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HISTORICAL FACTS: Katatonia - The Untold Story

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“I had a nightmare 15 years ago and I still remember being so frightened… I decided to finally let it guide me in a musical realm”: Jonas Renske steers the new-look Kakatonia towards a different darkness

Nightmares As Extensions Of The Waking State, their first album without Anders Nyström, embraces first takes, shelved ideas and outside influences – and hints at how they might use more electronic elements in the future

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We celebrate 30 years of Marillion's Afraid Of Sunlight on the cover of the new issue of Prog, on sale now

The brand new issue of Prog is on sale now, and also featuring Richard Sinclair, Gentle Giant, Peter Baumann, Katatonia

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“In the last 10 years no one has stepped up. Being the sole songwriter is sometimes very lonely”: Jonas Renske hopes Katatonia’s new era includes more input from his bandmates

13th album Nightmares As Extensions Of The Waking State could be an indication of where the band’s new line-up could go

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“Bands change; people move on. But when everything Jonas Renkse touches turns to gold, the present and future will always outweigh the past”: Katatonia’s new era begins with Nightmares As Extensions Of The Waking State

Sweden’s melancholic masters successfully navigate recent choppy waters to deliver their lucky 13th album

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"The build up to the album has reached its zenith and you are elevated to the top of the soaring tomb." Katatonia share new video for Wind Of No Change

Katatonia release their new album Nightmares As Extensions Of The Waking State tomorrow and share new video for Wind Of No Change

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Does a new-look Katatonia mean a bold new era? Of course not, but Nightmares As Extensions Of The Waking State is a gloomily gorgeous listen all the same

The first Katatonia album without Anders Nyström is just about what you'd expect, but it's still very, very good

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The legacy of Chris Squire remembered on the cover of the new issue of Prog, which is on sale now

The brand new issue of Prog is on sale now! Featuring Robert Fripp, Andy Summers, Stewart Copeland, Katatonia, Cosmograf, Savatage, Ghost Of The Machine, Black Country New Road and loads more...

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It's back! Prog's brand new Tracks Of The Week!! Cool new proggy sounds from Katatonia, Nosound, Hedvig Mollestad Trio and more...

Great new prog, from L.O.E., Gaupa, Hiroe, Gaupa and more in Prog's Tracks Of The Week...

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“It’s overwhelming – you wanna go on, you wanna live off the music, but maybe not everyone in the band can do that”: Katatonia ended a phase of doubt and gave shape to their Dead End King on 11th album City Burials

Jonas Renske didn’t stop writing when the dark Swedish troupe went on hiatus – which made it all the shorter

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The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now

From Ghost and Turnstile to Sodom, Left To Suffer, Shadow Of Intent and beyond, these are the best new metal songs this week

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New-look Katatonia announce 13th album Nightmares as Extensions of the Waking State – watch their video for Lilac

Katatonia reveal their new line-up and lead single Lilac from upcoming album Nightmares As Extensions Of The Waking State

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I asked a death metal supergroup to name the most brutal death metal albums of all time – this is what they came up with

Lik guitarist (and Katatonia bassist) Niklas Sandin picks the five most gut-churning, face-scrunching and ball-kicking albums to ever crawl out of death metal

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"Katatonia should have been laid to rest!" Anders Nyström hits back after Katatonia split

Katatonia announced they'd split with founding member and guitarist Anders Nyström earlier this week

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Katatonia and guitarist Anders Nyström go their separate ways

Katatonia have just announced a European tour for November and December

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Katatonia announce European tour dates for November and December

November and December tour dates heighten expectations that Swedish prog rockers Katatonia are to announce a new album soon

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“Pigeonhole this band at your own peril”: Why you should adore Katatonia – and where you should start with their enormous back-catalogue

From death/doom majesty to streamlined, melodic metal, this is your whistlestop tour through the best of Katatonia’s 12 albums

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"Don’t call it a happy album!" Katatonia and the story of Sky Void Of Stars

Katatonia's upbeat, up-tempo Sky Void Of Stars was born from the need for adrenaline at a time when the stage felt very far away....

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“There were cries of ‘Sell out!’ from the underground, but it wasn’t about selling out, it was about wanting to evolve”: How Katatonia emerged from the darkness to become metal’s most atmospheric band

Katatonia frontman Jonas Renske looks back on his band’s epic journey out of the death metal underground

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“Had we not made this record the way it sounded, I’m not certain there would have been another album”: How Opeth ditched the death growls and fully embraced prog on Heritage

In 2011, Opeth released Heritage – and cut the the last cord with their death metal past

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Our 15 favourite metal and heavy rock guitar moments of 2023: featuring Wolfgang Van Halen, Nita Strauss, Nuno Bettencourt, Paul Gilbert, Metallica, Periphery and more

Including the guitar solo of the year

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10 incredible non-metal albums made by metal bands

Bring Me The Horizon, Loathe and Ulver have all proven metal bands don’t need sick riffs to make great music

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“If they had the flares and beards and the record was from 1971 or 1972, that was what I wanted… records that looked odd and I could afford”: How Opeth’s Mikael Åkerfeldt discovered prog

From extreme metal to Camel and Genesis to collaboration with Steven Wilson, the Swedish musician's career is surely one of the most progressive

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The best metal albums of 2023 so far

Metallica, Babymetal and Sleep Token are among the best albums of 2023 so far - and there's more to come

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