Originally Posted by MicShazam

I think they're an interesting band. A lot of Black Sabbath inspiration, some much slower tempos (depending on the album), but also albums that sound more like stoner rock or even have a mild progressive element to them. Most metal "scholars" would tell you to listen to their first three albums, and indeed, that's where you find some of the pioneering doom metal aspects before most other bands did it (the track "Ebony Tears" is genre defining. The story goes that they had to fight repeatedly with the producer over the slow tempo, as the thought it sounded totally wrong and wouldn't do it). Personally, I also think several of their newer albums are great and very colorful and varied. "Caravan Beyond Redemption", "The Garden of Unearthly Delights", "The Guessing Game", to name some favorite albums of mine.

A randomly selected late-discography Cathedral track that I really like:

North Berwick Witch Trials

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.