Re-mix and re-master = Completely new sound experience

Caveat: I'm really impressed! The original version of Viva Emptiness has brought me into contact with Katatonia and one of my Top 3 albums of all time. Since Katatonia never really with the Ursprungsmix and -master were satisfied (snare sound and guitar sound, definition and transparency), the boys have short given the disc to the 10th anniversary to David Castillo, who has done an incredible job with the band:

- New keyboard and synthesizer tracks by Frank Default with more depth and dynamics create new harmonies and give the songs a modern painting, although still recognizable as the original, but similar to The Great Cold Distance and the successors.
- The guitars sound (especially if not distorted) much more sophisticated. Only now you can hear what Mr Nyström and Norrman have since proved really great work for the timing and the effect application.
- The Drums can now fold down the pine charge. What used to sound powerful but also more conducive song now sounds scary dynamically (smallest hi-hat accents going straight to the ear) and very progressive. And the sharp snare (Katatonia's St. Anger ...) klignt now perfect. What a shame that you can now only hear what a drummer Daniel About Liljekvist even then.
- The song "Wait Outside", which comes from the VE session but made it as a B-side only in the Box "The Black Session", has been banned in a wonderful version of the new VE-Edition. Renkse's singing is higher than in the Urpsrungsversion. The material shows that had Katatonia even then achieved with packing a whole new level.
- The former instrumental "Inside the City of Glass" is also represented in the new sound and dress for the first time with song.

The whole is then bundled with new artwork from Katatonia strain artists and ingenious way with the same girl before origin Cover (just only 10 years older)

Conclusion: For those who have the original version, and also for those who Viva Emptiness not have the shelf: strong buy recommendation. I have not heard any such dynamic disk to date. Here Loudness is placed well behind dynamics. And I would not have thought it possible that such sounds without SA would have been possible CD. In short: WOW!