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[ledmag]

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CATHEDRAL

Statik Majik / Soul Sacrifice Reissue

1999
Earache
MOSH234
Statik Majik EP
Production Info
Produced and Mixed by Gary Jennings, Lee Dorrian and Paul Johnson
Recorded at Rhythm Studios (16-23 Aug. 1993).
Mixed at Rhythm Studios (10-14 Jan 1994).
Sleeve Concept: L. Dorrian
Front Cover Art: Dave Patchett
Photo: Jason Tilley
Label Art: Leilah Wendell
Layout: BOO
"Midnight Mountain"
Produced and Mixed by David Bianco
Recorded And Mixed at Manor Studios, Oxford, England
Engineered by Shaun DeFeo
Lineup:
On "Cosmic Funeral", "Hypnos 164" and "The Voyage Of The Homeless Sapien"
Lee Dorrian - Vocals, Mellotron, Tambourine, Chicken Shaker, Music Stand, Chair Leg
Gary Jennings - Guitar, Bass Guitar, Mellotron, Keyboards, Chicken Shaker, Guiro
Adam Lehan - Guitars, Guitar Stand
Mark Ramsey Wharton - Drums, Flute, Bodhran, Tambourine, Xylophone
Russell Haswell - Chants of Chod, Vacuum Cleaner and ???
On "Midnight Mountain"
Lee Dorrian - Vocals
Gary Jennings - Guitar, Acoustic Guitars, Bass Guitar
Adam Lehan - Guitar, Acoustic Guitars
Mark Ramsey Wharton - Drums
Songs:
Midnight Mountain (G. Jennings/L. Dorrian)
Hypnos 164 (G. Jennings/L. Dorrian)
Cosmic Funeral (G. Jennings/L. Dorrian)
The Voyage Of The Homeless Sap
Soul Sacrifice EP
Production Info:
Produced by Cathedral
Recorded by Paul Johnson at Rhythm Studios, January 14th-17th, 1992
Mixed by Lee Dorrian, Gary Jennings, Adam Lehan and Paul Johnson
Front Cover Artwork: Dave Patchett
Photography: Jason Tilley
Lineup:
Lee Dorrian - Vocals
Gary Jennings - Guitars, Tambourine
Adam Lehan - Guitars
Mark Griffiths - Bass Guitar
Mark Ramsay Wharton - Drums, Hammond
Songs:
Soul Sacrifice (Music: G. Jennings Lyrics: M.Griffiths)
Autumn Twilight (Music: M. Griffiths, G. Jennings Lyrics: M. Griffiths)
Frozen Rapture (Music: A. Lehan Lyrics: L. Dorrian)
Golden Blood (Flooding) (Music: G. Jennings Lyrics: L. Dorrian)
Reviews:
Painkiller's review.




