It is the eighth release of the UK doomsters and current Cathedral skinsman Brian Dixon (photo) one again is pounding his heavy drums like a smith.

The new album, dubbed \"The Garden of Unearthly Delights\", features ten new songs.

The upcoming release is produced by Warren Ryker (known from his work for Down and Crowbar among ohters). It\'s the follow-up for the 2002 album \"VIIth Coming\".

According to Nuclear Blast the new album is the most varied effort of the band so far an states:

\"Cathedral have achieved much more than simply living up to that reputation – the guys created timeless songs that couldn`t be farther away from standardisation, stagnation and convention.

The centerpiece of it all certainly is the 27-minute-long mammoth epos \"The Garden\" that almost bursts with such a wealth of ideas and changes in atmosphere that other bands probably couldn\'t come up with on a whole album.

You can hear a preview here. It\'s the song Upon Azrael\'s Wings.

In 2004 Earache released a \'best of\' CD-set: \"The Serpent`s Gold\".