Live Consternation

Festival season is a glorious time of year if you're in Europe. Tons of festivals with tons of great bands. America could stand to learn something. So for this post we're going to Germany and the Summer Breeze Open Air Festival and feature some Katatonia.

Of course I've featured some Katatonia on the blog before, but for a band with a well established career, the band to date only has two Live albums. We'll focus on the first here. 'Live Consternation' was taken from the bands performance at Summer Breeze in '06. It wasn't released until '07 as part of a Live CD/DVD package. The DVD portion captures the same show for your visual pleasure. This is a pretty simple Live record. Clocks in at just over 52 minutes and features 11 tracks. The album tends to focus on the bands more recent works in 'The Great Cold Distance' and 'Viva Emptiness'. So for fans of their earlier stuff, sorry. That being said, the setlist is still solid Katatonia. The band is amazing Live and while they tend to not tour stateside all that often, definitely see them Live if you get the chance.

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