Cathedral - The Ethereal Mirror
| Release date: | 1993 |
| Style: | Doom metal, Stoner metal |
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Disc I
01. Violet Vortex
02. Ride
03. Enter The Worms
04. Midnight Mountain
05. Fountain Of Innocence
06. Grim Luxuria
07. Jaded Entity
08. Ashes You Leave
09. Phantasmagoria
10. Imprisoned In Flesh
11. Sky Lifter [instrumental version] [Japanese bonus]
12. A Funeral Request [1993 version] [Japanese bonus]
Disc II [2009 re-release bonus]
01. Hypnos 164
02. Cosmic Funeral
03. The Voyage Of The Homeless Sapien
+ "Ethereal Reflections", a 40-minute brand new documentary with key original band members, filmed in Coventry in 2009
1 - Musical Progression
2 - A Major Deal
3 - Manor Studio
4 - The Artwork
5 - Tension Rising
6 - Fashion Sense
7 - Disco Doom
8 - Exit Adam
9 - Where Are You Now?
10 - Reflections
01. Violet Vortex
02. Ride
03. Enter The Worms
04. Midnight Mountain
05. Fountain Of Innocence
06. Grim Luxuria
07. Jaded Entity
08. Ashes You Leave
09. Phantasmagoria
10. Imprisoned In Flesh
11. Sky Lifter [instrumental version] [Japanese bonus]
12. A Funeral Request [1993 version] [Japanese bonus]
Disc II [2009 re-release bonus]
01. Hypnos 164
02. Cosmic Funeral
03. The Voyage Of The Homeless Sapien
+ "Ethereal Reflections", a 40-minute brand new documentary with key original band members, filmed in Coventry in 2009
1 - Musical Progression
2 - A Major Deal
3 - Manor Studio
4 - The Artwork
5 - Tension Rising
6 - Fashion Sense
7 - Disco Doom
8 - Exit Adam
9 - Where Are You Now?
10 - Reflections
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Rating: 9.2 |
Cathedral's second release contains both Stoner rock and Doom metal, experimenting with swinging passages and psychedelic rock, blues-rock painted riffs and darker Black Sabbath and Candlemass-type of doomy riffs of loss and ruin. Creating a pretty unique experience, especially for its time and era, Cathedral sets the sound for the releases to come, and "The Ethereal Mirror" will later prove to be a very influential release for modern doom metal of the 90's. Read more ›› |
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| Erik M. Posts: 3104  |
The style of this album isn't appealing to me at all. I expected something great like the debut, but that definitely isn't the case. 
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| musicalkaratekid Posts: 1506 |
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| Bad English Tage Westerlund Posts: 62017  |
Written by Erik M. on 09.11.2013 at 16:34 IMO this is best, depute was more like ''real stoner doom'' here we have more stoner rock orientation, still in doom family Only one song stands out Midnight Mountain, Fountain Of Innocents intro riffs are good
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| ScreamingSteelUS Editor-in-Chief Admin Posts: 5924  |
Weirdly enough, this gave me Celtic Frost vibes. I guess it's a bit crunchier and more aggressively toneless than the norm for Cathedral, on the one hand faster and heavier than Forest Of Equilibrium and on the other not quite as efficient and catchy as The Carnival Bizarre. "Midnight Mountain" is really funky. Lots of good riffs scattered about.
---- "Earth is small and I hate it" - Lum Invader I'm the Agent of Steel.
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| Redel Moderator Posts: 2250  |
I never managed to connect with any of their albums in total to be honest, probably mostly too weird for my liking. There is a handful of songs though which I apparently did find worth copying to my memory, mostly from their earlier albums. From the album at hand, that would definitely relate to Fountain Of Innocence, which is probably the one song that defines this band for me. Drop the name Cathedral, my mind would immediately play that catchy riff. Other point that defines the band for me is their beautiful cover arts.
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