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Katatonia

Doom metal
Doom metal

Katatonia is a Doom metal act. Their sound grew out of Evergrey, Palace Music, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Opeth and Paradise Lost. Those roots explain a lot about how Katatonia arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Anathema, Paradise Lost, My Dying Bride, Daylight Dies and Soen, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Infected Rain, Daylight Dies, Moonspell, Swallow the Sun and Agalloch, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 42 connections around Katatonia, reaching back through Evergrey and forward to Infected Rain. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.

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KatatoniaEvergreyPalace MusicBonnie 'Prince' BillyOpethParadise LostPeaceville RecordsWill OldhamCeltic FrostInfected RainDaylight DiesMoonspellSwallow the SunAgallochCatameniaForgotten SunriseForgotten TombAnathemaParadise LostMy Dying BrideDaylight DiesSoenSaturnusWoods of YpresTiamat

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Katatonia connections

Katatonia grew out of Evergrey, Palace Music, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy and Opeth, shares an orbit with Anathema, Paradise Lost, My Dying Bride and Daylight Dies, went on to shape Infected Rain, Daylight Dies, Moonspell and Swallow the Sun. 42 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.

Who influenced Katatonia

Roots19

Sounds and acts that shaped Katatonia.

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Kindred15

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