KATATONIA: New Video Interview
November 5, 2010Hank Pearl of TheDailyRock.com conducted an interview with guitarist Anders "Blakkheim" Nyström and vocalist Jonas Renkse of Sweden's KATATONIA before the band's September 17, 2010 performance at Reggie's Rock Club in Chicago, Illinois. You can now watch the chat in two parts below.
KATATONIA kicked off its North American tour — dubbed "Night Over North America" — on September 8 in Baltimore, Maryland. To coincide with the 26-date U.S. and Canadian trek, Peaceville Records released a special edition of the band's acclaimed 2009 studio album, "Night Is The New Day", in a hardback mediabook, featuring a 20-page booklet and bonus track, "Ashen".
The special edition of "Night Is The New Day" was made available on August 24.
Support on KATATONIA's North American tour came from Finland's SWALLOW THE SUN and Israel's ORPHANED LAND.
KATATONIA released a new EP, "The Longest Year", on March 15 via Peaceville Records.
In addition to the album cut "The Longest Year", the EP features the previously unreleased song "Sold Heart", "Day And Then The Shade" (remix),and an alternative version of "Idle Blood". The enhanced EP also features the videos for both "The Longest Year" and "Day And Then The Shade", directed by Lasse Hoile (PORCUPINE TREE, OPETH).
Fredrik "North" Norrman (guitar) and Mattias "Kryptan" Norrman (bass) left KATATONIA in December and were temporarily replaced by Per "Sodomizer" Eriksson (BLOODBATH) and Niklas "Nille" Sandin, respectively.
"Night Is The New Day" sold more than 2,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
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