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The Carnival Bizarre

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The Carnival Bizarre is the third album by British doom metal band Cathedral, released in September 1995 through Earache.[1]

Reception

The album has enjoyed highly positive reviews from many music critics. Allmusic and Sputnikmusic were very impressed with this release and both gave the album four and a half stars out of five. Terrorizer Magazine gave the album eight and a half stars out of ten and Spirit of Metal scored the release eighteen points out of twenty.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Lee Dorrian and Garry Jennings, except where noted

No.TitleLength
1."Vampire Sun" (Written by Jennings, Dorrian and Scott Carlson)4:06
2."Hopkins (The Witchfinder General)"5:18
3."Utopian Blaster"5:41
4."Night of the Seagulls" (Written by Jennings, Dorrian and Carlson)7:00
5."Carnival Bizarre"8:35
6."Inertia's Cave"6:39
7."Fangalactic Supergoria"5:54
8."Blue Light"3:27
9."Palace of Fallen Majesty"7:43
10."Electric Grave"8:25
Japanese version bonus track
No.TitleLength
11."Karmacopia"5:06

Personnel

Cathedral

  • Lee Dorrian – vocals
  • Garry Jennings – guitar, mellotron (5, 8), keyboard (4, 10), percussion (5, 10), choir (4)
  • Leo Smee – bass, mellotron (3, 8), choir (4)
  • Brian Dixon – drums, choir (4)

Additional musicians

Technical personnel

  • Kit Woolven – production, engineering
  • Doug Cook – assistant engineering
  • Noel Summerville – mastering

References

  1. ^ a b "Cathedral 'The Carnival Bizarre'". earache.com. Earache. Retrieved 4 November 2016.

http://www.australian-charts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Cathedral&titel=The+Carnival+Bizarre&cat=a Retrieved 13 April 2009
http://www.allthatisheavy.com/info.asp?item_num=ATH-5413 Retrieved 13 April 2009
http://www.spirit-of-metal.com/album-groupe-Cathedral-nom_album-The_Carnival_Bizarre-l-en.html Retrieved 13 April 2009
http://www.musicmademe.com/album/33425 Retrieved 13 April 2009