Lyrics:
Midnight Mountain
Sliding down the mountain, as dusk passes to day.
The antidote of elation, now lifeless masses wake.
Jaws of suxiety open, the luring vampire of agility,
a fatal invitation, sight hazing from me.
Oh midnight mountain, I require, inner relocation,
back to pinnacles high.
Drowning in empty faces, sinking in banal,
I crave the isolation of eventide when perception climbs,
I just need the injection, a dose to boost my flight,
a sonic blast of moonlight, nucleus ignites.
Oh midnight mountain, now I'm revived,
stimulus transcending, back to pinnacles high,
Screaming at doleful skies, absorbing all my sighs,
responding to my cries,
downcast a thunder of reprise,
won't let the next sunrise, signal my landslide,
from ecstatic highs, I'm on top of their demise.
Hypnos 164
Paralyzed Sunset, Blind Eyes To The Dawn
Form Magic Wings - Drift Through Black Skies
Crystal Voyager Eternal In Peace
Sends Dreams To Humans - Laid To Rest In Weary Sleep
Superior Lifeform With Velvet Textured Tongue
Licks My Conscience - Feel The Anger And Pain!!!!
Pleasure Drips Forth From Lovely Blue Eyes
Ride Upon Lakes Of External Animal Love!
Sleeping Wisdom, Eternal Night
Hypnos Kingdom - Darkness Shining Bright
Beautiful Dreamer - Beast Of Daylight
Twilight Magician Gave You Astral Sight
Bright Red Carpet Beyond The Haunting Eye
Open The Third One Fly Summer Chylde!!!!
Templar Cadaver, Sons Long After Will
Roll A Monster Boulder Up The Eternal Hill
Transformation, Perplexed Delight
Thee Man Becomes A Lion With Seething Might
Cleansing Dream God, Has Put Wrong To Right
Elegant Creature Eats The Human Race!
Tortured Spirits Of The Animal Kingdom
Haunt Evil Man In Premonition
Gracious Children Of Earthly Devotion
Hibernate In Hypnos-Salvation
(Saviours Dream)
Caverns Of Your Mind Explode
The Marble Staircase Now Unfolds
Come Inside A Better Life
Where Animals Rule The Roost
(Awake To The Question...)
Nature Bleeds In The Hands Of Human
Must The Only Good One - Be A Dead One???
Cosmic Funeral
Winged Disciples Of The Nocturn Dream
Descend Upon The Fortress Of The Tyrants Creed
In Their Search For Midas, How Many More Must Bleed?
Father Supernature - Grant The Final Deed, Please Yeah
Children Screaming Velvet Sorrow
In Tombstone Rulers Burning Land
Love Shall Send Them To The Gallows
Retribution Is At Hand
Immortal Rotation In A Wordless Hearse
Cosmic Funeral, Of Mothers Afterbirth
Lord Release The Dragons From The Pall Bearing Sky
Our Sorrow Is Navigation, To Breathe Their Hate Goodbye - Yeah!
Through A Screen Of Crimson Shadows
Weeping Angel Flaps His Wings
Void Of Sin, Engulfs And Swallows
Tragic Dust Of Futile Man
C'Mon Now, Oh Yeah! ! !
Karma Has Brought You Our Way
And Now We're Tolling Your Bell
Purple Unicorns Will Guide Me
To Fleets Of Lost Angels
Ooh Disco Supernova Do The Martian Bossanova
Can Ya Dig It?
Let's Groove - Sonic Muthafucka!!!!
Demons Inside We
Have Burned You Now We've Expelled
They Chased You Down Satan's Highway
We Bid You Found Farewell
The Voyage of the Homeless Sapien
(I. Velvet Forest Of Enchantment)
Violet Dawn, Misty Mourn
Black Tree Upon The Velvet Lawn
Summer Faces - Poisoned Flowers Thorns
Blackbird Sings A Jaded Requiem
Engine Storm, Earth Reborn
Caterpillar Never Settling Down
Concrete Cancer In Your Empty Town
Brain - Ticket Brought Me To...Hallow Ground
(II. Doomed Man)
I Am Society, The Ghoul Of All Mankind
I'll Crawl All Over You & Numb You Deep Inside
I'll Eat Your Silver Cross, Behind It You Can't Hide
Stone Will Become Of You, Withered Shall Be Your Pride
Angels I've Chased Away, Now Demons Pull Your Mind
Closer Toward Your Prize Of The Hell In Which I Entice
In My Infernal World All Wealth You've Sacrificed
The Clay Has Formed - It's Too Late To Meditate & Exorcise...
(III. Along The Tranquil Riverbanks)
Blind Reality I've Seen And Cast Away
I Am A Child From The Forest Of Dismay
Ancient Deities Are Screaming Out My Name
From The Splendour Of The Inland Waterways
(IV. Drifting Through Neptune's Veins)
(*)
Golden Horses Pull My Chariot
Black Angels On The Viaduct
(**Shattered From Refrain)
On The Hill The Dark Horse Stands, Softly Calling You
Underneath The Blood Red Moon, Frost And Fire Gloom
Usurper Of Lost Innocence, Magic, Iron & Stone
I'm The King Of The Dead, With One Foot In Hell
Awaiting To Greet The "Red Turd Upon The Horse Shouting Tally Ho!"
(***Chilled Again...)
Here We Come Entranced By The Mellow
Hey! Ho! It's The Man With The Silver Pipe!!!!
(****Shattered Again!)
Headblaster Of Reality, Evil Priest From Hell
Unveils Endless Solitude With Pink Misery Snow
After And Forever In Eternal Loch Ness
Clouds Of Dirty FX Sex Drive Cemetery
Wally's Waltz
(*****Templars Interlude)
"We Are Not The Living, We Are The Dead, We Offer What You've Given"
Not The "Majestic Elegance Of The Gracious Swan..........."
~ ~' ~
(V. Rocket Launch Wizard)
Interrupted By A Needy Stop At The Purple Ale House
.... The Wizard Returns! $A%$(~* ! ! ! ! ! ! !
(VI. The Drifters Theme)
Drift Away, Forget The Chores Of The Day
And Why Not Forget Yourself - Why Not Forget Your Name?
The Law Of The Land Is Great
- Numb and Blind Men, They Dictate Hate !?!?
Wait!
Under The Sun, The Children Of The Moon
For The Masses They Pray, Beside The Crystal Lake
The Squawk Of The Gull Awakes Us To Man's Fate
Nature And Smoking Be Our Mate.....
(VII. Lands End)
Watching Me As I Glare Out At Seas
Creator Of All Deceit
The Sand Demon
Offers Me A Garish Sweet
(VIII. Stone Man Finale)
a) Moonlight & Manor Reprise - "Chant Of The Nocturndoz"
b) Lavatory Logic
Soul Sacrifice
Tortured self-worth,
Abstracts of wrath,
Released from attachment
A Human reaction
Muted, unable to realize
Images of your designs
Soul sacrifice a blessing to me
Carve me from your memory ooh!
Deep impressions my depths,
Worthless, As each breath,
Worlds within half truths,
My fears of losing you
I'll pour scorn from the lowest place,
Colour fades from your face,
Annihilation-acceptance,
Paradox of self existence
Soul sacrifice
Ooh the pain we've been through
Soul sacrifice
I've sacrificed my soul for you
Autumn Twilight
I got those midnight circles
And I pray deceived
Ooh how I despise you (memories)
Tongue tasting moonlight
A tribute to my pain
We could last for never (another game?)
Here in autumn twilight
Morphia cursed delight
I got those midnight circles
I drawn the hanged man
Movin' towards Winter (yes I am)
Eyes seek inner spaces
Guardians of spheres
A touch of dementia's (fears)
Here in autumn twilight
Morphia cursed delight
And the sun shall never rise again
No more visions to be gained
Stricken mother of failings
Led into a shallow grave
Here I am now
So far away - hey
Internal reflections
Another maze

