Audio CD review:
Cathedral - The Garden of Unearthly Delights

Cathedral - The Garden of Unearthly Delights

Band: Cathedral Title: The Garden of Unearthly Delights Rating: Release Date: 24 January, 2006 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Dearth AD 2005 2: Tree Of Life and Death 3: North Berwick Witch Trials 4: Upon Azrael's Wings 5: Corpsecycle 6: Fields Of Zagara 7: Oro The Manslayer 8: Beneath A Funeral Sun 9: The Garden 10: Proga ~ Europa

Customer Reviews Great! I picked up Ethereal Mirror by accident, was surprised by the doom-y grooves, got their debut, liked that a lot also and then sort of drifted off to other types of music later after hearing the Carnival Bizzare. Good stuff! I'll certainly be sad to see this band go; honestly they're the only surviving band still holding any interest for me after starting to listen to metal in my teens. But what a swansong this is! The band's a settin and a rockin'. . the guitars are heavy as anything and the production work is quite, quite good. You can sense the band having a good time with their songs. I don't really hear any of the 'tough guy' attitude that one reviewer inferred. Just good music. And the closing number: who was the last band doing something akin to that. . Rush maybe? I personally really liked their last experiment; I like jazz and also happened to hear the last song after seeing Transformers in the theatre, so I'm a little biased maybe (try it, trust me!) But this album is so worth getting--like Deicide's debut, you can listen to the whole thing and continue to be thoroughly entertained all through. Good work lads!. HASH(0xa7c418) "The Garden" also has its moments and strives to be different, but at 27 minutes long, it is just too long and sounds like an experiment gone wrong. Some good rocking moments here and there (especially on "North Berwick Witch Trials" and "Oro the Manslayer"), but other than that Cathedral's style of Sabbath-isms combined with a sort of Southern Hard Rock groove can easily grow tired. Listening to some parts of this record reminded me of the funny tough-guy attitude brought by bands like Crowbar, which does not surprise considering who the producer is here. Cathedral rocks hard, but not in a way to maintain someone's interest for more than 5 minutes. . Phuck Me Runnin Yea thats it phuckin buy it!. Holy mother of god is this album heavy the bass is more brutal than the guitar and the guitar is very very brutal. . You can see a complete list of all Cathedral discography, or go back to the Cathedral tabs