The mini-site for the new KATATONIA album is online now at www.nightisthenewday.com - including audio samples, downloads, album information, interviews, art gallery plus exclusive previously unseen studio diaries from the recording session.

A free MP3 of the track ‘Forsaker’ (streaming below) is also available to anyone that signs up for the mailing list.

Pre-order links for both the special Swedish edition CD (digibook package and 20 page booklet) and the vinyl edition (double gatefold 180g heavyweight vinyl) will be available from the site from tomorrow (September 15th).

Both these editions will feature a bonus track and all orders placed through the site will also come with an exclusive signed Katatonia postcard.

According to a press release, Night Is The New Day is the long-awaited new studio album of transcendental, atmospheric rock and metal, exploring the darker corners of audial melancholy. It was recorded throughout July 2009 and was co-produced, engineered and mixed by David Castillo. A continuation of the heaviness, depth and atmosphere of their previous album, Night Is the New Day is also a more multi-dimensional effort - waltzing between prog moments, doom, folk and the classic melodic anthems that are the staple of Katatonia’s uncompromising sound, completed by the haunting tones of Jonas Renkse’s vocal journeys of urban and emotional decay.

Cover art once again comes courtesy of Travis Smith (KATATONIA, OPETH, NOVEMBRE) and continues the stylistic identity established so effectively since The Great Cold Distance.

Katatonia are set to support British prog rock legends PORCUPINE TREE on tour, as well as an eventual headline tour to follow.

Dates include:

October

17 - Aladin - Bremen, Germany
18 - Vega - Copenhagen, Denmark
19 - Arenan - Stockholm, Sweden
21 - Ice Hall - Helsinki, Finland
23 - Sentrum Scene - Oslo, Norway