| Brave Murder Day | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Katatonia |
| Cover: | BraveMurderDay.jpg |
| Released: | 1 August 1996[1] |
| Recorded: | July 1996 |
| Studio: | Unisound Studios |
| Label: | Avantgarde Music |
| Producer: | Katatonia |
| Prev Title: | For Funerals to Come... |
| Prev Year: | 1995 |
| Next Title: | Sounds of Decay |
| Next Year: | 1997 |
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.[2] It was also the band's first album with second guitarist Fredrik Norrman.
The original version of the record was not mastered, but the 2006 Peaceville Records re-release finally released a mastered version of the album and included the Sounds of Decay EP as bonus tracks.[3] The remastered edition also includes new liner notes by Anders Nyström. The previous Century Black reissue of the album included the four tracks from the band's For Funerals to Come... EP. A vinyl release was issued through the band's Northern Silence Productions.
All lyrics written by Jonas Renkse, all music composed by Katatonia.
The list of personnel involved in this album, as it appears in the booklet: