The discography of the English doom metal band Cathedral consists of ten studio albums, eight EPs, a number of singles, one live album 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

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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
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
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
The Guessing Game
  • Released: 26 March 2010
  • Label: Nuclear Blast
  • Formats: CD, LP, DL[20]
103 22
The Last Spire
  • Released: 29 April 2013
  • Label: Rise Above, Metal Blade
  • Formats: CD, LP, DL
121 44 43 24
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.
Title Album details
Soul Sacrifice
  • Released: 20 October 1992
  • Label: Earache
  • Formats: CD, CS, LP, DL[23]
Twylight Songs
  • Released: 1993
  • Label: Ultimatum
  • Formats: LP
Statik Majik
  • Released: 5 April 1994
  • Label: Earache
  • Formats: CD, CS, LP, DL[24]
In Memorium
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

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Title Album details
Anniversary
  • Released: 31 October 2011
  • Label: Rise Above, Metal Blade
  • Formats: CD, DL

Demos

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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

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

Compilation albums

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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[27]

Split albums

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Title Album details Notes
Rock Hard Presents: Gods of Grind
  • Released: December 1991
  • Label: Earache
  • Formats: CD
Cutting Through Columbia Hard Music
  • Released: 1992
  • Label: Columbia
  • Formats: CS
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

Video albums

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

Music videos

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Year Title Directed Album
1991 "Ebony Tears" James McBride Forest Of Equilibrium
1992 "Autumn Twilight" Jefferson Spady[28] Soul Sacrifice
1993 "Midnight Mountain" James McBride[29] The Ethereal Mirror
"Ride" Angus Cameron[30]
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[31] The Last Spire

References

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  10. ^ "iTunes - Music - The Ethereal Mirror by Cathedral". iTunes. February 1993. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
  11. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-09-12. Retrieved 2016-04-25.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  12. ^ "iTunes - Music - The Carnival Bizarre by Cathedral". iTunes. 28 September 1995. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
  13. ^ "iTunes - Music - Supernatural Birth Machine by Cathedral". iTunes. 8 October 1996. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
  14. ^ "iTunes - Music - Caravan Beyond Redemption by Cathedral". iTunes. 6 December 1998. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
  15. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-09-12. Retrieved 2016-04-25.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  16. ^ "iTunes - Music - Endtyme by Cathedral". iTunes. 3 April 2001. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
  17. ^ "iTunes - Music - The VIIth Coming by Cathedral". iTunes. 31 May 2002. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
  18. ^ "iTunes - Music - The Garden of Unearthly Delights by Cathedral". iTunes. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
  19. ^ "Soundscan Report: P.O.D., Sworn Enemy, Scarlet, Nasum, Cathedral - Blabbermouth.net". BLABBERMOUTH.NET. February 2006. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
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  22. ^ "Metal By Numbers 5/8: What's With HIM?". Metal Insider. 8 May 2013. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
  23. ^ "iTunes - Music - Soul Sacrifice - EP by Cathedral". iTunes. 20 October 1992. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
  24. ^ "iTunes - Music - Statik Majik by Cathedral". iTunes. 25 March 2009. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
  25. ^ "iTunes - Music - Hopkins the Witchfinder General - EP by Cathedral". iTunes. 9 April 1996. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
  26. ^ "iTunes - Music - Cathedral (Live In London) - EP by Cathedral". iTunes. 10 December 2010. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
  27. ^ "iTunes - Music - Serpents Gold by Cathedral". iTunes. 21 April 2004. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
  28. ^ ""Autumn Twilight (Spanish)" by Cathedral - Music Video - VH1.com". vh1.com. Archived from the original on June 19, 2015. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
  29. ^ ""Midnight Mountain" by Cathedral - Music Video - VH1.com". vh1.com. Archived from the original on June 19, 2015. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
  30. ^ ""Ride" by Cathedral - Music Video - VH1.com". vh1.com. Archived from the original on June 19, 2015. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
  31. ^ "Cathedral: 'Tower Of Silence' Video Released - Blabbermouth.net". BLABBERMOUTH.NET. 27 March 2013. Retrieved 8 August 2015.