Cathedral

I was thrilled to bits because they're one of the first bands They're probably the doom band that I like the most outside of, say, Black Sabbath and Candlemas.

Sorry, Cathedral.

And it sort of...

It took me back to being an 18, 19-year-old.

It was on the back end of the Ancient Dreams tour.

It didn't have Johan Lundqvist on it because he was only on the first album at that point as a guest vocalist.

Either way, it was still an amazing gig because it was Candlemas Cathedral, I think it was saying Vitus and another sort of extreme band, which I can't remember.

I keep thinking it was something like...

so you know anyone that hasn't heard it they're not a band where i'm particularly familiar with like all of their catalog but that one is a real highlight it's one that i just keep going back to so you know i

know some of their their real earlier stuff was very influential in uh um in the formation of bands like Cathedral and that whole Doom resurgence thing that happened.

Right.

Cathedral, Hail Them, Sorcerers was quite a big...

Yeah, I mean, I have dipped into the catalogue and I've liked what I've heard, but that's the one that's really stuck with me.

The production is immense.

They had picked up on tours already.

Good young band pays homage to their doom elders, such as Canamass, Cathedral, Pentagram, Trouble, Witchfinder General, and more.

And, yeah, they'll be playing Mojave Experience with Label Maid's Death Chant.

And, you know, seeing them at least probably a handful of times as well in shows here in Vegas.

So take a listen to our third selection here.

This is Cathedral with Ride.

Rise through the ashes of stagnation Ritual warriors of their nation

Okay, so this is from the Ethereal Mirror, July 6, 1993, out in the U.S. And the category here is this little fun little time when these little labels grew up a little bit and signed distribution deals with the big labels.

So what we have here is Earache getting in bed with Sony.

And so it was really cool seeing these pretty inaccessible underground bands have proper, you know, they're essentially become, quote unquote, major label bands.

So Cathedral was the favorite one.

But Carcass as well with Heartwork, which was fairly accessible for Carcass.

...

in Bergen, and, uh, we have the backstage as, you know, Solstafir and, uh, Devil's Plot, and Cathedral, and there's bands hanging there.

Uh, I think, uh, Sai Torture our guitar player, he came back to our dressing room when I was sitting, and he was having all this nice catering stuff, snacks and beers, and like, "Hey man, where'd you get that?" Asked him.

"No, it's over there." "Okay, great."

And I remember I was just sort of trying to find, basically trying to find bands that sounded a bit like Black Sabbath.

And somewhere along the line I found Cathedral.

Yeah.

And somewhere along the line...

After that, around the time I think Rise Above had started, I found the first Electric Wizard album.

Okay.

What Cathedral album did you find first?

The very first thing I found was the Static Magic EP.

We were at Rise Above Records in London.

This is the record store of Lee Dorian from Napalm Death and Cathedral and whatnot.

And we were in there and Quentin Tarantino walked in.

And Yanni was like, oh, hey, that guy is Quentin Tarantino.

Yeah.

Right? Uh, play the, play, like, the first Cathedral record.

Yeah, dude.

Just make [laughs] make a Castle Rat fan sit down and listen to Forest of Equilibrium-

and laying it down so um he is a student of of of bass and uh so for that reason i you know i'm i'm optimistic at least very least from a audio and live performance sound perspective he can absolutely deliver the goods

He auditioned for and was not chosen for the band Cathedral in 1995 or something like that.

So if you lost out to Brian Dixon for a bass slot, this was a while back.

Hopefully he's improved.

Mm-hmm.

So he teams up with the roadie, says, "Come on, roadie, let's do something else." They bonded over their love of Black Sabbath, Candlemass, Pentagram, Trouble, all these bands we've just been talking about, and said, "We're gonna create our own version of a doom band." And they do, and they call it Cathedral.

And they come out-

Good name.

They called it quits after 21 years.

He said, "That's enough time on the road with doing that," and he was done.

So I'm gonna play some Cathedral.

This is a really cool band.