• Cathedral "In Memoriam" CD+DVD

Rise Above Records

Coming Soon!
ETA : Mid-Dec 2025

"The legendary, landmark 1990 demo remastered. Includes raw live set from 1991 and bonus DVD. Also includes 28 page booklet with detailed notes and many rare photos.

DOOM OR BE DOOMED!"

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.

Tracklisting :

Demo 1990:

1.Mourning of a New Day

2.All Your Sins

3.Ebony Tears

4.March

Live Holland/Belgium 1991

5.Comiserating the Celebration

6.Ebony Tears
7.Neophytes For Serpent Eve

8.All Your Sins

9.Mourning of a New Day

DVD Live in Groningen (NL) May 1st 1991

1.Comiserating the Celebration

2..Ebony Tears

3.Neophytes For Serpent Eve

4.All Your Sins

5.Mourning of a New Day