The sun was burning red hot in Helsinki and the people were having fun by enjoying such a beautiful day, drinking the beer and boozing all around. When arriving at the Nosturi venue, the whole sunny day was pretty much gone. The darkened club atmosphere created the opposite feeling and…
Cathedral
Septic Tank – Rotting Civilisation
Reviewed: May, 2018 Released: 2018 Rise Above Records Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: Peter Atkinson After kicking around as more myth or concept than actual “thing” for the better part of 20 years, and offering but a tease with a four-track, 7-minute EP in 2013, the supergroup Septic Tank have finally come…
CATHEDRAL’s critically-lauded final album debuts on Billboard charts
CATHEDRAL’s The Last Spire was released last week in North America and serves as the final entry in the band’s vastly influential, decade-spanning career. Lee Dorrian explains that he feels “comfortable leaving The Last Spire as our legacy. The funeral of Cathedral has been a long but gratifying process. Deciding…
CATHEDRAL’s final music video, “Tower of Silence”, now available
“The Last Spire” to be released April 30th in North America UK doom legends, CATHEDRAL, will be releasing their final album, The Last Spire, next month. In addition to the album, the band also recorded their final music video, which is streaming now at youtube.com/cathedral. Tower of Silence was inspired…
CATHEDRAL stream new single, unveil cover for “The Last Spire”
Cathedral‘s The Last Spire will be released in North America on April 30th, 2013. Recorded at Orgone Studios in London, produced by Lee Dorrian and Garry Jennings with assistance, mixing by Jamie Gomez Arellano, and art by Dave Patchett and Arik Roper, The Last Spire will stand as the band’s…
Cathedral: The Last Spire
IN MEMORIAM: CATHEDRAL 1990-2013 “The funeral of Cathedral has been a long but gratifying process. Deciding to end the band wasn’t an easy decision to make but we knew deep down in our hearts that it was the right thing to do.” And lo, Lee Dorrian, mouthpiece of Cathedral for…
New CATHEDRAL track featured in this month’s Decibel Flexi Series
Decibel Magazine to feature CATHEDRAL on the cover of their May issue UK mainstays and international cult act CATHEDRAL, has released their first new recorded material in three years exclusively via Decibel Magazine’s subscriber-only Decibel Flexi Series. The song, Vengeance of the Blind Dead, can be heard in the flexi…
Cathedral – remastered edition of “Garden of Unearthly Delights” out in March
Metal Mind Productions is proud to announce the exclusive reissue of “Garden of Unearthly Delights”, the eighth studio album by the legendary doom metal band – Cathedral. Anyone who is even slightly familiar with the term “doom metal” must have heard about this group. Throughout the last 21 years, not…
CATHEDRAL: 2CD live album “Anniversary” to be released by Metal Blade Records in North America
CATHEDRAL: 2CD live album “Anniversary” to be released by Metal Blade Records in North America Final studio album, The Last Spire, and one final live show in the works “The best doom metal band of the past two decades.” Albert Mudrian – Decibel Magazine/Choosing Death In conjunction with Rise Above…
Jalometalli 2011 – Oulu Finland
Here we are again… The mighty Jalometalli Open Air Metal festival strikes back once again with a killer line-up to maintain its metallic lofty status on the Finnish festival map. The festival is known for relying on an old school metal approach offering traditional metal to extreme metal. The festival…
CATHEDRAL To Record One Final Studio Album
According to The Quietus, seminal U.K. doom metal act CATHEDRAL will play its last-ever show on December 3 at the London Kentish Town Forum. Support will be provided by kindred spirits GRAND MAGUS, COMUS, and GENTLEMAN’S PISTOLS. The band will record one final studio album entitled “The Last Spire”, to…
CATHEDRAL Announce Last Ever Show
British doom legends CATHEDRAL have announced they will play their last ever show at the HMV Forum in London, England on Saturday, December 3rd. In an explanatory statement, vocalist and founding member Lee Dorian says: “Well we’ve been doing this for over 21 years now and I think it’s…
Legendary UK doom metallers CATHEDRAL call it quits
Their statement reads as follows: After a twenty-one year career, Cathedral announce their forthcoming retirement from the scene. The band will make their exit from the live arena at the end of this year and plan to record one final studio album to be released in 2012. According to vocalist…
CATHEDRAL CELEBRATE 20 YEARS WITH ORIGINAL LINE UP
The year 2010 marks the Twentieth Anniversary of Cathedral and in order to commemorate the occasion the band will perform a one-off show on December 3rd 2010 at the O2 Academy in Islington, North London. For one night only Cathedral will be performing two sets, including the entirety of their…
Hammerfest – Pontins Holiday Village, Prestatyn, Wales
Pontins Holiday Village, Prestatyn, Wales 24th-25th April 2009 All pics and review by HannTu