The Ethereal Mirror

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The Ethereal Mirror
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Studio album by
Cathedral
Released24 May 1993 (1993-05-24) (UK)
6 July 1993 (1993-07-06) (US)
Recorded1993
StudioThe Manor Studio, Oxfordshire, England
Genre
Length54:26
Label
ProducerDavid Bianco
Cathedral chronology
Forest of Equilibrium
(1991) 		The Ethereal Mirror
(1993) 		Statik Majik
(1994)

The Ethereal Mirror is the second studio album by British doom metal band Cathedral. It was first released on 24 May 1993 through Earache Records, and in the United States on 6 July 1993 through Columbia Records. Earache re-issued the album in 2009 with the Statik Majik EP as bonus tracks and the DVD Ethereal Reflections as DualDisc.[1]

Artwork

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The album's front cover artwork unfolds and expands into something "much larger and weirder," according to Kenny Schticky of MetalSucks.[2]

Reception and legacy

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Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusicStarStarStarStarHalf star[3]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal9/10[4]
The Encyclopedia of Popular MusicStarStarStarStarFile:Star empty.svg[5]
Kerrang!StarStarStarStarFile:Star empty.svg[6]
Metal.de8/10[7]
Record-JournalA[8]
Rock Hard8.5/10[9]
Rock Sound9/10[10]

The Ethereal Mirror received critical acclaim.[5] Peter Atkinson of the Record-Journal stated that "By tempering the oppressive gloom of its debut for a more spirited thunder, Britain's Cathedral has crafted the heaviest and most brutally satisfying album of the year."[8] Kerrang!'s Xavier Russell considered it a stronger album than Forest of Equilibrium, praising Lee Dorrian's discernable vocals and the interplay between guitarists Adam Lehan and Garry Jennings.[6] In their retrospective review, Metal.de called the album "a work of transition that seems almost formless in a positive sense, which draws its charm from the close proximity of styles and moods: dark doom here, right next to loosely rocking brain drills".[7] Martin Popoff, writing in The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal Volume 3: The Nineties (2007), called the album "Fantastically powerful throughout" and singled out "Ride" as the best track in Cathedral's discography up to that point.[4]

In 2000, Terrorizer listed the album as one of the "100 Most Important Albums of the Nineties".[11] In 2005, Kerrang! ranked the album at number 83 on their list of the "100 Best British Rock Albums Ever", stating that it "confirmed [Cathedral's] status as the real Brit metal warlords."[12] In 2014, Decibel ranked the album at number 56 on their list of the "Top 100 Doom Metal Albums of All Time".[13] On Loudwire's 2017 list of the "Top 25 Doom Metal Albums of All Time", it was ranked ninth.[14]

In 2022, Kenny Schticky of MetalSucks included the album in his list of "10 CD Booklets That Should Be Remembered as Fine Art."[2]

Track listing

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All lyrics are written by Lee Dorrian, except where noted.

No.TitleLyricsMusicLength
1."Violet Vortex (Intro)" (instrumental) Garry Jennings1:54
2."Ride" Jennings4:47
3."Enter the Worms"
  • Lee Dorrian
  • David Bianco
Adam Lehan6:05
4."Midnight Mountain"
  • Dorrian
  • Bianco
Lehan4:55
5."Fountain of Innocence" Jennings7:13
6."Grim Luxuria" Lehan4:46
7."Jaded Entity"
  • Dorrian
  • Bianco
Jennings7:53
8."Ashes You Leave"
  • Dorrian
  • Bianco
Jennings6:22
9."Phantasmagoria"
  • Dorrian
  • Bianco
Jennings8:44
10."Imprisoned in Flesh"
  • Dorrian
  • Bianco
Jennings1:47
Total length:54:26
1996 CD re-issue bonus tracks
No.TitleLength
11."Sky Lifter" (instrumental)3:27
12."A Funeral Request (New 1993 Version)"7:37

Personnel

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Cathedral

Technical personnel

  • David Bianco – recording, production, mixing
  • Shaun DeFo – engineering
  • Dave Patchett – cover painting
  • Summer Lacy – inside layout

Release history

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Release history for The Ethereal Mirror
Region Label Format Date Catalog # Ref.
Europe Earache
24 May 1993 MOSH 77 [15]
United States Columbia
  • CD
  • CS
 6 July 1993 CK 53633 [16]
United States Earache
  • CD
  • CS
 10 September 1996 MOSH 77 [17]
Various DualDisc 1 July 2009 MOSH077CDD [18]
LP 5 April 2019 MOSH077LPUS [19]

References

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  3. ^ Birchmeier, Jason. Cathedral: The Ethereal Mirror at AllMusic. Retrieved 4 November 2016.
  4. ^ a b Popoff 2007.
  5. ^ a b Larkin 1998.
  6. ^ a b Russell 1993.
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  8. ^ a b Atkinson 1993.
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  10. ^ Kerswell 2009.
  11. ^ Kalsi 2000.
  12. ^ Bird 2005, p. 22.
  13. ^ Fury 2014, p. 21.
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  15. ^ Anon. 1993.
  16. ^ Duffy 1993.
  17. ^ Anon. 1996.
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