Katatonia
Katatonia is a Swedish heavy metal band formed in Stockholm in 1991 by Jonas Renkse and Anders Nyström. The band started as a studio-only project for the duo, as an outlet for their love of death metal. Increasing popularity led them to add more band members for live performances, though outside of the band's founders, the lineup was a constantly changing, revolving door of musicians throughout the 1990s, notably including Mikael Åkerfeldt of Opeth for a period. After two death/doom albums, Dance of December Souls (1993) and Brave Murder Day (1996), problems with Renkse's vocal cords coupled with new musical influences caused the band to stray away from the screamed vocals of death metal to a more traditional melodic form of progressive rock.
How Critics See Katatonia
Chorus pulls the clearest critic-consensus signals out of this discography: the highest-rated record, the tightest agreement, the sharpest split, and the best place to start.
Nightmares as Extensions of the Waking State
2025
Highest ChoruScore in this discography at 70/100 across 7 reviews.
Katatonia's Nightmares as Extensions of the Waking State refines the band's reflective melancholy into a sometimes-fragmented but frequently compelling sequence of nocturnal vignet...
Nightmares as Extensions of the Waking State
2025
Best balance of score, review depth, and critic agreement for a first listen.
Katatonia's Nightmares as Extensions of the Waking State refines the band's reflective melancholy into a sometimes-fragmented but frequently compelling sequence of nocturnal vignet...
