Observing Dead Air

“It gave us some mental stability. It felt normal to meet up at our rehearsal space.”

This should have been a big year for Katatonia. The Swedish masters of dark prog were raring to go again after a short hiatus that ran from late 2017 to early 2019. At the start of this year, they were gearing up to release their 11th album, City Burials, due in April.

“When we had the break from the band in 2018, I didn’t miss it too much,” says Katatonia frontman Jonas Renkse of the hiatus, taken primarily so they could take a breather from their heavy touring schedule. The irony of this in the wake of Covid-19 restrictions isn’t lost on him. “Now we have this