Chordplay - The Chords Of Katatonia

Hey everyone! Here's the next episode of Chordplay with The Chords Of Katatonia. As I mentioned in the video, Katatonia is one of my favorite bands and I've been listening to them constantly over the last several years. While I haven't had any requests to feature their music on the LNL channel, I wanted to put this episode together, mainly because I'm a huge fan of their music and wanted to share this lesson with any viewers looking for some new music to sink their teeth (and fingers) into - let's dive in!

Katatonia formed in Sweden in 1991 and was originally an authentic Swedish Death Metal group with screaming vocals/corpsepaint, but over the years their style/sound has changed to more of an overly melodic prog-rock/metal style, with clean vocals and lots of moody melodic ideas floating around between the heavy riffs, ambient soundscapes, wicked guitar solos, mellow acoustic guitars, dreamy melodic textures, and the various other cool sounds found in their music.

The song examples in this lesson were pulled from Katatonia's most recent releases, including some very interesting chord-based ideas from songs such as 'Sanction,' 'Behind The Blood,' 'Onward Into Battle,' 'Second,' 'The Winter Of Our Passing,' 'Takeover,' and 'Pale Flag' - to name a few.

Needless to say, if you're a Katatonia fan, a fan of progressive rock/metal, or a guitarist searching for some new music to devour and useful ideas to borrow/explore - this episode is totally for you! Give this episode a view, leave some comments/feedback, and please subscribe to Late Night Lessons - THANK YOU!