There have been a number of great bands over the years that mixed the heaviness of death metal and slower paces of doom metal....

Describing an album as “heavy” seems to be a pretty trite, uninspired statement; then again, it also depends on what your definition of heavy...

Katatonia's music is dark. Placing a lot of emphasis in the ambience created by their music, these Swedes have always put darkness as their main objective. With lyrics dealing with...

Depressive rock and doom metal have seen a lot of crossover in the last decade or two; this has been, in part, thanks to...

I listen to a lot of bad music for this website, but it takes quite a lot of effort for a band to sour...

"The best band you've never heard of". This seems like an appropriate descriptor for Steven Wilson and even for his Porcupine Tree project. Despite...

Few bands can pride themselves on starting a genre, let alone a whole social movement. Paradise Lost is one of the few bands that...

Katatonia are, unquestionably, one of the most important bands in the scene, with an illustrious career in which they've progressed from Doom/Death Metal through...

"I guess people adapted to what we were doing and got an idea of how we were thinking at the time. So I think a lot of people came back to Katatonia."