{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2022}} {{Infobox album | name = Tonight's Decision | type = Album | artist = Katatonia | cover = TonightsDecision.jpg | alt = | released = {{Start date|1999|08|31|df=y}} | recorded = February–April 1999 | venue = | studio = | genre = Alternative rock<ref name = York>York, William. [{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r530733|pure_url=yes}} Tonight's Decision review] allmusic.com. Retrieved 10 December 2009.</ref><!-- please don't make unexplained genre changes! --> | length = {{Duration|m=56|s=14}} | label = Peaceville | producer = Katatonia | prev_title = Discouraged Ones | prev_year = 1998 | next_title = Last Fair Deal Gone Down | next_year = 2001 }} {{Album ratings |rev1 = AllMusic |rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r468084/review|pure_url=yes}} AllMusic review]</ref> |rev2= ''Chronicles of Chaos'' |rev2score=8/10<ref name=CoC>{{cite web|url=http://www.chroniclesofchaos.com/articles.aspx?id=2-1347|last=Azevedo|first=Pedro|title=Katatonia - Tonight's Decision|website=Chronicles of Chaos|date=12 August 1999|access-date=12 February 2026}}</ref> |rev3 = Metal.de |rev3score = 6/10<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.metal.de/reviews/katatonia-tonight-s-decision-588/|title=Katatonia - Tonight's Decision|website=Metal.de|date=11 September 1999|access-date=12 February 2026}}</ref> }}
'''''Tonight's Decision''''' is the fourth studio album by Swedish rock band Katatonia, released in 1999 by Peaceville Records. It was reissued in 2003 with two bonus tracks.
== Background == Around this time, the band were being influenced less by metal and more by alternative, with Renkse citing Jeff Buckley, whose song "Nightmares by the Sea" was covered on this album, as well as Radiohead as examples.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|last1=Rocher|first1=David|last2=Azevedo|first2=Pedro|last3=Bromley|first3=Adrian|date=2001|title=Songs of Quintessential Sorrow: CoC interrogates Jonas Renkse of Katatonia|url=http://www.chroniclesofchaos.com/articles.aspx?id=1-355|website=Chronicles of Chaos}}</ref>
Renkse's close friend, Mikael Åkerfeldt of Opeth, was present to help record, produce and work on ideas for vocal tracks.<ref name=":0" />
== Track listing == {{tracklist | all_writing = Nyström and Renkse except where noted | title1 = For My Demons | length1 = 5:47 | title2 = I Am Nothing | length2 = 4:37 | title3 = In Death, a Song | length3 = 4:51 | title4 = Had to (Leave) | length4 = 6:03 | title5 = This Punishment | length5 = 2:46 | title6 = Right Into the Bliss | length6 = 5:04 | title7 = No Good Can Come of This | length7 = 4:24 | title8 = Strained | length8 = 4:15 | title9 = A Darkness Coming | length9 = 5:01 | title10 = Nightmares by the Sea | note10= Jeff Buckley | length10 = 4:15 | title11 = Black Session | note11 = song ends at 7:00 and a hidden track begins at 7:25 | length11 = 9:15 | total_length = 56:14 }} {{tracklist | headline = 2003 re-release | title11 = Black Session | note11 = without hidden track | length11 = 7:00 | title12 = No Devotion | length12 = 4:48 | title13 = Fractured | note13 = song ends at 3:30 and the same hidden track starts at 4:00 | length13 = 5:52 | total_length = 64:39 }}
== Personnel == === Katatonia === * Jonas Renkse – vocals * Anders Nyström – guitars, keyboards, backing vocals * Fredrik Norrman – bass * Dan Swanö – session drums
=== Additional personnel === * Mikael Åkerfeldt – additional vocal production * Travis Smith – artwork, design, layout * Paul Loasby – management * Mia Lorentzson – mastering * Joakim Petterson – engineering * Tomas Skogsberg – engineering * Camilla Af Geijerstam – photography * Martin Bencik – desert photography assistant * Brad Gilson Jr. – photography
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