We’re very sorry to announce that Katatonia has unfortunately been forced to cancel tomorrow’s (saturday January 17) gig at the Tochka club, Moscow, Russia due to contractual problems and visa complications. We’re already looking at the possibilites of rescheduling this gig asap to rectify the situation. All questions about the tickets, refunds and the rescheduled date etc should be directed to the promoter JC-Sound, which you can reach here. Once again, we’re sorry for any disconvinience and dissapointment this may have caused  you. Thanks for you understanding

We are pleased to announce our first time trip (as musicians and not charter passengers…) to the tourist attraction island of Cyprus. Come kick in the new year with us on January 3rd. Tickets are on sale now. 

We are also excited to make our return to the massive continent in the east. Our last trip, with gigs in S:t Petersburg and Moscow, marked a live-highlight for the band in 2005. With the Katatonia season in full bloom, we can’t think of anything better than coming back to Moscow for a one off show on January 17th. Tickets are on sale now.

We can hear many question….

“Why is there no new Katatonia album out by now???”

And you might rightfully think so, our 8th album (and the last in the contract with Peaceville) should have been done and put out “ages ago” if things would’ve gone according to plan… It’s crazy how fast time goes by these days and that doesn’t help us much when inspiration runs dry. We’ve been meaning to enter the studio on many occassions already since two years back and I think we ended up cancelling booked sessions twice. Although it worked successfully every time in the past, it just got us stressed out and pushed us into a phase of writer’s block. From this we learned we better not book anything in advance as it stands, but focus on completing 100% of the material, be perfectly happy with what we got and first then hit the studio.

It seems we might pull things together for maximum devotion this time as all current and previous distractions are now gone. The Summer festivals are over and the level of live gigs for the next months are put to a minimum and Bloodbath - our Death Metal sideproject’s new album is done too (to be released on Otober 6th, check it out or all our hard work was for nothing hah!).

So what about the music? Bits and pieces have been collected ever since The Great Cold Distance came out. It’s just that we’ve been trying too hard, been thinking too much about the sound and direction. How can we top this and how can we change that. We’ve been stumbling around offroad looking for the answers and it ended up being a long walk. We don’t find it meaningful to trace your own footsteps back from where you came, but we rather find the first nearest exit to the same road up ahead where we’re at to get back on the map again.

I wont give away any hints just yet about how it will sound, but we hope to give you more light on the progress of this untitled embryo as we get closer. What’s certain is that we’ve found a good equation to work with now and that my friends is that it’s all about the 8th studio album and the autumn. Here comes the Katatonia season…

Katatonia will appear on the following festivals this summer:

Jun 20 - Hellfest, Clisson, France
Jun 28 - Hunterfest, Szczytno, Poland
Jul 12 - Hegyalja Festival, Tokaj, Hungary
Jul 26 - Kuopiorock, Kuopio, Finland