''Sounds of Decay'' is the third EP by Swedish heavy metal band

Katatonia Katatonia is a Swedish Heavy metal music, heavy metal band formed in Stockholm in 1991 by Jonas Renkse and Anders Nyström. The band started as a studio-only project for the duo, as an outlet for their love of death metal. Increasing popularity ...

, released in 1997. The front cover is a screenshot of a decrepit god, taken from the movie '' Begotten''. There is an unreleased version of this EP on which Fred Norrman recorded. The band had to record the EP twice, as during the first recording, the result was terrible due to the band being very hungover. And for unknown reasons, they had not called Fred back to do the recording again. According to Mikael Åkerfeldt, he prefers the unreleased version, as it is "a lot more brutal." This release is the last Katatonia material to feature any death metal-elements, it’s also Åkerfeldt’s final collaboration with the group. A fourth song named "Untrue" was also recorded in the studio session, but it did not end up on the original release. It was later released on the '' Brave Yester Days'' compilation album in 2004; it is the only material released from the first session. The EP was also featured on the 2006 Peaceville reissue of the '' Brave Murder Day'' album.

Track listing

Credits

Katatonia

Mikael Åkerfeldt Lars Mikael Åkerfeldt (; born 17 April 1974)Mikael Åkerfeldt
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Jonas Renkse Jonas Petter Renkse (born 19 May 1975) is a Swedish musician in the bands Katatonia (1991–) as lead vocalist, founder, songwriter (1991–1994, 1997–) and formerly as drummer (1991–1994, 1996–1998); formerly in Bloodbath Bloo ...

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Production

* Tomas Skogsberg – mixing

References

Katatonia EPs 1997 EPs Avantgarde Music EPs {{1990s-death-metal-album-stub