Discouraged Ones

Discouraged Ones (stylized discøuraged ønes) is the third studio album by Swedish heavy metal band Katatonia, released on 27 April 1998. This is the only Katatonia album with bassist Micke Oretoft. It is also their last release with Jonas Renkse on drums; on future releases, he was the band's lead vocalist and contributed additional guitar work. According to Renkse, Discouraged Ones had sold roughly 20,000 copies as of 2001.^[5]

Discouraged Ones
Studio album by Katatonia
Released	27 April 1998 (1998-04-27)
Recorded	July–August 1997
Studio	Sunlight Studios[1]
Genre	Gothic metal[2]
Length	46:57
Label	Avantgarde Music
Producer	Katatonia
Katatonia chronology
Saw You Drown (1998) Discouraged Ones (1998) Tonight's Decision (1999)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[3]
Chronicles of Chaos	9/10[4]

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"I Break"	4:24
2.	"Stalemate"	4:21
3.	"Deadhouse"	4:37
4.	"Relention"	3:39
5.	"Cold Ways"	5:22
6.	"Gone"	2:49
7.	"Last Resort"	4:37
8.	"Nerve"	4:32
9.	"Saw You Drown"	5:04
10.	"Instrumental"	2:52
11.	"Distrust"	4:57
Total length:		46:57

All tracks are written by Renkse and Nyström unless noted otherwise.

2007 re-release bonus tracks

No.	Title	Length
12.	"Quiet World" (written by Nyström, Renkse, F. Norrman, Oretoft)	4:39
13.	"Scarlet Heavens"	10:26
Total length:		62:02

Release history

Date	Note
27 April 1998	1998 original issue
23 February 2007	2007 reissue
2009	2009 LP reissue (150 orange and 350 yellow)
2011	2011 LP reissue (350 black and 550 orange)
2013	2013 LP reissue
2019	2019 LP reissue

Personnel

Katatonia

• Jonas Renkse – drums, guitars, lead vocals
• Anders Nyström – guitars, keyboards, backing vocals
• Fred Norrman – guitars
• Micke Oretoft – bass

Additional personnel

• Mikael Åkerfeldt – backing vocals, vocal production^[6]
• Tomas Skogsberg – engineering, mixing
• Fred Estby – engineering
• Pressens Bild – photography
• Tom Martinsen – photography, digital design
• Maria Winsnes – photography
• David Castillo – remastering
• reesycle.com – layout