Sweden’s leader in progressive metal, Katatonia, has teamed up with heavy metal’s leading lady, Full Metal Jackie, to give fans a chance to win a Mayones Guitar played and autographed by Katatonia from their US tour. The grand prize winner will win the guitar, the tour edition of Night Is The New Day, a Mayones Guitar t-shirt, plus a choice of a t-shirt from Katatonia's merch store powered by Omerch. A runner up will get the new CD and their choice of t-shirt as well. Head over to this location for your chance to win.
Katatonia vocalist,
Jonas Renkse, will be a guest on Full Metal Jackie's syndicated metal radio show this weekend (Aug 27-Aug 29). To find a radio station near you airing the show go to FullMetalJackieRadio.com.
Katatonia, will kick off their North American tour – the "Night Over North America" tour – on September 8th in Baltimore. To coincide with the 26-date US and Canadian tour, Peaceville Records has released a special edition of the acclaimed 2009 studio album, Night Is The New Day, in a hardback mediabook, with 20 page booklet, and bonus track, "Ashen". The special edition Night Is The New Day hit stores on August 24th.
Night is the New Day is Katatonia’s eighth studio album. It was recorded throughout July 2009 and was co-produced, engineered and mixed by David Castillo. A continuation of the heaviness, depth and atmosphere of their previous album, Night Is the New Day is also a more multi-dimensional effort - waltzing between prog moments, doom, folk and the classic melodic anthems that are the staple of Katatonia’s uncompromising sound.
The track list for the Night Is The New Day special edition is as follows:
01. Forsaker
02. The Longest Year
03. Idle Blood
04. Onward Into Battle
05. Liberation
06. The Promise Of Deceit
07. Nephilim
08. New Night
09. Inheritance
10. Day and Then The Shade
11. Ashen* (Exclusive Bonus Track)
12. Departer
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I'm a big fan of Katatonia, and i'm really looking forward to see them live here in Portugal, next November.
However, there's no denying that Opeth is Sweden’s leader in progressive metal. Wether you call it progressive death or not, they're still progressive metal, and the leaders at that.
Also, another contest open to USA residents only. Yay...