Advantages: Very interesting start to a great career Disadvantages: Slow, depressing and very extreme
...of the most underrated bands in metal history, and it’s time someone redressed the balance. Their new album, Endtyme, is being released on the 26th of February, and so I have decided to review their entire back catalogue before then. Cathedral began life way back in 1990 when vocalist Lee Dorrian left death metal legends Napalm Death behind him. Him new band, Cathedral, couldn’t have been more of a departure.
Their first release was ... ...time. Cathedral played doom metal, in the vein of Saint Vitus, but much slower and heavier. This was certainly the heaviest music being released at the time. Since then, this EP has been re-released with four live tracks. This very early material is thoroughly unpolished, but has a strange charm all of its own. The riffs are fairly standard stuff, relying on growling, down tuned guitars rumbling away to make an impression. The guitar tone is one ...
Spongly 19.02.2001 (20.02.2001)
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Once vocalist Lee Dorrian had helped Napalm Death become the absolute apotheosis of speed ... more
metal, blasting out tracks of unconscionable power and velocity, he set himself a new challenge. This was to update and even upstage the brutal grind of metal pio...
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