Garden Of Unearthly Delights - Cathedral

The strange and hostile 'Garden of Unearthly Delights' seems almost like a conscious contrast to the more accessible doom rock style of Cathedral's previous album 'The VIIth Coming,' and while it's certainly much less instantly accessible, it's musically and stylistically the superior of the two, while also highly distinctive within the band's discography. The sound is still heavily distorted stoner rock, with some songs employing new and unusual guitar effects, but this is the band's heaviest and most psychedelic album since 'Endtyme.' 'Upon Azrael's Wings' is based on a riff derivative of Metallica's 'Fight Fire With Fire' before moving into an atmospheric ...  Read the complete review