s/d cathedral

I like Stained glass mirrors from the latter.
From the former. Well, the first couple of releases were excellent doom.
They later went into more of a "grooy hardrock" type of deal. I like pretty much everything they've done of that, with the exception of Supernatural Birth Machine.
Errrm, what else ? Oh, they went BACK to doom again on Endtyme, which I have no opinion of at the moment. Then they went back to groovybuns again on the new album, which I haven't heard more than a couple of songs from.

So uhh. My two favorites from that Cathedral = "Caravan beyond redemption" and "Forest of Equilibrium". One from each style, at that!

saw them on the "ethereal mirror" tour and they were _great_, but the mercyful fate fans wouldn't havy any part of it.

i always hoped their obscure folk/progressive obsessions (fresh maggots!) would come out in their music a little more, but that same comment could apply to opeth as well.

such a fucking sick and awesome band

I liked the long multi-part epic on that EP.

awful singer

lee dorrian had a kind of crappy voice once he started trying to sing properly.

otm. early stuff is cool

listening to Endtyme tonight...slept-on record, tone out of control. the singing doesn't bother me, it's like Lemmy without any meth

damn I haven't listened to this in a long time and it is just hitting all the spots right now. "whores to oblivion," that digital break-apart at the end of it - these riffs - fuck, dudes. this is a proper fucking doom record imo

Endtyme is the only one after Forest that I really get behind. Perhaps that is why I'm in the studio all week with the same producer in charge :)

new album the guessing game rules. "funeral of dreams" is a major jam. psych flourishes meld beautifully with the stoner metalisms

Yes. The new record is amazing. On rolling metal thread I described some of the tracks as sounding like the heaviest possible Yes with the woodwinds from Van Der Graaf and Art Bears drafted in. Even the dialogue snippets from old genre films are awesome. J0hn D says album of the year so far; I don't have anything to top it at this point except maybe the new Fall.

ok this is awesome

I love it all but it's just gotten to 'the running man' which is, like, flat-out ridiculously good

:D

The more I play this the better it gets. Just amazing straight through both discs.

I wear a mask, oh yes I do
it may seem harsh but it hides the truth
see I am pained by what I see
in this life, this reality
the word "love" people say with shame
but in this heart there's a burning flame
I take a look at society
a misfit, I guess that's me

will our vinyl be rare and collectible?
will we be the in thing?

man this record is ridiculous. all over the map. not sure what to make of it yet, it's a mess. but a good mess.

to me the thing is that it's so surprisingly ambitious - it's like, this is what we wanna do, it's not really anything anybody else is doing, probably gonna put some people off, whatever: this is what we got. really amazing. been listening weekly since i got it.

Smithy -- Weird thing is that they had done those, like, Prog Epic, things as far back as 1994! That whole "Voyage of the Homeless Sapien" thing. Which I was SO excited for, as a big Cathedral fan at that time. I fucking LOVED 'Ethereal Mirror'. and then I realized that their big 20 minute epic was .... *not* exactly Yes. kind of half-assed, actually. and then I kind of stopped paying attention to Cathedral, as much as I dug those first three years or so of their existence. I loved it, but even some of my hard-core metal dudes just could not get down with Cathedral. They laughed at them. That kind of pissed my off, but whatever. I think I actually stopped paying attention more out of laziness than anything else. There are a million bands where I am slavish to a certain point, and then for some unknown reason I stop paying attention.

so anyway, long-winded prelude aside, I bought this new fucker on the backs of ppl like you and Jon Lewis -- two of a handful of ppl on ILM I really hold in high regard in terms of taste -- and I am digging it! no question! I am just a little befuddled. is all. i guess i should fill in the gaps between Ethereal Mirror and the new one, to start....

i think i bought this the day it came out or something but it's still so fuckin long that it's intimidating imo -- have only listened to a couple tracks so far

parenting tip, when you've done all you can about the tantrum and you've tapped out to let mommy bring her deeper emotional judo to the game, Cathedral is the band you wanna retire to the stereo with

One of those bands I didn't really dig the short samples of but tried because of the weight of their acclaim. Glad I did. Started with Forest Of Equilibrium unsurprisingly.

Love his voice, especially on "Serpent Eve", must be awesome to sing like that.

But my favorite thing is the chorus on "Commiserating The Celebration" : "Real is the oration of stone possessed emotion.
I yearn isolation from this realization". Such a wonderful moment.

Lyrics incorporate David Park Barnitz! Not a reference you see everyday.

Looking at all the sleeve influences listed I'm seeing a lot of stuff I've never heard of. Loch Ness? Count Raven? Lord Of Putrefaction? Hellhound? Monument? Forest? Tempest? I think I've heard of Winter.

Wish I could have got the dvd + Soul Sacrifice EP version

Did Earache keep those dvd editions in print of their big bands?

"Into the gates, the jelly master wobbling jiggling!"

Didn't know much at all about this band so the stylistic change in Ethereal Mirror really taken me aback (although more research suggests there was a previous EP that started this change). I missed the crouching slow deliberate vocals of the previous album (do they ever go back to that?) but I like this album more overall, it's a lot of fun. "Enter The Worms" is just awesome.

Not as obscure as the Nurse With Wound list, but the continuing lists of bands in the sleeves have a lot of stuff I don't know.

I've been listening to Forest of Equilibrium a lot the last couple of weeks. It's definitely a late-autumn winter thing. I want to climb right inside some of the riffs.