The Black Sessions

Infobox Album |
Name = The Black Sessions
Type = compilation
Artist = Katatonia


Released = February 21, 2005
Recorded = July 1997 through November 2002
Genre = Doom metal
Length = 03:26:25
Label = Peaceville
Producer = Katatonia, Thomas Skogsberg, Jocke Petterson
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Last album = "Brave Yester Days"
(2004)
This album = "The Black Sessions"
(2005)
Next album ="The Black Sessions" is a 3-disc (2 CD, 1 DVD) best-of album from Katatonia. It contains the material from Katatonia's recent era, which mainly consists of goth rock/doom metal material. For the France Inter live radio recordings see Black Sessions.

Included Material

This compilation features selections taken from the following albums:
*Discouraged Ones (1998)
*Tonight's Decision (1999)
*Teargas (2001)
*Last Fair Deal Gone Down (2001)
*Tonight's Music (2001)
*Viva Emptiness (2003)

"The Black Sessions" also contains one unreleased track from the sessions for "Viva Emptiness", named "Wait Outside".

Track listing

Disc one

# "Teargas" (from Last Fair Deal Gone Down)
# "Right Into the Bliss" (from Tonight's Decision)
# "Criminals" (from Viva Emptiness)
# "Help Me Disappear" (from Tonight's Music)
# "Nerve" (from Discouraged Ones)
# "The Future of Speech" (from Last Fair Deal Gone Down)
# "Ghost of the Sun" (from Viva Emptiness)
# "I Am Nothing" (from Tonight's Decision)
# "Deadhouse" (from Discouraged Ones)
# "Passing Bird" (from Last Fair Deal Gone Down)
# "Sleeper" (from Viva Emptiness)
# "Sulfur" (from Teargas)
# "No Devotion" (from Tonight's Decision)
# "Chrome" (from Last Fair Deal Gone Down)
# "A Premonition" (from Viva Emptiness)

Disc two

# "Dispossession" (from Last Fair Deal Gone Down)
# "Cold Ways" (from Discouraged Ones)
# "Nightmares by the Sea" (from Tonight's Decision)
# "O How I Enjoy the Light" (from Tonight's Music)
# "Evidence" (from Viva Emptiness)
# "March 4" (from Teargas)
# "I Break" (from Discouraged Ones)
# "For My Demons" (from Tonight's Decision)
# "Omerta" (from Viva Emptiness)
# "Tonight's Music" (from Last Fair Deal Gone Down)
# "Stalemate" (from Discouraged Ones)
# "Wait Outside" (unreleased track from Viva Emptiness recording sessions)
# "Fractured" (from Tonight's Decision)
# "Sweet Nurse" (from Last Fair Deal Gone Down)
# "Black Session" (from Tonight's Decision)

Disc three

Disc three is a live DVD performance of Katatonia in Krakow, Poland, while Katatonia was touring in support of "Viva Emptiness".

# "Ghost of the Sun"
# "Criminals"
# "Teargas"
# "I Break"
# "I Am Nothing"
# "Sweet Nurse"
# "Tonight's Music"
# "For My Demons"
# "Chrome"
# "The Future of Speech"
# "Complicity" (not included in CD compilation; from Viva Emptiness)
# "Burn the Remembrance" (not included in CD compilation; from Viva Emptiness)
# "Evidence"
# "Deadhouse"
# "Murder" (not included in CD compilation; from Brave Murder Day)

Credits

Tracks from Discouraged Ones

*Jonas Renkse - drums, guitars, lead vocals
*Anders Nyström - guitars, keyboards, backing vocals
*Fred Norrman - guitars
*Micke Oretoft - bass guitar
*All music and lyrics written by Nyström/Renkse.

Tracks from Tonight's Decision

*Jonas Renkse - lead and backing vocals
*Anders Nyström - guitars, keyboards, backing vocals
*Fred Norrman - guitars, bass guitar
*Dan Swanö - drums
*All music and lyrics by Nyström/Renkse, except "Nightmares by the Sea" by Jeff Buckley.

=Tracks from Teargas, Last Fair Deal Gone Down, and Tonight's Music=

*Jonas Renkse - lead and backing vocals
*Anders Nyström - lead/rhythm guitar, keyboards
*Fred Norrman - lead/rhythm guitar
*Daniel Liljekvist - drums
*Mattias Norrman - bass guitar
*All music written by Nyström/Renkse/Norrman.
*All lyrics written by Renkse.

Tracks from Viva Emptiness

*Jonas Renkse - vocals, guitars
*Anders Nyström - guitars, keyboards
*Fred Norrman - guitars
*Mattias Norrman - bass guitar
*Daniel Liljekvist - drums, percussion
*All songs written by Nyström/Renkse except "A Premonition" written by F. Norrman/Nyström/Renkse.
*All lyrics written by Renkse.