Discouraged Ones is the third full-length album by Katatonia

Katatonia

Katatonia is a Swedish metal band formed in Stockholm in 1991 by Jonas Renkse and Anders Nyström .-1991-1993:The early Katatonia releases, such as the EP Jhva Elohim Meth.....

. The album was released in 1998

1998 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1998.-Events:*January 28 – "Weird Al" Yankovic gets LASIK surgery to cure his myopia...

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This is the last Katatonia release with Mikael Oretoft. It is also their last release with Jonas Renkse on drums; on future Katatonia releases, he only performs vocals.

According to Jonas Renkse, Discouraged Ones sold roughly 20,000 copies since 2001.

Tracks 1-3, 5 and 8 were added to The Black Sessions.

Track listing

Release history

Date	Note
23 February 2007	2007 Reissue
2009	2009 Gramophone Record Gramophone record A gramophone record, commonly known as a phonograph record , vinyl record , or colloquially, a record, is an analog sound storage medium consisting of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove...  Reissue (150 Orange and 350 Yellow)

Credits

Katatonia

• Jonas Renkse – vocals
  Singing
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  , drums
  Drum kit
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• Anders Nyström – lead guitar
  Lead guitar
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  , electronic keyboard
  Electronic keyboard
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• Fredrik Norrman – rhythm guitar
  Rhythm guitar
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• Mikael Oretoft – bass guitar
  Bass guitar
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Guests

• Mikael Åkerfeldt - backing vocals
  Backing vocalist
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  , vocal production
• Tomas Skogsberg - engineering
  Audio engineering
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  , mixing
  Audio mixing (recorded music)
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