CATHEDRAL

Release Year: 2013
Artist Origin: ENG
Style: heavy mournful esoteric doom metal

the neatly crafted farewell album of British doom metal's greats in a way summarizes their entire spectacular career - carrying an emotional weight that is not just about existential struggle but also about finality and closure, the mournful, apocalyptic potential basically lurks in the shadow, but hits hard once you give lengthy evolving tracks a decent attention; it is sort of esoteric face of Cathedral exposed, familiar from their more spooky, dirgy, hypnotizing episodes of the past achievements, maintaining a raspy distinct voice of Lee Dorian, which in current context gain an extra surreal dimension, while guitar sound is so oppressing it could easily fit any modern sludge record!; British slipcase edition with booklet that folds out into a poster is limited to the first pressing only