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Brave Murder Day

1996 studio album by Katatonya

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 15, 2026
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Brave Murder Day is the second studio album by Swedish heavy metal band Katatonia, released on 1 August 1996 by Avantgarde Music. The lead vocals on the album are provided by Mikael Åkerfeldt of Opeth, as Katatonia frontman Jonas Renkse was medically unable to perform screamed vocals anymore following health issues that arose from performing the band's debut. It was also the band's first album with second guitarist Fredrik Norrman.

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The public source identifies “Brave Murder Day” as 1996 studio album by Katatonya. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Brave, Murder and studio.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1996—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Brave, Murder and studio providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Brave Murder Day” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.