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    And now here's something you'll REALLY like!

    Apologies to Rocky, The Flying Squirrel.



    Cathedral's The Guessing Game.

    I saw this in the record store yesterday, and had no clue what it was all about, so I took it over to the scanner, & this is what I read.

    Cathedral's ninth studio album, their first since 2005's The Garden of Unearthly Delights, is a double disc, and it features some of the most psychedelic, progressive material in the band's entire catalog. Originally formed out of vocalist Lee Dorrian's distaste for the burgeoning death metal sound of his previous band, grindcore pioneers/stalwarts Napalm Death, Cathedral sounded like a pure throwback to the doom of the early '70s on their first few releases, but over the course of their long career, their albums have displayed rock & roll swagger and lysergic experimentation. The Guessing Game is in many ways a magnum opus, offering examples of everything Cathedral does well. "Casket Chasers" is a roaring stoner metal anthem worthy of modern doomsters like Down or any of Scott "Wino" Weinrich's bands, while the eight-minute "Funeral of Dreams" is a multifaceted, retro-psychedelic excursion reminiscent of Uriah Heep. "Requiem for the Voiceless" is pure, creeping Sabbathian horror, while "Cats, Incense, Candles & Wine" shifts from acoustic strumming to a jazz-funk groove. Retro instrumentation (flutes and Mellotron in particular) and production techniques abound. This album lives up to its title in spades; it's impossible to predict, listening to one song, what the next one will sound like, except for the general surety that it'll sound like it could have been recorded (on tape, not into a hard drive) anytime between 1969 and today.


    4.5 stars, and deservedly so.

    AWEsome.

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    sounds promising FP - what year did this come out?
    Repost this on your wall if you love Jesus.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 3LB
    sounds promising FP - what year did this come out?
    2010. New release.

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    Yeah, uh huh.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Troy
    Yeah, uh huh.
    Man, I feel like sending you a copy plus a few gin & tonics so you can review it, Troy-style.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Finch Platte
    Man, I feel like sending you a copy plus a few gin & tonics so you can review it, Troy-style.
    Bombay Saphire, please, though I recall it not mattering after the first 3 . . .

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    Quote Originally Posted by Troy
    Bombay Saphire, please, though I recall it not mattering after the first 3 . . .
    Ok, I'll buy the 4th on.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Finch Platte
    Ok, I'll buy the 4th on.
    Those will just end up on the sidewalk later . .

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    Quote Originally Posted by Troy
    Those will just end up on the sidewalk later . .
    just remember not to wear your new Vans out that night...I wished I hadn't first hand knowledge of why not

    Repost this on your wall if you love Jesus.

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