Interview - Cathedral
7/7/04
The impending Cathedral compilation
Sam: You guys have
a compliation coming out on Earache?
Lee Dorian: "It's like a compilation
I guess, all the most obvious tracks on one disk, and
then, kind of a 2 disk set, the other disk is kind of
unreleased songs and just rare stuff that was hanging
around really. Just to make it more interesting than
your basic 'best of' thing you know?"
Sam: Yeah
LD: "'cause Earache were planning
on doing that anyway, so we kinda of thought...they
approched us, asked us if we wanted to get involved,
and we were thinking of doing it, it would be nice to
have some kind of involvement with it to make it so we
would be happy with it."
Sam: The set covers basically,
Cathedral's entire career with Earache I'm guessing?
LD: "It goes up to Forest
(Of Equilibrium) our first album, to our last album
with them which was Endtyme, yeah, so about 6 albums
worth of stuff. About 12 years in fact, as well, spans
quite a long time actually."
Sam: So there's some hard to find
stuff on there?
LD: "On disk 2 yeah, especially
the older stuff on that has never been heard before
really. Except for one track of it, and that was just
available on some compilation album, I donno how many
years ago. Everything else on there, I think there are
like 12-13 songs, and only one of those has been heard
before."
Sam: Any plans to tour behind it?
LD: "Not really at the moment,
we're doing a few shows in the U.K. in the next few
weeks, then we're going to play Wacken festival in
Germany. Then, see, we're in the middle of working on
our next full proper new album at the moment. This
Earache compilation is coming right between the last
album and the next one, it's like a stop-gap between
albums, and our main purpose at the moment is to
finish working on our new album."
Sam: How far along are you guys
into the new album?
LD: "I think we're about 3/4 of
the way, we just need to finalize a few things and
touch a few things up. So hopefully we should be
recording in September/October. So, that's going to be
out on Nuclear Blast I believe February of next year.
And we should do a proper world tour I guess when that
comes out."