Here I stay now
Caught between
Lives that you form
And the lives I've been
Frozen Rapture
You gave to me
Affection I couldn't see
It felt like a rope
Tightening on me
Frozen rapture
Your warmth I couldn't trace
Echoed laughter
Bring sadness to my face
Hereinafter
Plagued by my own embrace
In my frailty
Your splendour did penetrate
Onto the cold
Floors of responsiveness
Frozen rapture
Your warmth I couldn't trace
Echoed laughter
Bring sadness to my face
Plagued by my own embrace
Buried within walls
Of excommunication
Torch light never shines
Upon my isolation
Golden Blood (Flooding)
Crystal towers
I've yearned to explore
Shatter as I enter their doors,
Splinters sink into tender parts of me
Devouring my inmost quality
Floating through a whimsical breeze
To the pitfalls of discoveries
Assassin of visual fallacy
Dispel aspiration, uncover travesty,
Fading convictions losing clarity
Descending to depths of insobriety
Golden blood flooding from me
Into eternal cynical streams
Dismayed by the curse of analogy
In theatrical and reality
Charcoaled spirit the stranger in me
Dissolved in timeless obstinacy
Spectacle of severity
Chasing myself away from me
Blemished wings of vibrancy
Elevate this bane from me.

 

[ZANEX]

This is great ledmag. I have the Soul Sacrifice E.P. but never knew all the lyrics until know. Also, I have the Ethereal Mirror, The Carnival Bizarre, and Forests of Equilibrium on cassette. I had Supernatural Birth Machine on C.D. but didn't like it as much as the others so I traded it for cash or another C.D. Lee Dorian use t sing for Napalm Death didn't he? I know Cathedral have other albums out, they just been hard to find.

 

[ledmag]

Yes, Lee was the singer fro napalm death. And your right, their stuff is very hard to find. You should hang onto what you have.

I ahev all the EP's and All their full lengths. And I have ta NIB tribute single, Biohazard is the main band on it, doing After Forever, but Cathedral do Wheeles of Confusion and Saint Vitus(they also do shockwave and Solitude, its on a very old tribute cd....maybe Lords of Destruction. I ordered it, its on its way. They have 6 ep's, and a demo. As I said I have them all.

