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Cathedral To Celebrate 20 Years With Original Lineup; Presenting Their Seminal Album Forest of Equilibrium In Its Entirety

Posted on Monday, July 26th, 2010

The year 2010 marks the 20th anniversary of Cathedral and in order to commemorate the occasion the band will perform a one-off show on December 3 2010 at the O2 Academy in Islington, North London.

For one night only Cathedral will be performing two sets, including the entirety of their landmark debut album and doom metal classic, Forest of Equilibrium, where Lee Dorrian and Garry Jennings will be joined by the recording lineup Mark “Griff” Griffiths, Adam Lehan and Mike Smail. This will be followed by a second set of songs performed by the current lineup of Lee Dorian, Garry Jennings, Brian Dixon and Leo Smee.

Vocalist Lee Dorrian elaborates: “Cathedral has come along way since those dirge-ridden smoke-filled, cheap-lager- and sweat-infested early rehearsals back in 1990. To be brutally honest, back then we never imagined that we would have continued on a 20-year journey and still be here to tell the tale.

A lot of bands that have been around this long tend to shy away from their roots, in favor of more ‘accessible’ material that they wrote in their ‘maturing’ stages. Well, despite the fact that we may have expanded on our sound and style since those early days, we are certainly not embarrassed by our origins, in fact the opposite is true. To commemorate (commiserate?) this 20-year marathon, we thought it would be a cool idea to regroup the lineup of our first studio album for a special one-off show, and perform it in its entirety. Fortunately, everyone from those days agreed. This will mark the beginning of the evening, which will be followed by a set of material ‘post-Forest,’ bringing us right up to date with our latest album, ‘The Guessing Game’.

“We are excited about this event and look forward to seeing you there.”

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Cathedral: Trailer released for The Ethereal Mirror reissue bonus DVD

Posted on Monday, July 6th, 2009

A short trailer for the bonus DVD, Ethereal Reflections, that comes with the reissue of  The Ethereal Mirror, the classic 1993 album from British doom metal legends Cathedral, can be viewed below. Ethereal Mirror was almost as drastic a departure from Cathedral’s slow and meloncholic doom-drenched debut, Forest Of Equilibrium, ...read more

Album of the album: Cathedral – The Garden of Unearthly Delights

Posted on Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

The recent Cathedral albums while replete with voluminous riffs lacked the quirky, anachronistic otherworldliness which makes them so endearing, especially Lee Dorian’s livid Moorcock / Colin Wilson prose extolling the pleasures of myopic zombies, malevolent magi, and all other manner of devilish, altered states chicanery coupled with Garry Jennings’s cavernous ...read more