Forest of Equilibrium was, to Lee Dorrian’s analysis, a ‘90s version of early ‘80s Trouble reared in a different era. That 20-year expanse is age-long, but the fruits of that labor and untethered invention were consumed obsessively by four young Brits - several of which were (in)famously in Napalm Death and Acid Reign - enamored by the slower end of the extreme music spectrum. The obvious rear-view mirror look-back posits Black Sabbath, Witchfinder General, Trouble, Candlemass, and a host of others having contributed to all that’s heavy starting in the hazy late ‘60s and rumbling straight through to the early ‘80s. Certainly, there’s precedence in the drawn-out, long-form doom and gloom the Coventry-based quartet (plus stand-in drummer Mike Smail) purveyed unapologetically. Exclusive, Featured, Interview, Interviews 30th Anniversary, Adam Lehan, British Doom Metal, Cathedral, Deciblog interview, Doom Metal, Interviews, Lee Dorrian, United Kingdom.Ĭathedral’s debut, Forest of Equilibrium, wasn’t any of what their labelmates (or the rest of underground metal for that matter) were doing in 1991.
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