Stereogum — Like Ulver or Katatonia, Icelandic quartet Sólstafir began their career by putting an unusually textured, melodic spin on a traditional metal subgenre, and pretty aggressively evolved to a point where the textures and melody had mostly eclipsed the ... more info

ContactMusic — Swedish heavy metal stars Katatonia are on the search for a new guitarist after parting ways with bandmate Per 'sodomizer' Eriksson.The rockers... more info

Metal Injection — Masters of everything somber, Katatonia released Dead End Kings in 2012 to solid reception. The album was much more orchestral than previous works and flowed extremely well from song to song, all while retaining a common tonality. But what if the met... more info

Metalsucks — C'mon, I know you're cooking up some good captions for this photo. The post Photo Caption Contest: Win Tickets to See Katatonia, Cult of Luna, TesseracT and Intronaut appeared first on MetalSucks. more info

Metal Injection — Katatonia have been teasing us a bit for their upcoming "remix" record Dethroned and Uncrowned. I use the term "remix" lightly here, because it's more a complete and total re-imagining of their 2012 record Dead End Kings. Are you ready to get me... more info

Metal Injection — Bad news, good news and potentially better news. The bad news: This is a really slow week for metal. The good news: The few that are dropping are of pretty high quality. The Potentially better news: I don't have anything to talk about this week ... more info

Metalsucks — Swedish "downpressive" (thanks, Anso) metal band re-jiggers 2012's Dead End Kings without all the metal-y stuff.The post Katatonia: Unplugged (Sorta) appeared first on MetalSucks. more info

Metal Injection — Katatonia are killing it in 2013! Between a  remix album titled Dethroned and Uncrowned and a tour with sick tour with Cult Of Luna, Intronaut and Tesseract, how can you not be pumped? Let's take a look at Dethroned and Uncrowned first! ... more info

Metal Injection — The next great prog-metal tour is happening this fall, and it features a diverse lineup of bands that all bring something unique to the table: Katatonia, Cult of Luna, Intronaut & TesseracT. What a lineup! The sleuths at ThePRP have uncovered a good ... more info

Metalsucks — A good match of similar yet different bands.The post Juicy Tour Rumor: Katatonia, Cult of Luna, Intronaut & TesseracT appeared first on MetalSucks. more info