Surrealist dungeon synth noise from Albion, recorded in the not-so-great plague year.
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Tracks 2 and 10 based on an original composition by L. Oram, from Cementimental's 'To Teach an Owl' suite.
Cover illustration by W. Heath Robinson
Disgusting Cathedral is a project by Dr. Age (Cementimental, Isn'tses)
"It’s like the perfect halfway house between the Blade Runner score and Miles Davis Bitches Brew" - Damian Huntley
"Sounded like Tom Dissevelt trapped down a well." - Tony Mines
"I feel like watching the film – ‘A Chinese Ghost Story’ tonight, playing Besieged Defenders, the new album by Disgusting Cathedral reminds me of that film in parts." - 1208 North Fuller Ave Apt 1
"Disgusting Cathedral appears to do for rank, hideous, sickly electronic sounds what Kantbot does for incel ideology. The isolated parts of debut album Adventurer’s Despised and Rejected; casio keyboards, Eurotrack synths, Nintendo DS music apps, obsolete FX, and tape manipulations; shouldn’t amount to much more than the dank, squiggly, head fucked electronic noise that I usually write about in this column. And yet, those components congeal into something…. More. This music is deeply unsettling, no doubt, but it’s also exalted, cosmic, and beyond." - Adam Lehrer :-S
"a dark and grueling concept of restrained reverberations and malevolent soundscapes that tell an abrasive story of true Medieval happenings of a hideous nature" - The Dungeon in Deep Space -
thedungeonindeepspace.com/2021/02/05/disgusting-cathedral-injects-a-harsh-but-symphonic-form-of-controlled-chaos-in-adventurers-despised-and-rejected/
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Music video for "Per Bend Sinister or an Azure, a Badger Statant Counterchanged":
youtu.be/how41HLNOTU
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released May 11, 2020