Instead of a re-release of your debut album, an even better way to celebrate your 30th anniversary is to release a new album of all-new music. That’s what Scandinavian heavy metal masters Katatonia are doing with the release of their twelfth studio recording Sky Void of Stars, formally released today via Napalm Records. The album is a feast of dark metal, soaring post-rock, and elaborate progressive metal, with the final product a set of tracks that are both a crushing and exhilarating experience. Although their style of music has evolved along the way since their gothic-flavoured doom metal of the 1990s to the more post-metal sound that they feature today, the quintet has always stuck to their mission of being an outlet of deep emotion, complete with the Scandinavian despair with which th...