New Katatonia album to be released as CD+DVD

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Neil Palfreyman

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Just noticed on the latest Kscope news letter that Katatonia are re-working and re-releasing their last album "Dead End Kings" as a "more ambient and progressive" work under the name "Dethroned and Uncrowned."

This is pretty unusual and intriguing, but I also noticed that they're advertising it as CD+DVD. Katatonia have done 5.1 mixes before so maybe, just maybe...

https://www.burningshed.com/store/kscope/

I should stress that I have seen absolutely nothing to suggest that it will be a surround release but both the band and label having a history of supporting the format it wouldn't be unreasonable to have raised expectations, would it? One to keep an eye on for sure.
 
Hi Neil and Matt, this has to be real. In a few issues of Prog Magazine it was mentioned already, see my posts www.quadraphonicquad.com/forums/sho...-Kings-DVD-A-V&p=158273&viewfull=1#post158273 and https://www.quadraphonicquad.com/fo...-Kings-DVD-A-V&p=173619&viewfull=1#post173619. Over a month ago I asked Paul Groundwell from Peaceville if this was still being planned to come out. He replied affirmative but said that is was delayed a bit because of the live set that was released recently.

Very much looking forward to this, as I like the Dead End Kings album very much. No lets hope it is the real thing (aka hi res dvd-a).
 
Katatonia also has a pledgemusic page set up, with background on the project. However, the description on the cd/dvd set does not look so well, 5.1 audio dvd in stead of dvd-audio.

http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/katatonia

Dear “Katatoniacs”,

First off, we wanna say that we’re completely happy with the outcome and success of ‘Dead End Kings’, but truth to be told, we saw a potential in going in a different and unexplored direction with the same material. Our instincts told us that this would be both intriguing and captivating to revoke the loud and aggressive sound picture dominant on the album and instead give way to the atmosphere and tranquillity lurking beneath. This eventually became an urge, so a few months later down the road we decided it was time to re-visit this project, but indulge in new creative experimentation.

So, it’s our wish to release the entire album in a stripped down, semi-acoustic way and turn things around completely and we are asking you, the fans, to help us do this by Pledging the various album formats and other exclusive items we have made available. By doing so you can check back regularly to find out about our campaign and the album’s progress.

The synopsis is simple and album title won’t lie; the drums will be dethroned and the distorted rhythm guitars will be uncrowned! Instead, we’ll place the emphasis on the many layers of ambience, with the melodies staying central and the vocal harmonies representing the heart of the album. Also by pledging you are helping the bands ability to be able to tour further afield. Although the songs are the same and the track listing doesn’t change, we hope the end result is something entirely different! Think of the album like a person’s face in the hands of a surgeon, whose appearance is gonna change, but it’s still the same person behind that face and we guess an important factor, in this case, would be that the surgeon itself is obviously Katatonia, not a stranger! If there’s one album in our repertoire that’s suited for a thing like this, it’s ‘Dead End Kings’.

We’ll be doing this in partnership with our record label’s imprint division Kscope Music who specialise in these kind of releases, but we would also like to involve you, our dear fans from the start to make this an album we can all cherish and be proud of forevermore. The aim is to have the album released by September 9th of this year.

In order to do this we have cleared out our rehearsal room and parent’s attics and found some long lost treasures that we’re sure will be of interest to some of you and will allow you to be part of making this album a reality. You can see the gems we found on the right hand side and we hope that there’s something to your liking between the selections of common goods, historic memorabilia and the more exclusive services.

Some items include postage and packaging, other items will require further postage and packaging costs to be added at a later date. Please check each item description carefully.

We’ll be working towards a minimum income to make this record possible and you’ll be able to keep track of our progress on the percentage bar above.

Thanks for checking in :)

Cheers!

Anders, Jonas, Daniel, Sodo & Nille
KATATONIA
 
Given that Dead End Kings and The Great Cold Distance are true DVD-As I'm hopeful.

Neil - are you able to confirm if you're involved in authoring this?
 
I've just pre-ordered Katatonia - Dethroned And Uncrowned from Burning Shed, for 9th September release. This is what is on the web site, just states 5.1 DVD.

Tracks

Disc One:

1.The Parting
2.The One You Are Looking For Is Not Here
3.Hypnone
4.The Racing Heart
5.Buildings
6.Leech
7.Ambitions
8.Undo You
9.Lethean
10.First Prayer
11.Dead Letters

Disc Two (DVD, 5.1 Mix):

1.The Parting
2.The One You Are Looking For Is Not Here
3.Hypnone
4.The Racing Heart
5.Buildings
6.Leech
7.Ambitions
8.Undo You
9.Lethean
10.First Prayer
11.Dead Letters
 
I e-mailed Burning Shed over the weekend about this and got the following reply from Lisa:

"We are assured (and I have double checked!) that this is a full DVD-AV release and it's being authored by Ray Shulman who has been responsible for Steven Wilson's brilliant latest 5.1 offerings ;~)"

Which makes me very happy. :)

Excellent to see Kscope/Burning Shed becoming the leading light for surround releases. Long may it continue! :)
 
I e-mailed Burning Shed over the weekend about this and got the following reply from Lisa:

"We are assured (and I have double checked!) that this is a full DVD-AV release and it's being authored by Ray Shulman who has been responsible for Steven Wilson's brilliant latest 5.1 offerings ;~)"

Which makes me very happy. :)

Excellent to see Kscope/Burning Shed becoming the leading light for surround releases. Long may it continue! :)

Is that the Ray Shulman who was in Gentle Giant?
 
I have no idea - that post was just a verbatim copy and paste of Lisa's reply. Maybe someone else on the board knows?

Yes, it is the same Ray Shulman!
AFAIK, his company's done a lot of authoring for EMI in the past, including Jethro Tull, Genesis, and (of course) Gentle Giant DVDs.
:)
 
I e-mailed Burning Shed over the weekend about this and got the following reply from Lisa:

"We are assured (and I have double checked!) that this is a full DVD-AV release and it's being authored by Ray Shulman who has been responsible for Steven Wilson's brilliant latest 5.1 offerings ;~)"

Which makes me very happy. :)

Excellent to see Kscope/Burning Shed becoming the leading light for surround releases. Long may it continue! :)

Thanks Neil, order placed with Burning Shed.:banana:
 
This one slipped through my pre-order lists.... wow - my credit card is gonna get hammered!
 
I will definitely get this. I wish SW could of done Cold Distance as it is a great album!
 
.. the same Ray Shulman!
AFAIK, his company's done a lot of authoring for EMI in the past, including Jethro Tull, Genesis, and (of course) Gentle Giant DVDs.
Yeah, but none of those were DVD-A, but at least we can expect DTS. Let's hope the channel ordering is correct :) (I assume for new productions this can hardly go wrong).
OTH Katatonia has put out 2 DVD-A's already, so they know what this is about. We'll see.
 
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