| Brave Yester Days | |
| Type: | greatest |
| Artist: | Katatonia |
| Cover: | Brave murder days.jpg |
| Released: | 28 April 2004 |
| Recorded: | July 1992 – August 1997 |
| Genre: | Progressive metal Death/doom Alternative metal |
| Length: | 130:18 |
| Label: | Avantgarde |
| Producer: | Katatonia |
Brave Yester Days is the first compilation album by Swedish heavy metal band Katatonia. It contains the material from Katatonia's older era, mainly consisting of death/doom material, and a few alternative rock songs.
"Black Erotica" is an earlier version of "12" from Brave Murder Day and "Untrue" is a previously unreleased song from the Sounds of Decay sessions.
Eduardo Rivadavia from AllMusic said that the compilation displays "Katatonia's gradual shift away from their doom/death origins" to a sound featuring "lighter guitars, incremental keyboards, and the replacement of deathly growls with clean-sung, melodic vocals" and called the album "an astoundingly well-conceived summary of Katatonia's purely metallic career" and "a frankly unbeatable bang-for-buck proposition when it comes to housing so many scattered releases under one roof."