Katatonia / Riverside / Pain of Salvation

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Three favorites from Europe.
Any fans here? Did a search but no threads came up.

Wore all of these out.
Katatonia - The Great Cold Distance & Last Fair Deal Gone Down
Riverside - Second Life Syndrome & Rapid Eye Movement
Pain of Salvation - One Hour by a Concrete Lake & Remedy Lane

OPETH too! (the post cookie monster stuff)
 
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One of my favorite Doom bands is called Rapture, out of Finland. They broke up several years back but they were always compared to Katatonia. Their music sounded huge and has this awesome, unstoppable momentum.

Their first album is called Futile, and it’s the best place to start. I was really impressed with the guitar tone and eventually find out they recorded with ENGL Savage 120’s. Great tone on that album.

Their next album is called Songs for the Withering and you can tell the band is slightly more mature and sophisticated in their writing. Some of the best heavy music I’ve ever heard is on that record.

I’d recommend this band to any fan of metal or heavy music in general.
 
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@TheGreatGreen

Checked out some clips from Songs for the Withering and I can hear a little similarity
but really not a lot. Will spend more time with the album. Have you heard Katatonia?

 
@Donnie B. I have heard Katatonia, yeah. I like them. I've listened to The Great Cold Distance a few times and it's good. Funny enough a buddy asked me if I'd heard their newer stuff recently. I checked out City Burials and while it's quite different from their TGCD record, it's still very good. It's not as driving or nearly as straightforward as TGCD is. It's mellower and more atmospheric, there's a really cool depth that makes it great in its own way. Not to say one is better than the other. They're both great records.

Great band.
 
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Katatonia is awesome! Not into their latest release but Great Cold Distance and Night is the New Day are absolutely stellar.
 
I've been fortunate enough to see all 3 live. Huge PoS (pun intended) fan here before i started listening to other bands such as Karnivool and Leprous.
i'm based in central Europe and have seen all 3 bands listed perform live.
To this day i consider pain of salvation as my entry door to prog rock/metal. Most of my friends have always been heavily into dream theater and such but that has never been my case.

If there's one song i would recommend all to watch on YT it would be Pain of Salvation - Handful of Nothing (live). I've never really understood how Gildenlow is capable of pulling of both the rhythm guitar doing 7-6-5-4-3-2 and an overarching main vocal lead in there. My brain just farts out even after years. He's also one of the best performing vocalists out there with an absolute control.

Had a chance to meet them in person while in Budapest and they were some of the nicest guys ever. I think they might actually be the first band to ever promote mayones guitars before they got this big. Everyone was like what the hell? Polish guitars? no way...




Also if you have 10 min of your time the vocals here are unmatched... the whole song writing, conceptual art, story behind.. once you start venturing into all the whys and whos and whats it becomes a bit of an obsession. :)

 
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I've never really understood how Gildenlow is capable of pulling of both the rhythm guitar doing 7-6-5-4-3-2 and an overarching main vocal lead in there.
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The dude is simply a freak.
When Transatlantic tour they hire him as their 'do everything' guy on stage.
Keyboards, guitars, percussion, and of course, backing vocals.

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I think they might actually be the first band to ever promote mayones guitars before they got this big. Everyone was like what the hell? Polish guitars?
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I bought a Setius after seeing PoS and then Riverside using them! Great guitars.
 
In my opinion Remedy Lane is right up there with DSOTM and Operation Mindcryme
as best progressive rock concept albums ever.

 
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cookie vocals?? WTF
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I got a really open mind with music and will give things lots of chances
before giving up and just considering it shit.

Grateful Dead
K-Pop
Growling vocals ALL THE TIME.

All Shit
 
Donnie B. said:
I got a really open mind with music and will give things lots of chances
before giving up and just considering it shit.

Grateful Dead
K-Pop
Growling vocals ALL THE TIME.

All Shit
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it isn't so much the lack of growl vocals on the last few albums, it is the terrible 70's prog sound...have always hate 70's prog. With Opeth for me they started to head south when they added the keyboard player ( I love keyboards but it changed the dynamics of the band too much for my liking) and the Steven Wilson influence started to take over
 
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it isn't so much the lack of growl vocals on the last few albums, it is the terrible 70's prog sound...have always hate 70's prog. With Opeth for me they started to head south when they added the keyboard player ( I love keyboards but it changed the dynamics of the band too much for my liking) and the Steven Wilson influence started to take over
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My major issue with the later stuff is that I'd rather just listen to Porcupine Tree lol.
 
Yeah the last few works by Opeth sound like a theme from Scooby-Doo. I guess I bailed out with Watershed that was the last studio album I was listening to. But I have the same experience with Dream Theater and everything that came after Systematic Chaos (perhaps not even that one...)
 
Katatonia is hit or miss for me. Sometimes I can listen to their stuff without much conscious thought, which is good imo, then sometimes I hear Jonas's voice and think it doesn't fit with the music, sometimes its the timing/phrasing of the vocals over the timing/phrasing of the music, some times I think its the production and lack of variety in the vocal tones.

I really love Jonas's vocal contributions to stuff by the Ocean though. Their last two records have been absolutely tremendous for me, particularly the songs he contributes to.
 
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Opeth post cookie vocals?? WTF ... they lost me after Blackwater Park :ROFLMAO:
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K-Roll said:
Yeah the last few works by Opeth sound like a theme from Scooby-Doo. I guess I bailed out with Watershed that was the last studio album I was listening to. But I have the same experience with Dream Theater and everything that came after Systematic Chaos (perhaps not even that one...)
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Yeah I loved everything up til Blackwater Park. I DID like Deliverance and Damnation. SUPER hit or miss for me on everything after that.

With that said, MA's vocals are still some of my favorite.
 
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