Katatonia Discusses Rise to Musical Success & Life on the Road!

Swedish Heavy Metal band Katatonia is celebrating their 20th anniversary of musical existence this year. Katatonia was born in Stockholm, Sweden in 1991 when Jonas Renkse (formerly aka Lord Seth) and Anders Nyström (formerly aka Blakkheim) joined musical forces. The bands anniversary celebration is currently taking place in North America in an extensive tour with fellow countrymen Opeth.
Sonically speaking, after carefully analyzing the rise of the Swedish Death Metal scene in the early 90s, Katatonia made the conscious decision of adding melodic elements to the Skandinavian signature sound in order to create something fresh and unique. Ever since their inception the band has been hard at work perfecting their musical craft both on and off stage. In order to keep their creative flow going strong, once they get back home from their current trek across North America, their plan is get busy with the production of their eighth studio album.
Recently, Katatonia and Opeth performed two sold out shows at the Webster Hall in New York City and before Katatonia took center stage we had the chance to sit down to chat with guitarist/co-founder Anders "Blakkheim" Nyström, who was joined by his co-guitarist Per "Sodomizer" Eriksson. During the conversation, we chatted about the bands rise to musical success, about life on the road, and much more. So sit back, relax and enjoy!

[@nicholasderusha]

i'm sorry katatonia had to come to the u.s. because i feel they are not respected here as they deserve, but from the bottom of my heart, i thank them for coming! i've seen them once in detroit and twice in atlanta and they are, by far, the best band of the end of the world! much love & respect!

[@stuffilike12]

A little hangover *holds a bottle of booze 🤣

[@6hypnone]

Can't get enough of Anders

[@Schluuma]

I’ll be honest I used to not think much of him when I first started listen to Katatonia, but now I whole heartedly love and respect Anders and the love he puts into the band

[@RobboElRobbo]

Anders is such a boss.

[@dravensoulno6]

love katatonia

[@MarkGonz123]

I was at this show lol, was one amazing night

[@Albuffy18]

Katatonia \m/ (-.-) \m/ probaly one of my favourite band !! rock on

[@immortallix]

"hail satan man"

[@Vampiresarrow]

WTF with the sunglasses?

[@TheShmrsh]

okay hail satan :D i knew that i shouldn't take them seriously