only thing I can do is to recommend as hard as I can both this album and this band’ — 5 out of 5 / Kerrang! (Spain)

‘the Swedes have quite possibly penned their very own masterpiece… this record is a mind-bending odyssey of melodies, moods, colours and soundscapes; labyrinthian ambience, glorious heights, despairing lows and the type of awe-inspiring set of chapters which demand an instant replay. This is truly classic Katatonia, and of unprecedented quality.’ — 9.5 / Rocksound

‘an album staggering in both its ambition and its accessibility, showcasing beauty and despair in equal measure.’ — 4.5 / One Metal

‘the most versatile and consistent Katatonia album ever’ — 5 out of 5 / Soundi (Finland)

‘This is one of the best Katatonia-albums, if not THE best one.’ — 85 out of 100 / Aardshock (Netherlands)

Rock Hard, Zillo and Legacy magazines have also given it the album of the month awards.

Pick up the Swedish edition CD or gatefold double vinyl here, or U.S. fans can pick up a special edition signed CD here.

Revolver Magazine has an exclusive video interview with Jonas and Anders discussing their influences. Watch it at now.

This video is no longer exclusive to Revolver. Watch on Katatonia.com now.

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.

Anders and Jonas recently sat down for a lengthy interview discussing Night is the New Day and the history of Katatonia with Diskant.dk.

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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 Forsaker taken 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