Customer Reviews

Guessing Game

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I was floored the first time I listened to this. It's like all the best parts of Cathedral, with something new and old at the same time... quite difficult to explain. I highly recommend this to all fans of Cathedral, and good stoner/doom metal. What really separates this from their previous albums is the extent of the psychedelic and progressive 70's classic rock elements thrown in... makes for quite an interesting listen, indeed. I cannot recommend this enough!

This album with the Carnival Bizarre are their best albums. Its full of great songs with very good melodies. It reminds me a little Lake of tears. This album is not classic Cathedral but i dont care since its one of their best albums. If you like black sabbath and Carnival Bizarre then buy this great album

Having been a Cathedral fan for many years I was eager to see what the new songs would sound like on their new double album. Cathedral have been responsible for some of the best metal riffs ever and a listen to their back catalogue would verify this, particularly The Etheral Mirror, Carnival Bizzare and Supernatural Birth Machine. This new disc has been touted in some quarters as being something different with copious amounts of prog and psychedelic sounds being evident. Well this is certainly true but the core Cathedral sound is still very much there. The massive riffs and time changes abound. I'm lovin the different guitar tones Gaz Jennings is using on this album and the songs are featuring up to three or four changes within each number. Gaz is going for it on this release and it has become my favourite release from the band since er.... The Garden of Unearthly Delights. The Sabbath worship is still evident but the use of the melotron and other effects does nothing to detract from the power of the songs. Cathedral have tweaked their sound a bit and are the better for it. Feels like I'm listenin to some early Uriah Heep, Yes or Black Widow in some places and to be honest it's bloody refreshing. I wasn't expecting to be blown away by The Guessing Game as much this and it's a pleasant surprise.

This is definitinely a Cathedral album;bizarre,doomy & gloomy but they went too out of their line with this release and I still believe is a very good production but their effort was stopped in time.Their best 3 songs:Painting in the Dark,The Casket Chasers & Journeys Into Jade but if you still want to try it I recommend to listen to full songs and not just samples.

I have been listening to these guys for years and i hate this disc. Its more prog rock than doom which is fine if you like prog. The carnival Bizarre and Forest of Equilibrium would be good choices for someone that has never heard these guys before. I don't know i just hate this disc.

Simply put, these guys may have a long history of making similar Black Sabbath and, to a lesser degree, early King Crimson. Having not heard of them before I listened to a few of the 30 second samples that Amazon offers. A couple of the tracks (in that 30 second context) sounded pretty good so I took the plunge more or less blindly. First of all, this could have been a much better ( and even that may be stretching it. ) single cd as two were certainly a waste of time. Lots of basically stoned out noodling on some of the tracks while the last track, listed as having a running time of over 10 minutes actually has about 6 1/2 minutes of actual music, 3:45 seconds of silence and then about 15-20 seconds of in the studio babble.

Imho a must to avoid.