Brave Yester Days is the first compilation album by Swedish heavy metal band Katatonia. It contains the material from Katatonia's older era, mainly consisting of death/doom material, and a few alternative rock songs.

Brave Yester Days
Greatest hits album by
Released28 April 2004
RecordedJuly 1992 – August 1997
GenreProgressive metal
Death/doom
Alternative metal
Length130:18
LabelAvantgarde
ProducerKatatonia
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]

"Black Erotica" is an earlier version of "12" from Brave Murder Day and "Untrue" is a previously unreleased song from the Sounds of Decay sessions.

Reception

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Eduardo Rivadavia from AllMusic said that the compilation displays "Katatonia's gradual shift away from their doom/death origins" to a sound featuring "lighter guitars, incremental keyboards, and the replacement of deathly growls with clean-sung, melodic vocals" and called the album "an astoundingly well-conceived summary of Katatonia's purely metallic career" and "a frankly unbeatable bang-for-buck proposition when it comes to housing so many scattered releases under one roof."[1]

Track listing

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Disc 1
No.TitleAlbumLength
1."Midwinter Gates (Prologue)"Jhva Elohim Meth 
2."Without God"Jhva Elohim Meth 
3."Palace of Frost"Jhva Elohim Meth 
4."The Northern Silence"Jhva Elohim Meth 
5."Crimson Tears (Epilogue)"Jhva Elohim Meth 
6."Gateways of Bereavement"Dance of December Souls 
7."Velvet Thorns (of Drynwhyl)"Dance of December Souls 
8."Black Erotica"W.A.R. Compilation Vol. 1 
9."Love of the Swan"W.A.R. Compilation Vol. 1 
10."Funeral Wedding"For Funerals to Come... 
11."Shades of Emerald Fields"For Funerals to Come... 
12."For Funerals to Come"For Funerals to Come... 
13."Epistel"For Funerals to Come... 
Disc 2
No.TitleAlbumLength
1."Murder"Brave Murder Day4:54
2."Rainroom"Brave Murder Day6:31
3."Nowhere"Sounds of Decay6:08
4."At Last"Sounds of Decay6:13
5."Inside the Fall"Sounds of Decay6:20
6."Untrue"Brave Yester Days2:34
7."Nerve"Saw You Drown4:30
8."Saw You Drown"Saw You Drown5:01
9."Quiet World"Saw You Drown4:37
10."Scarlet Heavens"Katatonia / Primordial10:24

Credits

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Katatonia

References

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  1. ^ a b Rivadavia, Eduardo: Katatonia. Brave Yester Days, accessed on 11 June 2013.