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THE GUESSING GAMECATHEDRALNuclear Blast Records CDThe title of new release of British Doom monolith is certainly very well chosen, as this album will leave many of you guessing various things; but probably the most important question of all is – why did Cathedral chose to publish double album? I am not the one to throw it away beacuse of its length, but the way I see it, „The guessing game" would be way better if the guys honed the best ideas to perfection and get one killer album as the result, but nevertheless, what we got here is not bad either, but let us go from the beginning... After their previous „The garden of unearthly delights“ which was true return to Doomy form in my books, Cathderal decided to venture a bit, throwing some psychodelic and 70’s progressive influences into the mixture alongside their classic ultra heavy riffing (but truth be told, they have always carried some seventies’ feel), gaining one very varied album. That is not the problem here, what’s wrong is that those parts sometimes feel disjointed and out of place, making the listening experience of 85 minutes sometimes hard. One will find moments of pure bliss followed by utterly forgettable lines during the course of „The guessing game“; I must notice that it is mostly obvious on the first disc and tracks like "Funeral of dreams" or "Painting in the dark" where you will hear some sloppy arrangements - and not "sloppy" in a good way like Autopsy, but rather not worked out very well. But on the other hand, skip over to second disk and number "The running man" and you will witness the experiment gone well, song sounds like jam session between King Crimson and Black Sabbath (but aren’t Cathedral Sabbath for the nineties?) and works out exceptionally well. Hunters for more traditional sound are well advised to hear „Edwige’s eyes“ and „Casket chasers“, which are in standard Cathedral vein and feature that familiar crushing riffage coupled by inimitable Lee’s vox. „The guessing game" is closed by „Journeys into jade“, and the lyrics are about the career of Cathedral and the questions about the uncertain future, and the best line is probably „will our vinyl be rare and collectable, will we be the in thing?”. Of course they will, but this album is not the pinnacle of their story by far – it is far from bad but it could have been better. The news that Cathedral wil play in Serbia in July just came in and make me very happy, so let’s finish this off in happy tone, shall we? Nevermind what I have said above, you WILL check this out, it is Cathedral, goddamit! And one can find some good stuff on here, and that is what matters the most. Slobodan Trifunović (8) |
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