Katatonia - Viva Emptiness

In recent months, I've been inundated with new music that, in most cases is pretty damn good, but has kept me from one of the main reasons Racer and I started this mad cap Ripple world in the first place. The main reason we kicked this thing into high gear last year was so that we could tell all who were interested about all this great music that has been grossly underappreciated and overlooked by the mass media. So, at the risk of raising the ire of those who have kept our offices in an almost constant chaotic clutter of shining silver music capsules and so much paper product that we can hear Al Gore crying in the distance, I've chosen to go back a few years and tell y'all about an album that's spent an unprecedented amount of time living in my CD player. That album, as you may have guessed, is Katatonia's Viva Emptiness.