Thursday, April 9, 2026

Katatonia - Last Fair Deal Gone (2001)

 

The fifth album from this band from Sweden.

The band was a quintet with a lineup of drums, bass, guitars, mellotron and vocals.

This album is clocking in at fifty minutes.

The band and their music had been in a transition between doom/death metal and alternative rock on the last couple of albums.

Last Fair Deal Gone sees the band arriving in the alternative rock scene. A genre they were to fully embrace during the rest of their career. I am by no means a fan of alternative metal/rock. 

The music is still heavy and it retains a lot of metal. The label is therefore also alternative metal/rock. There is also a lot of grunge here.  

The vocals are good throughout this album. The guitars too are good and the mellotron is spicing up the music.

The quality is pretty good with a couple of good songs here. I am still not won over by this band's change of direction.

2.5 points 

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