The Black Sessions

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The Black Sessions
Compilation album by 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
Katatonia chronology
Brave Yester Days (2004) The Black Sessions (2005)

The Black Sessions is a 3-disc (2 CD, 1 DVD) best-of album from Katatonia. It contains the material from Katatonia's 1998-2003 era, which mainly consists of goth rock/doom metal material.

Track listing

Disc 1
No.	Title	Album	Length
1.	"Teargas"	Teargas EP	3:32
2.	"Right Into the Bliss"	Tonight's Decision	5:05
3.	"Criminals"	Viva Emptiness	3:47
4.	"Help Me Disappear"	Tonight's Music	5:14
5.	"Nerve"	Saw You Drown	4:30
6.	"The Future of Speech"	Last Fair Deal Gone Down	5:39
7.	"Ghost of the Sun"	Viva Emptiness	4:07
8.	"I Am Nothing"	Tonight's Decision	4:37
9.	"Deadhouse"	Discouraged Ones	4:35
10.	"Passing Bird"	Last Fair Deal Gone Down	3:38
11.	"Sleeper"	Viva Emptiness	4:08
12.	"Sulfur"	Teargas EP	6:23
13.	"No Devotion"	Tonight's Decision	4:49
14.	"Chrome"	Last Fair Deal Gone Down	5:14
15.	"A Premonition"	Viva Emptiness	3:34

Disc two

Disc 2
No.	Title	Album	Length
1.	"Dispossession"	Last Fair Deal Gone Down	5:37
2.	"Cold Ways"	Discouraged Ones	5:23
3.	"Nightmares by the Sea"	Tonight's Decision	4:16
4.	"O How I Enjoy the Light"	Tonight's Music	2:44
5.	"Evidence"	Viva Emptiness	4:36
6.	"March 4"	Teargas EP	3:53
7.	"I Break"	Discouraged Ones	4:22
8.	"For My Demons"	Tonight's Decision	5:43
9.	"Omerta"	Viva Emptiness	2:58
10.	"Tonight's Music"	Last Fair Deal Gone Down	4:20
11.	"Stalemate"	Discouraged Ones	4:19
12.	"Wait Outside"	Previously unreleased	3:38
13.	"Fractured"	Tonight's Decision	5:52
14.	"Sweet Nurse"	Last Fair Deal Gone Down	3:56
15.	"Black Session"	Tonight's Decision	7:02

Notes

• Wait Outside is an Unreleased track from Viva Emptiness Recording Sessions.

Disc three

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

1. "Ghost of the Sun"
2. "Criminals"
3. "Teargas"
4. "I Break"
5. "I Am Nothing"
6. "Sweet Nurse"
7. "Tonight's Music"
8. "For My Demons"
9. "Chrome"
10. "The Future of Speech"
11. "Complicity" (not included in CD compilation; from Viva Emptiness)
12. "Burn the Remembrance" (not included in CD compilation; from Viva Emptiness)
13. "Evidence"
14. "Deadhouse"
15. "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.

See also

• List of "Greatest Hits" albums