KATATONIA Confirmed For Czech Republic's BRUTAL ASSAULT FESTIVAL

Sweden's KATATONIA has been confirmed for the Brutal Assault Festival, set to take place August 10-12 in Svojsice U Prelouce (100 km east of Prague),Czech Republic. The festival billing is shaping up as follows (in alphabetical order):

ABORTED
ADOR DORATH
BELPHEGOR
BY NIGHT
CATARACT
CEPHALIC CARNAGE
DEICIDE
DEPRESY
DIE APOKALYPTISCHEN REITER
DISMEMBER
DYING FETUS
E-FORCE
ENSIFERUM
ENSLAVED
GOREROTTED
GORGOROTH
IMMOLATION
KATATONIA
LE SCRAWL
LENG TCH'E
MADBALL
MITHRAS
PAIN
RED HARVEST
ROOT
SATURNUS
SATYRICON
THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER
TO-MERA
UPRISE
VADER

KATATONIA's live performance from last year's Summer Breeze open-air festival in Germany will be released as a double-disc live album/DVD, entitled "Live Consternation", on May 28. The "super jewelcase" packaging will feature both the audio on CD and the show on DVD (including both 2.0 and 5.1 versions). The artwork was once again designed by Travis Smith and will close the visual concept for "The Great Cold Distance" phase. The track listing will be as follows:

01. Leaders
02. Wealth
03. Soil's Song
04. Had to (Leave)
05. Cold Ways
06. Right into the Bliss
07. Ghost of the Sun
08. Criminals
09. Deliberation
10. July
11. Evidence

KATATONIA's brand new video for the song "July", shot and directed by Charlie Granberg, has been posted online at YouTube.com.

Commented Granberg: "It's basically a perfomance video. But I wanted the feeling of the band playing in a very rough, abandonded or even bombed out house, in an extremely warm country like Mexico or somewere in the middle east. Dark on the inside, but with sunbeams searching their way through the dust, hitting the bandmembers here and there. I really wanted the feeling of the outside world being so much better and brighter than the place the band is in. The biggest challenge with this video I think, was that I wanted to use really warm and grainy colours, wich is kinda rare in this type of music, but at the same time wrap it in a gloomy, apocalyptic feeling. But I think the balance is there and I'm happy the band liked it so much."

As previously reported, Peaceville has pushed the release date of the physical "July" CD single to April 9, but pre-orders are now being taken from Snapper Music. The digital download was released on February 26 and can be purchased from iTunes, Napster, Sonicstage and Emusic. In addition to the title track, the single includes a brand new/previously unreleased song called "Unfurl", a remix of "Soil's Song" by Krister Linder, and the video for "July".