Saw You Drown

Saw You Drown
EP by Katatonia
Released	1 January 1998
Recorded	February 1994 (4) July–August 1997 (1-3)
Genre	Dark rock
Length	24:32
Label	Avantgarde Music
Producer	Katatonia (1-3) Dan Swanö (4)
Katatonia chronology
Sounds of Decay (1997) Saw You Drown (1998) Discouraged Ones (1998)

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Saw You Drown is an extended play released by Katatonia in 1998, limited to 1500 handnumbered copies. In 2005, it was re-issued on clear/blue wax 10" LP in 1000 hand-numbered copies.^[2]

The first two tracks are previews of the then-upcoming Discouraged Ones album, while "Quiet World" was recorded in the same Sunlight Studios 1997 session as Sounds of Decay,^[3][4] and "Scarlet Heavens" was a hard-to-find 1994^[3] recording originally issued on the 1996 Katatonia/Primordial Split 10".^[5]

While most of the band's previous efforts included distorted or screamed vocals, Saw You Drown and all of the band's subsequent releases feature almost exclusively clean vocals. This release first shows on the album cover the band's changed & second logo, coinciding with the change in sound.

Track listing

1. "Saw You Drown" – 5:02
2. "Nerve" – 4:31
3. "Quiet World" – 4:37
4. "Scarlet Heavens" – 10:25

Personnel

Katatonia

• Jonas Renkse – lead vocals, drums
• Anders Nyström – guitar; backing vocals & keyboards (tracks 1-3)
• Fredrik Norrman – guitar (1-3)
• Micke Oretoft – bass (1-3)
• Guillaume Le Huche – bass (4)

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