Katatonia - July (REACTION!) 

No way. Somebody’s actually reacting to Katatonia? They have so many good albums and songs. Swedish metal is usually quality stuff.

Man, The Great Cold Distance is one of the greatest albums out there. So stoked to see a Katatonia reaction, too!

As others have suggested, "Soil's Song" and "My Twin" are both great songs from this album.

So glad you guys are covering Katatonia! Especially this album ❤️🤞🏼

My favorite band, I blast this all the month of July. Amazing song amazing band. Love you guys

Finally! This is the side of rock and metal I was hoping to see you dig into more! I don't mind all the mainstream / classic rock reactions but I hope this song gets you to make more room for exploring lesser known and more modern metal bands. Seeing you discover bands like Opeth and Gojira is what keeps me interested in the channel, and this video felt like I was back in those days. I hope this opens the gateway to you finally checking out bands like Paradise Lost, Anathema, Agalloch, Ulver, Alcest and Cult Of Luna. There aren't many people requesting them now but it will bring interest to your videos the same way the Opeth and Gojira reactions did.

Their album "Night Is the New Day" is still my favorite by them. "Forsaker" was such a great song to pop the album off with.

Awesome band. The album Viva Emptiness is fire all the way through!

The Great Cold Distance is such an all-time album for me, every song on it is top-tier.

Y'all finally reacted to Katatonia! I'm glad to see you guys enjoyed their music. "My Twin" by them would be right up your alley. Saw them in Vegas of all places last year @ Resorts World. I recommend anyone reading this comment to listen to (Discouraged ones). It's an amazing life changing album.🤘

Never heard them but I am now very much a fan

Saw them live twice! One of the best Swedish Metal bands hands down!

Follower and Leaders are probably my favorites by Katatonia. Glad to see you reacting to them

After all these years, still one of my favorite songs by Katatonia. Perfect drums, perfect everything.

Do more of this band. Super underrated

Katatonia is essentially 2 guys - Jonas Renkse (vocals) and Anders Nystrom (guitar)... who founded the band in the early 90's, initially as a black metal project (Opeth's Mikael Akerfeldt contributed vocals to early records) ... Jonas also played drums and bass, while Anders also played bass on some recordings, but they eventually hired more members for Katatonia ... Jonas and Anders also have a death metal band Bloodbath (Jonas on bass, Anders on guitar... current vocalist is Paradise Lost's Nick Holmes). After recording black metal albums, Katatonia changed up their sound in 1998 for their 3rd album 'Discouraged ones' w/ Jonas Renkse doing lead vocals and transforming their sound towards doom metal & gothic rock... After 2000, Jonas and Anders delivered some masterpieces w/ Katatonia... 'Last fair deal gone down' (2001) is just a dark descent into sonic depression w/ songs like - "Don't tell a soul"... 'Teargas'... 'We must bury you'... This album from 2006 was Katatonia's 7th album 'The great cold distance'... considered their best record. The single 'My twin' was a standout... along w/ 'July'... 'Leaders'... "Soil's song"... 🤘🤘💀💀 Over the years, Katatonia has changed members frequently... their latest album in 2023 is 'Sky void of stars'... joining Jonas and Anders are... Roger Ojersson (guitar), Niclas Sandin (bass) and Daniel Moilanen (drums). Other Katatonia songs to check out - 'I break'... 'Dead letters'... 'The longest year'... 'Opaline'... 🔥🔥

that whole album is absolute fire from start to finish

by far the most underrated band of the past 25-30 years

The special edition of this album have the bonus song "Unfurl" which in my opinion is one of their best tracks, it's VERY different compared to their usual style / genre, it's actually much more a Trip-Hop track than it is rock / metal, but the atmosphere in that song is still very Katatonia -like, they absolutely pull it off 100% - Given your recent discovery / love for Trip-Hop and now you've listened to Katatonia, I'd say "Unfurl" is a must listen!

