Style and Lyrical Themes
| “ | When we first started, the music of Cathedral was a lot more extreme than it is now, a lot more morose and depressing, because that's how we felt at the time. We'd all come out of the Death Metal scene, or the grindcore scene or whatever, and I was just as much into the slower stuff as I was into the faster stuff. I just wanted to do something a bit different, so we took all our influences like Vitus and Pentagram and the Obsessed and stuff and decided to take that kind of music one step further, bring it into the 90's, make it more extreme, more heavy and downtuned than any of those bands had done before. That was our first and foremost ambition, and I think we probably achieved that when we did our first album. | ” |
Dorrian has talked in the past about his issues with the categorisation done by the music press, especially with the "stoner rock" tag:
| “ | To me, the stoner thing is just another thing for the media to try and understand something that's quite hard for them to comprehend, putting a category on it just to make it accessible to the readers, when really it's just good old traditional heavy rock, heavy Metal, played with like a bit of enthusiasm and energy. I think at the end of the day, if you want to call it disco doom, which is totally fucking ridiculous, stoner doom, stoner rock, it doesn't really matter, it's just heavy metal heavy rock music. |
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