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Cathedral - Soul Sacrifice
Copyright © 1992 Earache
1. Soul Sacrifice
2. Autumn Twilight
3. Frozen Rapture
4. Golden Blood (Flooding)
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This EP came out after the UK doom band established their style with "Forest of Equilibrium," and partly out of change from that context is an exploration of the rockier, faster and more chorus-y style of doom metal on the album, a metal surface that would eventually be called stoner rock as the genre developed. The song "Soul Sacrifice" was slower on the full length but on this is a bouncy, jaunty song that like the others on this release does nothing to slow its catchy, anthemic momentum toward melodic choruses. Possibly some of the band's finest work as a result, these songs combine the precision minimalism and calculated repetition of their uniquely powerful riffwriting agency at the time, as components, with a fluid melodicity and undulating drone rhythm that bands like Paradise Lost first introduced to the genre. Every track brings its own emotions and most clarify a mood before departing, leaving us to wonder why Cathedral bothered with anything but the vein of lucid honesty perfected on these four tracks.
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