Thank you for reacting to this song. My mother died when I was 10 in the month of July. This song means a lot to me. Katatonia is an amazing band. Great reaction guy’s!🤘🏼🤘🏼

Cannot believe you guys made it to Katatonia, so awesome! You have a long list of amazing tracks to dig into...."Teargas", "Evidence", "The Racing Heart".....it goes on. Keep 'em coming boyz!

Katatonia has so many great jams that I almost don't even know what I'd recommend next! Jonas could sing the dictionary and I'd listen.

Great! My Twin must be the next🔥

Lyrics . You come clean Waves collide now Defenseless numb arms And no voice of reason So how come you invited me too You knew I wanted you You glide above So this night belongs to you I know this isn't through Are you dead to love I see the bright lights It's the month of July It's violent here Why have you left me If only you could stay And keep me in It's violent here Why did you run from me Heat Night devour me Repeat Repetition

The riff on this song bangs so hard. The transitions are really clean and the vocals are smooth. This album as a whole is one of my absolute favs. Night is the new day, soil song, and deadhouse would be my song suggestions.

So excited!! Highly recommend their song Brave, one of my all time favourite songs and has Mikael Akerfeldt from Opeth providing the growls, possibly his best harsh vocals performance ever!

Why do I see 0 suggestion for Forsaker in these comments?? These guys would love it I'm sure.

This reaction put a smile on my face. This album is special to me, I had just moved to a snowy town in Canada for College back in 2006, alone, broke, depressed, and the only thing i had was this Katatonia CD which had just come out, in my car. That album is all I listened to for a full year, along with 'Damnation' by Opeth, and they both always got the rage out of me and made me feel better. They are both very dark albums and they were the right feel to go with a snowed in dark depressing winter in a sleepy college town. This album kept me company.

The great cold distance i feel is kind of where i feel they found their sound. I seriously love just about everything by them. Theyve just continued to evolve and write great music. Their latest album isnt long out and is brilliant 😎

thank you guys for i discovered this song with you.and i think this is masterpiece,cant stop listening to it

Already like, this is a band that is very consistent these days and do not disappoint. Lots of echos of early Bloodbath in this too...im gonna have to go back and re listen to the library, keep killin the game boys.

In my opinion Katatonia is the best band I've ever heard. They've put out absolutely fantastic album after album for years.

Yeeeessss! Finally! Katatonia. From the same album you have My Twin or Soil's Song. And from other albums, Criminals, Brave, Dead Letters, The Racing Heart, Ghost of the Sun... So many others. There's a great big rabbit hole.

Soooo glad y'all did Katatonia!! This band has been under the radar, while writing some of the most beautiful music, for many years. They are heavy, yet extremely melodic. Very nuanced. The drums are overlooked, but always amazing. The "Dead End Kings" have been put on the map, thanks to you guys!!

Oh shit! A Katatonia song?!?! Yes please, and more.

“Leaders” is my favorite from this album. I think they’d appreciate the drumming on that track. A lot of good songs from Katatonia out there.

I really got into katatonia the last year and The Great Cold Distance became my favorite album from them. For me, Jonas has the most beautiful voice in metal/rock. I hope you guys do more songs from them. My suggestion is Soil's Song from the same album.

Always dope hearing somebody else jam out to a song you dig too. Love Katatonia, especially these earlier albums.

I rarely comment on YT vids but want to say this has quickly become one of my fave music reaction channels. It's one thing to broaden horizons, but another to trawl the subgenre depths as deep as y'all do, and while always bringing honest, totally tuned-in reactions to the table. In that spirit, I recommend *Agalloch*. I'd dive in headfirst - "The Melancholy Spirit", "Falling Snow", "Hallways of Enchanted Ebony" or for a surprisingly thorough short song, "She Painted Fire Across the Skyline part 2".

first time hearing this ,that was soo good.

Ohhh the smile on my face before the first chorus, as you guys are steady headbangin’ away. LOVE it. “Forsaker” is another good one by them. And so is “Soil’s Song”. They’ve got SO many. Glad to see you guys are doing them.

