Brave Murder Day
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1996 |
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| Label (s) | Avant-garde music | |||
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CD, LP |
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Title (number) |
6th |
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running time |
41 min 14 s |
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Dan Swanö , Katatonia |
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Brave Murder Day is Katatonia's second album . It was released by Avant-Garde Music in 1996 . The vocals on the album were taken over by Mikael Åkerfeldt from Opeth . The re-release of the Century Black album included the four tracks from the EP For Funerals to Come , while the later re-release from Peaceville Records included all 3 tracks from the EP Sounds of Decay . In 2004, Northern Silence Productions released the album on vinyl.
info
- The title Endtime is one of the few songs by Katatonia with samples . The sample is from the film The Shining by Stanley Kubrick . The following can be heard in the second half of the song:
- Stuart Ullman : Because, for some people solitude and isolation can, of itself, become a problem.
- Jack Torrance : Not for me.
- The song 12 is a new recording of the song Black Erotica , which was released in 1995 on the compilation W.AR Compilation - Volume One . The original version is also on the compilation Brave Yester Days .
- In 2006 Peaceville Records released a remastered version of the album with the songs from the EP Sounds of Decay as bonus material.
- The limited edition of Dark Fortress ' album Stab Wounds contains a cover version of Endtime .
Track list
- Brave - 10:16
- Murder - 4:54
- Day - 4:28
- Rainroom - 6:31
- 12 - 8:18
- Endtime - 6:46
Music by Katatonia, texts by Jonas Renkse.
Reviews
Frank Stöver wrote in Voices from the Darkside that Brave Murder Day should not be regarded as a metal album, as the music is more similar to the Gothic Rock of bands like Fields of the Nephilim ; it was "a good Gothic release, but a weak Katatonia comeback".
Individual evidence
- ↑ Frank Stöver: KATATONIA . Brave Murder Day . In: Voices from the Darkside , No. 10, 1997, p. 26.