Deadhouse by Katatonia
“Top Metal Albums: #4. Katatonia - Discouraged Ones (1998) -- Those who know and love Katatonia have heard them evolve through several stylistic phases over their splendid career, following an arc not dissimilar to ex-doom legends Anathema and Paradise Lost. I am a huge Katatonia fan, and it was only my 1-album-per-artist rule that kept Viva Emptiness, Last Fair Deal Gone Down and The Great Cold Distance off this list. But Discouraged Ones is something special. It was a one-album phase, a unique style perfected in a single try. They mellowed their sound, without sapping an ounce of emotion from it, infusing their brand of doom with elements of goth like circa-Pornography Cure -- that the main riff in "Stalemate" bears a striking resemblance to the Cure's "One Hundred Years" is no mistake -- and elements of slowcore and shoegaze nearly a decade before bands like Alcest and Deafheaven tried their able hands at it. The morbid bliss flows seamlessly without a single weak moment.”
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Top Metal Albums: #4. Katatonia - Discouraged Ones (1998) -- Those who know and love Katatonia have heard them evolve through several stylistic phases over their splendid career, following an arc not dissimilar to ex-doom legends Anathema and Paradise Lost. I am a huge Katatonia fan, and it was only my 1-album-per-artist rule that kept Viva Emptiness, Last Fair Deal Gone Down and The Great Cold Distance off this list. But Discouraged Ones is something special. It was a one-album phase, a unique style perfected in a single try. They mellowed their sound, without sapping an ounce of emotion from it, infusing their brand of doom with elements of goth like circa-Pornography Cure -- that the main riff in "Stalemate" bears a striking resemblance to the Cure's "One Hundred Years" is no mistake -- and elements of slowcore and shoegaze nearly a decade before bands like Alcest and Deafheaven tried their able hands at it. The morbid bliss flows seamlessly without a single weak moment.
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