The Guessing Game
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The Guessing Game is the ninth full-length album by the British doom metal
band Cathedral
. It was released on March 26, 2010. It is the first double-album from the band.
It got voted as the eighth best album in the Metal Hammer Magazine Critics Poll of 2010.
Doom metal
Doom metal is an extreme form of heavy metal music that typically uses slower tempos, low-tuned guitars and a much "thicker" or "heavier" sound than other metal genres...
band Cathedral
Cathedral (band)
Cathedral are a doom metal band from Coventry, England. The group forged a link between early doom metal and a 1990s extreme metal aesthetic, making doom slower and heavier. Their debut album, Forest of Equilibrium, is considered a classic of the genre. They later on changed their doom style,...
. It was released on March 26, 2010. It is the first double-album from the band.
It got voted as the eighth best album in the Metal Hammer Magazine Critics Poll of 2010.
Disc one
- "Immaculate Misconception" (Leo Smee) – 2:24
- "Funeral of Dreams" – 8:28
- "Painting in the Dark" – 6:18
- "Death of an Anarchist" – 7:12
- "The Guessing Game" (Jennings) – 3:08
- "Edwige's Eyes" – 7:08
- "Cats, Incense, Candles and Wine" – 6:01
Disc two
- "One Dimensional People" (Smee) – 2:30
- "The Casket Chasers" – 6:41
- "La Noche del Buque Maldito (aka Ghost Ship of the Blind Dead)" (Dorrian, Jennings, Smee) – 5:46
- "The Running Man" (Dorrian) – 8:46
- "Requiem for the Voiceless" – 9:50
- "Journey into Jade" – 10:36
- "Journey into Jade" ends at 6:32 and continues with silence until 9:32. At this point, there begins a voice recording of Cathedral artist Dave Patchett describing the theme of the artwork for The Guessing Game. At one point during this audio section, Lee Dorrian stifles a laugh in response to one of Dave's opinions about religion. There is music playing in the background.
Credits
- Lee DorrianLee DorrianLee Dorrian is a singer from Coventry, England. Originally the editor/publisher of the Cov punk fanzine "Committed Suicide" he then went on to be the singer and lyricist with Napalm Death and recorded one and a half albums with them, namely the second half of Scum and From Enslavement to...
- Vocals, samples - Garry Jennings - Guitar, acoustic guitar, percussion
- Brian Dixon - Drums, percussion
- Leo Smee - Bass guitar, mellotron, flute, synthesizers, auto harp
- Dave Patchett - Cover art
- Warren Riker - production, engineering, mixing
- Maor Appelbaum - mastering