That's the power of music/art. Your senses get overwhelmed and you react by laughing hysterically, crying, whatever. Been enjoying your genuine reactions for years, keep exploring.

So glad you finally came around to Katatonia! Great band! Great song! I'd be interested to see what song you do next from them. They can do no wrong but I'd love to see you review: Consternation, My Twin, City Glaciers, Hypnone, The Parting. Great stuff!

DUDES!!! Thank god you guys started checking out Katatonia. The Great Cold Distance is one of the best albums of the 2000's. Check out In the White or Rusted next! Trust me those will blow you away. Keep it up guys!

I saw this thumbnail float by and was psyched to see the reaction. Randomly caught these guys years ago live at the NE Hardcore and Metal Festival, and was totally blown away by the performance. Amazing band, thanks for giving them a chance!

This has been my favorite band for the last few years. It's awesome to see you guys react to them.

Thank god someone is showing katatonia love. my favorite band of all time.

These guys are consistently solid, anything off this or The Fall of Hearts.

Early 90s I got into Amorphis and that got me into Katatonia, there are a lot of awesome Swedish and Finnish bands out there. Also you guys should get back to Amorphis check out some more of their songs.

Yes. Love Katatonia

Also, that band clip you played at the beginning was cool. I never heard of them but I’ll have to check them out.

Niceeeeeee, Katatonia is one of my favorite bands, happily surprised to see you guys react to it

This is a band I’ve been meaning to get to. This was 🔥. Great reaction as usual.

Oh man! This was my favorite all throughout middle and high school. July was actually the first song of theirs that got me into them and I was instantly blown away! Seeing this is pure nostalgia to me! 👌☺️

Shout out to Orthrys in the intro! My favorite of the up-and-coming bands they've featured so far.

Never heard of them before but I’m glad I decided to watch this video. I’ll have to check out more of their music. Thanks LIV for always putting me onto new good music!

Wow! So glad you had this band on here. I used to listen to them back in the 90's, I think. Had forgotten about them until you guys reacted to them. You guys kick a**!

You guys made my day !!! Thank you so much for this reaction video from one of my favorite bands in the world from one of my favorites albums! "Rusted" is another fiery bad ass track on the album. The overall atmosphere, the ever surprising rhythm section, the ethereal parts and the violent ones ! I'm sure you'll enjoy it :)

EXCELLENT first Katatonia song to react to! I was screaming in the comments for yall to react to this one way before that prog guy 😂

Katatonia has been my favorite band since first hearing them nearly 20 years ago, but are sadly seem underappreciated. So happy to finally see them here after hoping/asking for a while to cover them. They're a band that's put their heart into every record and stayed true to making the music they want to make. This reaction was a joy to see, thank you!

Holy shit, you guys did Katatonia! I´m totally blown away that you loved one of my all time favourite bands

So glad you guys got to Katatonia!! You're in for a treat, just about everything they release is an absolute banger! Here's some essentials: I Am Nothing. Chrome, Tonight's Music, Ghost Of The Sun, Sleeper, Burn The Remembrance, Evidence, Leaders, Day And Then The Shade, The Parting, The Racing Heart, Dead Letters, Old Heart Falls... That's probably enough to get you started

You guys started with the right song for Katatonia, they have a lot of great songs to explore.

Thanks for the discovery of a new great band! It's FIRE!

Katatonia has some FIRE tracks, all up to their latest work

I love this song and album. I did not see you guys ever covering it.

Seen them live many moons ago in the UK, they were great. Your reviews are always entertaining. 🤘

Journey Through Pressure is a really dope song on the same album. 🤘🏼

What a pleasant surprise this reaction was! Katatonia has some really good stuff.

I love you got hooked with that guys. Katatonia is just sooo amazing, they are may not be very popular but they've made a shit ton of great albums. Hope to enjoy more reactions of Katatonia from you in the future!