And your right Supernatural Birthmachine is not as good as the rest, Its just too stoner. The newest cd is ENDTYME.Its back to teh roots, very doomy.

SO how do you like the foresrt of equalibrium? It and th edemo(In Memmorium) are some of the slowest and grittiest(but still very good) doom alive.

I like the ethereal mirror very much, it has the perfect balance of stoner and doom songs on it.

You should get the STATIC MAJIK/SOUL SACRIFICE re-issue, both ep's on one cd(i have that too).

Im glad you like the lyrics, ill post more of their songs later. I love Cathedral, in my top 5.

 

[Unregistered]

Yeah ledmag, your tops kiddo...You would like the MELVINS AS WELL
Just want to say I have all the CATHERDAL cd's....I like the witchfinder general stuff the best...

Thak_you for the lyrics I didn't know they existed!!!


From the early days of Black Sabbath to the modern-day Death/Doom-Metal of My Dying Bride - A complete historical overview of our beloved genre.


Early doom bands of the seventies...
Most people agree that Black Sabbath is amongst the most influential bands for all heavy metal in general, and Doom-Metal is no exception. Their early albums 'Black Sabbath', 'Paranoid', 'Master Of Reality', 'Vol. 4', 'Sabbath Bloody Sabbath', and 'Sabotage' are all without doubt, masterpieces, and without them Doom-Metal (or even metal in general) would not exist at all.

Whilst Black Sabbath were definitely well ahead of their time, and as such one of a kind, they certainly weren't without their contemporaries (Pentagram, Blue Cheer, Black Widow). Some of the earliest prototypes of Doom-Metal were in fact songs of the late sixties and early seventies that, whilst not wholly doomy, contained countless great riffs that came to shape the sound of Doom-Metal in later years. Such songs include Iron Butterfly's 'Inna Gadda Da Vida'.

One of Black Sabbath's main contemporaries - Pentagram - can be counted as one of the earliest Doom bands around, often intertwining with the band Bedemon one could perhaps best label their style of music as "Proto Doom". Black Sabbath has a huge impact on their sound but they focused more on the doomy side of this style. Thus creating some of the first ever Doom-metal records!


The eighties...
The 1980s brought with them the first bona fide Doom-Metal acts. This was the era in which bands such as Def Leppard, Warrant, and Bon Jovi came to the foregrounds and professed to be "heavy metal", and where thrash/speed and death metal bands ruled the metal scene.

The press also applied the term "heavy metal" in a nasty pigeonholing manner to any band that wore tight spandex and big hair. Whilst there are so many bands during that time that were truly deserving to fly under the banner of Doom-Metal, they were vastly outnumbered by these Glam-metal acts. The eighties were also known for the end period of the NWOBHM, another semi-fast style of metal. So in an era where speed was the prominent factor in extreme music, Doom-Metal acts where greatly outnumbered, but this is the era where Doom-metal was mostly developed and created a name for itself.

One 80s band that made Doom big was Trouble. Originally from Chicago, this band got together in 1979 but gained popularity from 1984 onwards. Trouble's music stands for slow, dragging heavy metal, clearly influenced by Black Sabbath. Due to Christian beliefs of the band and its effect on their lyrics the band initially fell under the label White-metal.

Saint Vitus, another early doom-oriented band, had perhaps the biggest influence on the Doom-metal landscape (together with Candlemass). Their early work was on SST (Greg Ginn from Black Flag's label) and was mostly fronted by Wino who gained more fame later with semi-doom majors The Obsessed. Wino became one of the most legendary figures of Doom-metal in his own right. From his beginnings with The Obsessed, moving on to St. Vitus, and re-forming The Obsessed, he became one of the most prominent and influenctial figures within the Doom-metal scene. He now frequents the Stoner scene with his current band Spirit Caravan.

In 1986, Swedish band Candlemass released the album 'Epicus Doomicus Metallicus', a milestone in early Doom-Metal. Once called "the heaviest band in the world" they picked up where Black Sabbath left off in 1976. The material on 'Epicus Doomicus Metallicus' was in the same style as old Black Sabbath (with Ozzy) but with modern contemporary influences. Candlemass' best years were those with vocalist Messiah Marcolin, a man with an exceptionally clear, deep voice. For doom newbies the CD 'As It Is, As It Was: The Best Of Candlemass' (Music For Nations, 1994) gives a good overview of their works.

