by "stale_organic_cage" South England. Reviewed on November 18th, 2003
This album is the first to feature Renkes' clean vocals, and is therefore the beginning of what most people would associate with Katatonia today. Nice driving smooth riffs, with a dark, depressive atmosphere matched only by Paradise Lost, "Discouraged Ones" is, for me as with many others the most beautiful album in their catalogue. It has all the elements of later albums, with the feeling that, given this was composed by younger musicians, they weren't really sure where this would lead them. Thats the beauty of this album, the band hadn't done anything like this before. Songs like "Stalemate", "Last Resort" and "Instrumental" are incredible and some of the best Katatonia songs ever written. Fusing dark emotion with some of the smoothest metal riffs ever, "Discouraged Ones" is a masterpiece, a gem for all time.
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