CATHEDRAL - The Last Spire

Kategorie: CD-Reviews | Genre: Doom Metal | Heft: Jahrgang 2013, eclipsed Nr. 150 / 5-2013 | VÖ-Jahr: 2013 | Wertung: 7/10 | Label: Rise Above | Autor: CA


What do you leave behind for posterity when you have long since determined that the big, fat end is coming? A monument! A monolith for eternity! Hewn from the hardest, deepest black stone. Now it's finally time. Lee Dorian announces the end of his band and buries them himself. With an album that once again reviews the "23 Years of Doom'n'Sludge-Rock". Almost symptomatic for "The Last Spire" the collective starts with "Entrance To Hell". Once you have passed this gate, there is no turning back and you have to face the "Pallbearer" in all his twelve-minute splendour. Riffs throttled almost to standstill, which don't make it easy for the rhythm fraction to keep the beat, because it hardly goes slower, and an atmosphere, which seems to come directly from hell, but that's where we are - Cathedral doesn't only take it slow, but also keep this slow-motion consistency tortuously enjoyable. And then there are ovations like "Cathedral Of The Damned", "The Last Laugh" and "Infestation Of Grey Death".

Top track: This Body, Thy Tomb

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