Dead End Kings by Katatonia
Dead End Kings is Katatonia's ninth full-length album. It was released on 27 August 2012 in Europe and 28 August in the U.S. through Peaceville Records. Like all Katatonia releases, the album was written primarily by founding members Jonas Renkse and Anders Nyström. The band went through a number of lineup changes, making the album the first to feature bassist Niklas Sandin, the only album to feature second guitarist Per Eriksson, and the last to feature drummer Daniel Liljekvist.
<i>Dead End Kings</i> finds the Swedish metal heroes exploring shadowy atmospheres with gloomy alt-rock. Throughout, they manage to conjure the darkness of their doom and death metal roots through less harsh means. Over glittering, hypnotic guitar parts and sludgy riffs, Jonas Renkse’s powerful voice pierces the graveyard ambience like a knife.