Heck yes! Love this song!

1st time hearing this band and its fire.

Great. You finally got to Katatonia. One of the first bands I found after digging deeper than Tool, Opeth,

Leaders is the song I'd recommend off of this album. It's got a strong groove, while being proggy as hell. I just saw these guys a few days ago on 70,000 Tons of Metal. They, of course, played this song.

You guys are awesome!!! Love the show!

"The Night Subscriber" from Katatonia is an awesome mix of what you said you might like in this type of music!

Long time Metal head here. Thank you for reacting to my favorite band and specially a song from my favorite album from them.

July!!! Such an amazing song by an amazing band🖤🤌🏼

Finally katatonia! Check out lethean and the racing heart

Hyped that you guys like these guys! Such a great and underrated band, his vocals can be pretty diverse too but are always smooth. Atrium or austerity next!! From newest album.

I recommended Katatonia way back at the beginning of your channel and I knew back then that it would definitely hit in the gut. Glad to have been proven right and glad to see someone else get the hook in them.

Such a great choice as an intro to Katatonia. I’ve been listening to this band for over 20 years and they just continue to amaze with every release.

Glad you guys finally got to Katatonia, one of my favorite bands of all time. You guys are right in calling it alternative though, there’s definitely a heavy presence of that.

This is totally in my wheelhouse. Very few reactions on youtbe for Katatonia. You guys kick my ass. Peace!!!

Now here's finally a really interesting choice! To be honest, I stopped watching/listening to you guys for a while because it felt like you weren't exploring so much anymore, at least in the world of Rock. And let me tell you, if you enjoyed this, then you should have listened to my suggestions a loooooooong time ago. I could point you in the direction of music that is truly great, but sadly somewhat overlooked. Like Katatonia! What a great band. If you liked this, then they have a bunch of other awesome songs. You can't go wrong with any of the following songs. -My Twin (this feels like their "most well known single" type of song) -Lethean -Day And Then The Shade -Old Heart Falls

Hell yeah, so pumped to see ya'll have Katatonia on here! 🤘 A few of the members are also in Bloodbath if you want something very different. They got range! 🤘

This band went through a lot of different sounds over the years so there are songs by them you'll love and songs you might not be that into. Here are some songs that you'd really like: Forsaker, In The White, Lethean, Dead Letters, Residual, The Night Subscriber. A lot of people are requesting My Twin which is their most popular song but it's very straightforward and simple, I'm not sure if it would be good for a reaction video. I would say check that song out in your own time and react to one of these, which have a lot more variety.

Glad I checked this reaction out. Never heard this track...very good song. And thanks for sharing that Mikael Ackerfeldt was part of this. Ackerfeldt is IMO some kind of metal savant.

You guys are reviewing some of the best metal bands, it's so fun to watch this channel when you check these types of songs out. Wonder if you all would like in flames. They are the swedish metal greats. (Clayman album)

Katatonia is my favorite band they never let you down on every album

My favourite album of all-time. Stoked that you discovered them finally, plenty more to enjoy across their discography!

Wasn't expecting to see someone reactiimg to Katatonia. I clicked so fast in the thumbnail!

Dudes check out Forsaker! But really there's so many great tracks by these guys, they've been very consistent with their quality over the decades.

"Rusted" is another amazing song on this amazing album. I am so glad that yall liked this song as much as you did.

Been waiting 4 years for this.

in the winter of 2020 the youtube algorithm put this album in my recommended. I had never heard of katatonia but the art intrigued me, so i clicked, and wow. i usually dont listen to albums in full, but i must have listened the great cold distance about 100 times that winter.

Amazing underrated band.

You guys made me fuckin' LOL to such a sombre and melancholic song. Hats off man, fuckin hats off.

quality band. glad you guys reacted to them

Finally Katatonia!! Such a gem of a band. Probably won’t get you outlandish views/likes but they will open up something new in listeners and that is always more important. Don’t stop with this one song!