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Cathedral - Forest Of Equilibrium lp

Lee Dorrian is one of my top favorite cult musicians. Firstly for his stint in Napalm Death (Scum side B - Mentally Murdered), but then for his wonderfully hammed up Cathedral. I mean this music is ridiculous but kind of awesome too. Take some Trouble, some Celtic Frost, some Candlemass… for some reason I feel like it should have been in the scenes in the Lord of the Rings movies that take place in Rohan. Not like totally evil Mordorian black metal (Gorgoroth, Burzum, other Tolkien bands), but like a more sinister man-evil. I believe Scott Carlson of Repulsion was doing time in the band just after this point too which kind of makes it the ultimate grindcore dream band that never was. Instead you get like 40 minutes of Gothic Sludge that got them a contract with Sony or Columbia (???) for a hot minute. Obviously there was no way this could have been turned into commercially viable music, but it was the early 90s, and everyone was doing stupid shit. I’m sure the people at the label thought they were gonna get another Soundgarden or I dunno… maybe Type O Negative, but really they just got pure doomy crunch.

The original vinyl of this comes in a sweet gatefold sleeve, unfortunately it’s got the stock Cathedral artwork which I hate. It looks like some weird stained glass window, but seriously, you’re gonna want the tasty riffs on here.

Happy Metal Columbus Day folks.