Cathedral discography

The discography of the English doom metal band Cathedral consists of ten studio albums, eight EPs, a number of singles, two live albums and two collections. ^[1] Led by ex-Napalm Death vocalist Lee Dorrian, the band was signed to Earache Records in 1991. They briefly switched to Spitfire Records in 2002 and released The VIIth Coming. Later, they switched to Nuclear Blast and released two more studio albums. Cathedral's final album, The Last Spire was released through Dorrian's own label, Rise Above.

Studio albums

Title	Album details	Peak chart positions						Sales
		JPN [2]	UK [3]	FIN [4]	SWE [5]	GRC [6] [7]	US Heat [8]
Forest of Equilibrium	Released: 6 December 1991 Label: Earache, Relativity Formats: CD, CS, DualDisc, LP, DL [9]	—	—	—	—	40	—
The Ethereal Mirror	Released: 1 February 1993 Label: Earache, Columbia Formats: CD, CS, DualDisc, LP, DL [10]	—	—	—	—	40	—	US: 22,629+ [11]
The Carnival Bizarre	Released: 26 September 1995 Label: Earache Formats: CD, CD+DVD, CS, LP, DL [12]	73	130	—	—	—	—
Supernatural Birth Machine	Released: 12 November 1996 Label: Earache Formats: CD, CS, LP, DL [13]	56	—	—	—	—	—
Caravan Beyond Redemption	Released: 6 December 1998 Label: Earache Formats: CD, LP, DL [14]	64	—	—	—	—	—	US: 1,946+ [15]
Endtyme	Released: 26 February 2001 Label: Earache Formats: CD, LP, DL [16]	57	—	—	—	—	—
The VIIth Coming	Released: 5 November 2002 Label: Spitfire Formats: CD, LP, DL [17]	—	—	—	—	—	—
The Garden of Unearthly Delights	Released: 26 September 2005 Label: Nuclear Blast Formats: CD, LP, DL [18]	154	—	—	—	—	—	US: 400+ [19]
The Guessing Game	Released: 26 March 2010 Label: Nuclear Blast Formats: CD, LP, DL [20]	103	—	—	—	22	—	US: 700+ [21]
The Last Spire	Released: 29 April 2013 Label: Rise Above, Metal Blade Formats: CD, LP, DL	121	—	44	43	—	24	US: 920+ [22]
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

EPs

Title	Album details
Soul Sacrifice	Released: 17 August 1992 [23] Label: Earache Formats: CD, CS, LP, DL
Twylight Songs	Released: 1993 Label: Ultimatum Formats: LP
Statik Majik	Released: 5 April 1994 Label: Earache Formats: CD, CS, LP, DL [24]
In Memorium	Released: 1994 Label: Rise above Formats: CD
Cosmic Requiem	Released: 30 August 1994 Label: Earache, Columbia Formats: CD, CS
Hopkins (The Witchfinder General)	Released: 9 April 1996 Label: Earache Formats: CD, CS, LP, DL [25]
Live in London	Released: 10 December 2010 Label: Earache Formats: DL [26]
A New Ice Age	Released: 2 December 2011 Label: Rise Above Formats: LP

Live albums

Title	Album details
Anniversary	Released: 31 October 2011 Label: Rise Above, Metal Blade Formats: CD, DL
Freak Winter	Released: 03 April 2020 [27] Label: Rise Above Formats: Double LP

Demos

Title	Album details
In Memorium	Released: October 1990 Label: Self-released Formats: CS
Demo No. 2: Forest of Equilibrium sessions	Released: 1991 Label: Self-released Formats: CS

Singles

Title	Year
Grim Luxuria	1993
Ride
Twylight Songs
Gargoylian	2001
Vengeance of the Blind Dead (Flexi Version)	2013

Compilation albums

Title	Album details
In Memoriam	Released: 1999 Label: Rise Above Formats: CD
The Serpent's Gold	Released: 21 June 2004 Label: Earache Formats: CD, DL [28]

Split albums

Title	Album details	Notes
Rock Hard Presents: Gods of Grind	Released: December 1991 Label: Earache Formats: CD	split with Entombed, Carcass and Confessor
Cutting Through Columbia Hard Music	Released: 1992 Label: Columbia Formats: CS	split with Fight and Alice in Chains
Gods of Grind	Released: 1992 Label: Earache Formats: CD	split with Entombed, Carcass and Confessor
New Metal Messiahs!	Released: June 1995 Label: Kerrang! Magazine Formats: CD	split with My Dying Bride, Paradise Lost and Pitchshifter

Video albums

Title	Album details
Our God Has Landed	Released: 18 January 2000 Label: Earache Formats: VHS

Music videos

Year	Title	Directed	Album
1991	"Ebony Tears"	James McBride	Forest Of Equilibrium
1992	"Autumn Twilight"	Jefferson Spady [29]	Soul Sacrifice
1993	"Midnight Mountain"	James McBride [30]	The Ethereal Mirror
	"Ride"	Angus Cameron [31]
1994	"Cosmic Funeral"	—	Statik Majik
1995	"Hopkins (The Witchfinder General)"	Nigel Wingrove	Hopkins
1996	"Stained Glass Horizon"	—	Supernatural Birth Machine
1999	"Black Sunday"	—	Caravan Beyond Redemption
2013	"Tower Of Silence"	Paraffin City Productions [32]	The Last Spire

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