This week sees new shit from HIM, Melvins, The Ocean, Cathedral, Howl, and more hitting stores. Check out the list of releases below and let us know which ones you’re snagging a copy of and which record should be the Album of the Week. Pick your favorite and feel free to vote as many times as you want. Voting ends on Monday, May 6, at noon, when the results will be announced.
This past weekend saw the 20th anniversary of Guns N’ Roses landmark Use Your Illusion albums. But 1991 was also the year that many other landmark releases in hard rock and metal came out, including Metallica’s “Black Album,” Nirvana’s Nevermind, Ozzy Osbourne’s No More Tears, and many, many more. Below, we want you to weigh in and tell us what the best heavy release of 1991 was. Horns up!
Long-running English doom rockers Cathedral have announced their final show will take place at The Forum in Kentish Town, London, on December 3, 2011. Support will come from Swedish heavy metal defenders Grand Magus, legendary cult English prog-rockers Comus and, also from England, classic rockers Gentleman’s Pistols.
“It’s just time to move on and leave our recorded legacy to linger,” says Cathedral singer Lee Dorian. “We would like to take this opportunity to express our sincere gratitude to those special people who have supported Cathedral over the years. It may sound like a cliché but it’s certainly true—we simply wouldn’t have been able to do it without you. Thanks!”
The band recently reunited with former bassist Scott Carlson (Repulsion, Death Breath) and will perform together for the first time in over a decade at Maryland Deathfest on Thursday, May 26th before hitting Brazil, Greece, the Czech Republic, Finland and Germany.
A final studio album, entitled The Last Spire, is currently in the works and is set to be released in 2012. On the possibility of future reunion shows, Dorian comments, “Well, we’ve been doing this for over 21 years now and I think it’s a bit of a cop-out when bands get back together. I never say never but I honestly can’t see it ever happening. The music means more to us than that and it’s not as though people haven’t had enough chances to see us over the years. I would say it’s very unlikely.”
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