Description
Finally reissued, this legendary underground Doom Metal demo from 1990!
All vinyl editions come as 180gm double LP in gatefold sleeve. Also included is an eight page full-sized booklet with rare photo’s and detailed sleevenotes. Disc one of the LP is the the In Memoriam Demo (remastered) and disc two is raw and brutal live recordings from 1991.
Vinyl pressings:
x 100 clear. (mail order only) One per customer please.
x 200 solid white & black mixed (mail order only)
x 500 black
x 500 clear & black mixed
x 1000 purple (US edition)
CD set comes with extensive booklet, including many unseen photo’s and detailed sleevenotes. Audio contains the demo live recordings (same as the vinyl edition)but ALSO includes a bonus DVD featuring full live set from Groningen (NL), May 1st 1991.
As with a choice few truly great bands, the first self- financed cassette recording by Cathedral – made available in October 1990 – was a pioneering underground masterpiece in its own right; the sound of a young band exploring its newfound chemistry, finding confident variations on a flawless list of influences and cultivating a sound and style that would prove hugely inspirational throughout the 1990s and beyond, being a major influence on everyone from Electric Wizard through to Reverend Bizarre.
Where most demos are little more than a dry run for the first album, ‘In Memoriam’ still has its own distinct and important identity in the Cathedral canon. The debut LP that followed, ‘Forest Of Equilibrium’, has a sombre, devout, melodic and mystical grandeur all of its own – but ‘In Memoriam’ has a far murkier, earthier, more deathly intent.
Creepy, cryptic and bowel- looseningly heavy, it represents the first time that the doom metal stylings of Trouble, Saint Vitus, Pentagram and Witchfinder General had been rendered in a new, more extreme metallic form.
At the beginning of the new decade, it was really only Cathedral who were proud to assert the influence of true doom metal – a perennially unfashionable genre, but especially in a turn-of-the-decade metal scene so obsessed with speed, technicality, brutality and modernity.
Demo 1990:
Mourning of a New Day
All Your Sins
Ebony Tears
March
Live Holland/Belgium 1991
Comiserating the Celebration
Ebony Tears Neophytes For Serpent Eve
All Your Sins
Mourning of a New Day
DVD Live in Groningen (NL) May 1st 1991
Comiserating the Celebration
Ebony Tears
Neophytes For Serpent Eve
All Your Sins
Mourning of a New Day
