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Katatonia - The Great Cold Distance



8.7 | 1114 votes |
Release date: 13 March 2006
Style: Alternative rock

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01. Leaders
02. Deliberation
03. Soil's Song
04. My Twin
05. Consternation
06. Follower
07. Rusted
08. Increase
09. July
10. In The White
11. The Itch
12. Journey Through Pressure
13. Displaced [Special edition bonus]
14. Dissolving Bonds [Special edition bonus]
15. Code Against The Code [Special edition bonus]
16. Unfurl [Special edition bonus]

The Best Doom Metal Album Of 2006
Top 20 albums of 2006: 5
Top 200 albums of all time: 175

Additional info
Special Edition also includes a DVD-Audio with a 5.1 Mix of the entire album

Staff review by
Jeff
Rating:
8.5
Three years after the great, but surprising, "Viva Emptiness", Katatonia is back with their 7th releases the "The Great Cold Distance". Always with this really particular sound, but with some new sonority too, "The Great Cold Distance" will probably be a real success. Will it be right? Do they really deserve success with this new album? I think so, because no doubt that Katatonia did something nice, one more time; with this new album?

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published 05.03.2006 | Comments (30)

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19.11.2011 - 23:09
musicalkaratekid

Brilliant album,and probably their best album of the 21st century, with the exception of viva emptiness.
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26.08.2012 - 02:45
Rating: 9
Therapy?

Why is it that I can't find the Special Edition with the songs "Code Against The Code" and "Unfurl" ?
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26.08.2012 - 18:00
Rating: 8
X-Ray Rod
Skandino
Written by musicalkaratekid on 19.11.2011 at 23:09

Brilliant album,and probably their best album of the 21st century, with the exception of viva emptiness.


It's a good album but there's some filler and the production doesn't really suits that well. Sounds way too cold and clinical... Not Katatonia-like. Would easily take LFDGD and VE over this one. But it's at least better than the latest one and the one before. Songs like Leaders, Deliberation and In The White are pretty awesome but unfortunately there are songs like Soil's Song, Increase or Consternation which are quite a snore fest at some points.
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Written by BloodTears on 19.08.2011 at 18:29
Like you could kiss my ass
Written by Milena on 20.06.2012 at 10:49
Rod, let me love you.
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26.08.2012 - 19:16
musicalkaratekid

Written by X-Ray Rod on 26.08.2012 at 18:00

Written by musicalkaratekid on 19.11.2011 at 23:09

Brilliant album,and probably their best album of the 21st century, with the exception of viva emptiness.


It's a good album but there's some filler and the production doesn't really suits that well. Sounds way too cold and clinical... Not Katatonia-like. Would easily take LFDGD and VE over this one. But it's at least better than the latest one and the one before. Songs like Leaders, Deliberation and In The White are pretty awesome but unfortunately there are songs like Soil's Song, Increase or Consternation which are quite a snore fest at some points.


I remember writing this when 'The great cold Distance' was basically the only album I ever heard from katatonia. Now having heard 'all katatonia albums I feel as if this album is slightly overhyped. I'll listen to it some time soon to change my rating, because listening to the songs with a little more focus it seems that they don't match up to the likes of 'Brave Murder Day' or 'Viva Emptiness'. I can't think of a single shit katatonia album though...
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26.08.2012 - 20:33
Rating: 9
Therapy?

Written by Guest on 26.08.2012 at 18:25

Written by Therapy? on 26.08.2012 at 02:45

Why is it that I can't find the Special Edition with the songs "Code Against The Code" and "Unfurl" ?

http://www.burningshed.com/store/peaceville/product/241/1899/ | Dunno what's that 'special edition'.


Thanks, but that's vinyl. Not CD, unfortunately
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29.09.2012 - 02:00
Rating: 9
CobiWan1993
Secundum Filium
Amazing album, definitely one of the best albums they have released in the 2000s. \m/
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Ordinary men hate solitude. But the Master makes use of it, embracing his aloneness, realizing he is one with the whole universe (Lao Tzu).
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15.08.2014 - 19:21
Rating: 8
Deadmeat
Necrobutcher
Many many fillers on this album. at least the first 5 songs are great...
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Υou've sold your human essence to the cold world of dead and empty things... You're SOLD!
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13.09.2014 - 09:53
Rating: 10
_deepblack

Surly this is their best album
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05.01.2016 - 01:22
Wukk

I still think this is one of the best albums there is.
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28.01.2016 - 13:12
Rating: 9
Legmeister

Overall its a good album but there are a 2 or 3 really poor songs
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24.10.2016 - 04:48
Maco
Pvt Funderground
They truly went downhill after Viva Emptiness.
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Crackhead Megadeth reigns supreme.
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23.11.2018 - 04:28
carltonh

After listening to this with hifi gear, a Sennheiser HD58X headphone through an Ifi Nano DAC-Amp, the insanely good production really lets the music shine through. In fact, not much metal has better production value than this album.
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10.08.2023 - 05:45
Rating: 8
Jack_Torrance

This is so excellent in it's subtleties
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