Another doom pioneer in the late eighties was Lee Dorrian's band Cathedral. When Lee left Napalm Death in 1989 nobody expected such a volte face. As opposed to Napalm Death's ultra-fast music Cathedral's first releases were ultraslow, super-heavy doom in its purest form. Check out the albums 'In Memorium' and 'Forest Of Equilibrium'. Cathedral's later works are more seventies-rock oriented and the doom atmosphere has slowly faded away.

One label that was very important to this first generation of Doom-metal, and was mainly active during the very end of the eigthies to the mid nineties, was the Hellhound Label. This label signed a great deal of Doom-metal acts whose sound later became known as the "hellhound sound", industriously forming a clear foundation for future Doom-metal acts to build upon. Bands like The Obsessed and Count Raven released many records through this label.


The nineties...
The early 90s heralded a change in the Doom-Metal landscape. With Death-metal having taken over the metal torch halfway through the eighties, Doom-Metal enjoyed a revival. New bands emerged that sought a mix between original Doom-Metal and Death-metal. Early pioneers like Winter with their release 'Into Darkness' in 1990 and Thergothon with their brilliant demo 'Fhragn-nagh Yog-Sothoth' in 1991 broke through the original boundaries of traditional Doom-Metal and formed the building blocks for modern day Doom-Metal. Lets also however not forget a band like diSEMBOWELMENT.

Bands like Winter, Thergothon and diSEMBOWELMENT could not gain the success later doom bands would have with this new style. Three bands from England, whom all shared the same label, Peaceville, propelled the Death/Doom genre to the level at which it stands today; Paradise Lost being the first with their release of 'Lost Paradise' in 1990 (which still had a strong death-metal influence). With 'Gothic' in 1991 they however almost single-handed set the standard for modern-day doom.

Fellow label mates My Dying Bride succeeded in opening the gates for countless new Doom-Metal bands. Their first official release on Peaceville, 'Symphonaire Infernus Et Spera Empyrium', in 1991 already showed this band was destined for greatness and with their second full length 'Turn Loose the Swans' in 1993 they set their status as the largest modern-day Doom-Metal band. Another influence on this new form of Doom-Metal was the third Peaceville band called Anathema. Despite being one of "the big three" they always remained the smallest and least influential.

Also worth mentioning is that at the beginning of the ninties, a band called Earth (no, not Black Sabbath with their orignal name) created some of the heaviest Sabbath influenced music ever. This band became a huge influence on so-called "Drone Doom", an extreme form of Doom-metal.

Nor can we overlook the rise of an odd child within the Doom family, Sludge Doom; very heavy, miserable sounding Doom-metal that perhaps lacks the mournfull and emotions of Doom but fills those with pure filth, discust and anger. Of course also attoning to the teaching of Black Sabbath.

Midway through the nineties the need for experimentation within the metal genre as a whole also touched the Doom-Metal genre. Bands like The 3rd and the Mortal created a more atmospheric type of doom with albums like Tears Laid in Earth' and were one of the first metal bands to have a fulltime female lead singer. Following in the wake of Thergothon, slower and more extreme acts than normal Death/Doom also started to emerge like Funeral, Skepticism and Esoteric. The experimentation "disease" lead to the many different types of Doom-Metal we know today. From the slow and emotionless sounds of Esoteric, Evoken and Skepticism to the Gothic/Doom-Metal hybrids like Theatre of Tragedy. And let's not forget that there is a whole host of new and old bands who still play the orignal style of Doom from the 80s.

Owing to this flurry of experimentation, the boundaries between genres faded and various great Doom-Metal giants moved away from the sound they helped create, giving the whole Doom-Metal genre a creative input of which we have not yet seen the last. The new millenium has already proven that by making 2001 one of the best years for heavy Doom since the early ninties. This indeed promises much for the future...

 

[ledmag]

thats very interesting..Thanks....

I have some Pentagram, Obssessed, Spirit Caravan, and My Dying Bride......

Pentagram, I only call half doom, since only half of what i have by them are doom.


I also have soem Black Widow..they are not even close to doom.more like cheap and cheesy 60's psych with a very large SATANIC twist..not very good musicians.actually, the only thing good i can hear in them would be the singer........