21.12.2025 – Winter music #4: Katatonia

Track of the Day

Katatonia – Cold Ways
Honorable mentions: Katatonia – Scarlet Heavens, Katatonia – Saw You Drown, the entire "Discouraged Ones" album

This is the first album after Katatonia shifted their sound away from death doom, softening their sound into what I would call "doom rock" with a pinch of doom metal.
But this is still a great album. This era of Katatonia, the one after "early Katatonia" (maybe "middle Katatonia"?), gave us such bangers as Discouraged Ones and The Great Cold Distance. And while I would give a lot for more "early Katatonia", I'm happy these albums exist.
It's only once we talk about what came after The Great Cold Distance that I get a little sad.

But I'll talk more about that and early Katatonia in future TOTDs, so stay tuned.