The Garden of Unearthly Delights

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The Garden of Unearthly Delights
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Studio album by
Cathedral
Released26 September 2005
RecordedMay 2005
StudioNew Rising Studios, Essex, England
Genre Stoner metal, doom metal
Length70:53
Label Nuclear Blast
Producer Warren Riker
Cathedral chronology
The Serpent's Gold
(2004)		The Garden of Unearthly Delights
(2005)		 The Guessing Game
(2010)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [1]
The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal 8/10 [2]
Decibel 8/10 [3]

The Garden of Unearthly Delights is the eighth full-length album by the British doom metal band Cathedral. It was released on 26 January 2006. The album title is inspired by the Hieronymous Bosch painting The Garden of Earthly Delights. [4] The album was recorded at New Rising Studios and produced by Warren Riker. [1]

Contents

The limited-edition digipak version of this album contains an apple-shaped Sniffle Disc CD that emits the smell of an apple when rubbed on the label side or heated during playback in a CD or CD-ROM player. [5]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Dearth AD 2005"1:00
2."Tree of Life & Death"4:36
3."North Berwick Witch Trials"5:58
4."Upon Azrael's Wings"5:38
5."Corpsecycle"5:54
6."Fields of Zagara"1:59
7."Oro the Manslayer"7:29
8."Beneath a Funeral Sun"5:20
9."The Garden"
  • "I. Thorns of Creation"
  • "II. Trouble in the Garden
  • "III. Into the Valley of the Violent Orchids"
    • a) Cadaverous Butterfly
    • b) Blind Man's Gate
  • "IV. Flight of the Reaper"
    • a) Court of the Cosmic Judge
    • b) Tunnel of Death
  • "V. Alarm Bells in Paradise"
    • a) Morning of a Paused Dawn
    • b) Black Bubophyllum Sunrise
  • "VI. Exit the Valley of Violent Orchids"
    • a) Through the Concrete Meadows of Life
    • b) Chains of Morality
  • "VII. Back to the Garden"
  • "VIII. Pool of Sleeping Minds"
  • "IX. Endtyme"
26:57
10."Proga-Europa"5:58
    • "Proga-Europa" begins with 5:01 of silence. The last 0:57 make up the hidden track.

Personnel

References

  1. 1 2 AllMusic review
  2. ↑ Popoff, Martin; Perri, David (2011). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 4: The '00s. Collector's Guide Publishing. pp. 75–76. ISBN   9781-926592-20-6.
  3. ↑ Yates, Catherine (February 2006). "Reviews". Decibel . No. 16. Red Flag Media, Inc. p. 73.
  4. ↑ Welcome to Nuclear Blast USA!
  5. ↑ Smell The Music, Nuclear Blast website
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