| Brave Yester Days | |
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| Greatest hits album by Katatonia | |
| Released | April 28, 2004 |
| Recorded | July 1992 - August 1997 |
| Genre |
Progressive metal Death/doom Alternative metal |
| Length | 130:18 |
| Label | Avantgarde |
| Producer | Katatonia |
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| Allmusic | |
Brave Yester Days is a 2-disc best-of album by Katatonia. It contains the material from Katatonia's older era, mainly consisting of death/doom material, and a few alternative rock songs.
"Black Erotica" is an earlier version of "12" from Brave Murder Day and "Untrue" is a previously unreleased song from the Sounds of Decay sessions.
Eduardo Rivadavia from Allmusic said that the compilation displays "Katatonia's gradual shift away from their doom/death origins" to a sound featuring "lighter guitars, incremental keyboards, and the replacement of deathly growls with clean-sung, melodic vocals" and called the album "an astoundingly well-conceived summary of Katatonia's purely metallic career" and "a frankly unbeatable bang-for-buck proposition when it comes to housing so many scattered releases under one roof."