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      Originally released : 05-04-2004
      Release date        : 10-30-2006
      Album name          : Brave Yester Days
      Artist              : Katatonia

      Ripped by           : itachi
      Genre               : Metal
      Label               : Avantgarde

      Encoding Software   : Lame EOS
      Quality             : -V 2

      Tracks              : 23
      Size of Files       : 199,10 MB

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                   CD1

        01  00:44  Midwinter Gates (Prologue)
        02  06:54  Without God
        03  03:40  Palace Of Frost
        04  03:59  The Northern Silence
        05  01:49  Crimson Tears (Epilogue)
        06  08:13  Gateways Of Bereavement
        07  13:55  Velvet Thorns (Of Drynwhyl)
        08  09:09  Black Erotica
        09  06:53  Love Of The Swan
        10  08:41  Funeral Wedding
        11  05:23  Shades Of Emerald Fields
        12  02:47  For Funerals To Come
        13  01:13  Epistel

                   CD2

        01  04:54  Murder
        02  06:30  Rainroom
        03  06:08  Nowhere
        04  06:10  At Last
        05  06:13  Inside The Fall
        06  02:35  Untrue
        07  04:30  Nerve
        08  05:02  Saw You Drown
        09  04:37  Quiet World
        10  10:24  Scarlet Heavens


                                Total time: 130:2


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     As the only major non-English contributors to the
     development of doom/death metal in the early '90s,
     Sweden's Katatonia were clearly a dark horse what must
     surely have been one of the slowest races ever staged
     in the metal realm. And yet, the dark horse has
     prevailed, or at least kept pace with the odds-on
     favorites, in a career that now spans almost two
     decades. Brave Yester Days takes a stab at chronicling
     the first half of that career through the unique
     perspective of Katatonia's numerous EP releases, many
     of which contained material of equal quality to their
     well-loved albums, and are now assembled into this
     amazingly handy two-disc collection. Starting at the
     beginning, with the band's first, remarkably
     vital-sounding debut EP, 1992's Jhva Elohim Meth...The
     Revival, disc one then samples two epics from 1993's
     Dance of December Souls album, and two, truly obscure
     gems from the War Compilation, Vol. 1 (the haunting
     "Black Erotica" and "Love of the Swan") before
     culminating in inspired fashion with all four excellent
     cuts from 1995's For Funerals to Come... EP. Disc two
     opens with a tandem of highlights from 1996's widely
     acclaimed, and surprisingly energetic, sophomore album,
     Brave Murder Day, followed by the next year's similarly
     styled Sounds of Decay EP -- both featuring the vocals
     of future Opeth legend Mikael Åkerfeldt, and serving
     notice that Katatonia's doom tendencies were fast
     giving way to straight-up death metal. Brave Yester
     Days' fascinating display of sonic evolution is then
     brought to a close with 1998's Saw You Drown EP,
     whereupon Katatonia's gradual shift away from their
     doom/death origins was, at last, brought to a clear
     resolution by the sound of lighter guitars, incremental
     keyboards, and the replacement of deathly growls with
     clean-sung, melodic vocals. All told, this collection
     serves not only as an astoundingly well-conceived
     summary of Katatonia's purely metallic career, but also
     a frankly unbeatable bang-for-buck proposition when it
     comes to housing so many scattered releases under one
     roof.

     Ed Rivadavia (AMG)

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