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The idea of Katatonia was
born back in late 1987, by the 13-year-old Blackheim (guitar) and
Lord Seth (drums and vocals) with the intention of playing extreme
music influenced by early Bathory and Celtic Frost. The band started
to rehearse a little in 1988 and composed some very primitive and
amateurish songs in a pure black metal vein. After this, they felt
they needed to complete the line-up, but after several failures with
mainly new members the band split up and went silent. Around 1991
the original two men line-up started to work things out by their own
again and composed a few songs based on the orginal concept of all
times. In summer 1992 the duo entered the famous studio Gorysound to
finally record something professional and official. The result was
the three track demo "Jhva Elohim Meth" which has been excellently
reviewed all over the world. The demo gone sold-out in the likes of
400 copies all in all. This successful demo has been then repressed
by the Dutch label Vic Records as miniCD, and confirming the
previous incredible response of the tape version, 1000 copies of the
MCD gone sold-out in four weeks. Another edition of 1000 copies was
when released in addition to fill the incredible request. In late
1992 they also added a third member called Israphel (bass guitar),
which provided them to rehearse properly and play gigs. At the same
time they also signed their first deal with the Swedish label No
Fashion for one album. In early April 1993 they entered Gorysound
Studio again (at the time changing name into actual Unisound Studio)
for a second time to record their debut album "Dance of December
Souls" which was released more than half a year later, in December
1993.
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