Cathedral calls it quits

Cathedral is one of the bands I have seen the most times in my gigging days over the last 17-18 years maybe about 7-8 times I've lost count. The Guessing Game was a huge disappointment to me unfortunately but I loved Garden of Unearthly Delights. It's a shame I never saw their recent last shows it would have been good but I must try an attend the final one if possible. I hope the final studio album is more to my liking as well but I get the feeling it might not be but I live in hope. They were very fun to watch live as well with Lee acting it up as the madman from hell all the time.
 
Disappointing, but it's been obvious for a while that Lee is much more interested in running his label than actually being in a band.
 
We played with Cathedral 5-6 years ago, did a show with them, SYL, and Samael way back when. It was funny, Cathedral played and were doing their thing and all was cool, then they broke out a song that was about 10:00 long, at something literally like 60bpm. the crowd scattered like rats when they broke that one out, haha.....
 
This just makes their appearance at this year's Maryland DeathFest all the more special. They're headlining the first date of that festival. Can't fucking wait. Hope they pull out all the stops!
 
Funny Cathedral story...

I remember seeing them on the ill fated tour with Trouble in the mid 90's. Trouble left the tour and I was left with tickets to see this band, which...meh!

So, theyre playing and this dude is standing up front, beer in hand, trying to bang his head but he is supremely wasted and vertically challenged, damn near falling for about 15 minutes straight. He wanders off somewhere... I head to the bathroom about 10 minutes later, and here is said drunken dude, in the bathroom banging his head in between blowing chunks at the urinal, puke all over the front of him, beer still in hand. It was quite an exciting time for that boy, I would guess. He refused to stop banging his head or drinking until, when nothing else could go wrong, he fell face first into the urinal, hits the floor, and just starts moaning this sad drunken moan while people step around him.

It was truly horrifyingly funny
 
9 year bump....

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