| Brave Yester Days | |
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| Greatest hits album by | |
| Released | 28 April 2004 |
| Recorded | July 1992 – August 1997 |
| Genre | Progressive metal Death/doom Alternative metal |
| Length | 130:18 |
| Label | Avantgarde |
| Producer | Katatonia |
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [1] |
Brave Yester Days is the first compilation album by Swedish heavy metal band Katatonia. It contains the material from Katatonia's older era, mainly consisting of death/doom material, and a few alternative rock songs.
"Black Erotica" is an earlier version of "12" from Brave Murder Day and "Untrue" is a previously unreleased song from the Sounds of Decay sessions.
Reception
Eduardo Rivadavia from AllMusic said that the compilation displays "Katatonia's gradual shift away from their doom/death origins" to a sound featuring "lighter guitars, incremental keyboards, and the replacement of deathly growls with clean-sung, melodic vocals" and called the album "an astoundingly well-conceived summary of Katatonia's purely metallic career" and "a frankly unbeatable bang-for-buck proposition when it comes to housing so many scattered releases under one roof."[1]
Track listing
| No. | Title | Album | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Midwinter Gates (Prologue)" | Jhva Elohim Meth | |
| 2. | "Without God" | Jhva Elohim Meth | |
| 3. | "Palace of Frost" | Jhva Elohim Meth | |
| 4. | "The Northern Silence" | Jhva Elohim Meth | |
| 5. | "Crimson Tears (Epilogue)" | Jhva Elohim Meth | |
| 6. | "Gateways of Bereavement" | Dance of December Souls | |
| 7. | "Velvet Thorns (of Drynwhyl)" | Dance of December Souls | |
| 8. | "Black Erotica" | W.A.R. Compilation Vol. 1 | |
| 9. | "Love of the Swan" | W.A.R. Compilation Vol. 1 | |
| 10. | "Funeral Wedding" | For Funerals to Come... | |
| 11. | "Shades of Emerald Fields" | For Funerals to Come... | |
| 12. | "For Funerals to Come" | For Funerals to Come... | |
| 13. | "Epistel" | For Funerals to Come... |
| No. | Title | Album | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Murder" | Brave Murder Day | 4:54 |
| 2. | "Rainroom" | Brave Murder Day | 6:31 |
| 3. | "Nowhere" | Sounds of Decay | 6:08 |
| 4. | "At Last" | Sounds of Decay | 6:13 |
| 5. | "Inside the Fall" | Sounds of Decay | 6:20 |
| 6. | "Untrue" | Brave Yester Days | 2:34 |
| 7. | "Nerve" | Saw You Drown | 4:30 |
| 8. | "Saw You Drown" | Saw You Drown | 5:01 |
| 9. | "Quiet World" | Saw You Drown | 4:37 |
| 10. | "Scarlet Heavens" | Katatonia / Primordial | 10:24 |
Credits
- Katatonia
- Lord Seth (on Jhva Elohim Meth) / Lord J. Renkse (on Dance of December Souls) (Jonas Renkse) – drums, clean vocals, lyrics & screaming
- Blackheim (Anders Nyström) – lead guitar, music, guitar (on Jhva Elohim Meth & Dance of December Souls), bass (on Jhva Elohim Meth & Brave Murder Day) & backing vocals (on For Funerals to Come...)
- Day Disyhrah (Dan Swanö) – backing & clean vocals (on Jhva Elohim Meth & Dance of December Souls), electric keyboard & session musician
- Israphel Wing (Guillaume Le Huche) – bass (on Dance of December Souls, For Funerals to Come... & "Scarlet Heavens")
- Fredrik Norrman – music (on Brave Murder Day, Sounds of Decay & Saw You Drown) & rhythm guitar
- Mikael Åkerfeldt – death grunts & session musician
References
- 1 2 Rivadavia, Eduardo: Katatonia. Brave Yester Days, accessed on 11 June 2013.