Thank you Katatonia, for not giving us another boring, paint by numbers "I can do it in iMovie" music video of the band playing live with the cd track over the top. Thank you again for not going all story on us and trying to be epic (even though your music certainly warrants such a thing). Lastly, thank you Katatonia for picking the perfect setting for your music; the woods. Particularly, the woods at dusk when everything is it's most ominous.

However, you did one thing with your abstract, "let's get hot goth models in here to writhe around and shit" approach; you made me really, really confused. See, your new album, Night is the New Day, is amazing. It takes me on a dark, lonely journey that sends chills up my spine. Subsequently, I would love for the music video for one of the tracks to do the same. Instead, I find myself slightly disturbed, but not really "creep-ed out." I also got no real sense of dread, which is where the confusion came in. Why are these women doing this? Why are there worms everywhere? What's the buildings? What's that black shit some of the spew into the sky? I will admit, I sometimes don't get abstract art. Usually though, a general idea comes into my head about the meaning... eventually. This time, such was not the case. So kudos for following the Paradise Lost model of dark videos and trying to genuinely evoke those deep dark feelings, but you only half way got there.

Sincerely,
Dan.