Album: The Guessing Game by Cathedral (2010)
Genre: Doom Metal | Style: Metal
Record Label: Nuclear Blast
Format: Album

Description: The Guessing Game is the ninth full-length album by the British doom metal band Cathedral. It was released on 26 March 2010 on the Nuclear Blast label.  It is the first double-album from the band.
It was voted the eighth best album of the year in the Metal Hammer magazine critics poll of 2010.
Describing the album as Cathedral's "magnum opus", Phil Freeman wrote for AllMusic that The Guessing Game offered the "most psychedelic, progressive material in the band's entire catalog".

Artist Background: Doom metal band from Coventry, England. The group was formed in 1989 by Lee Dorrian (formerly vocalist of Napalm Death), Mark ‘Griff' Griffiths (a Carcass roadie) and Gary ‘Gaz' Jennings (previously a member of UK thrashers Acid Reign). The band 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, though the band would later add psychedelic and progressive... Part of the Coventry, UK music scene. Emerged in the 1980s era. Associated with Doom Metal movement. Known for Metal style.

Music Scene: Part of the Coventry, UK music scene. Emerged in the 1980s era. Associated with Doom Metal movement. Known for Metal style.

Tags: Doom Metal, Metal, 2010s, Album, Nuclear Blast

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The Guessing Game is the ninth full-length album by the British doom metal band Cathedral. It was released on 26 March 2010 on the Nuclear Blast label.  It is the first double-album from the band.
It was voted the eighth best album of the year in the Metal Hammer magazine critics poll of 2010.
Describing the album as Cathedral's "magnum opus", Phil Freeman wrote for AllMusic that The Guessing Game offered the "most psychedelic, progressive material in the band's entire catalog".

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