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''The Last Spire'' is the tenth studio album by the British doom metal band Cathedral. Intended by the band as their farewell album, it was released in April 2013 on Rise Above Records and Metal Blade Records. The album was praised for returning the band to its doom roots,〔〔 with Nick Green of ''Decibel Magazine'' observing that "few bands get to write their own epitaphs in such vivid, exacting terms". ==Overview== Cathedral announced on 6 February 2011, that they would release one final album and then disband. This announcement occurred well prior to the recording of ''The Last Spire''.〔 Lee Dorrian described the band's planned retirement as a "funeral" for the band, which was a "long and gratifying process". For Dorrian, the announcement enabled the band to record the album without pressure, "as it meant that we no longer had anything to prove and could make this album purely on our own terms".〔 Building upon the "funeral" metaphor, Dorrian later stated that the band's decision to plan for its own demise ultimately ''The Last Spire'' returns to a slower, doom-oriented sound akin to the band's debut, ''Forest of Equilibrium''. Dorrian explained that the return to Cathedral's roots for its final album was not only intentional, but long anticipated: According to Dorrian, Cathedral's decision to omit those tracks which did not fit with the goal of creating an "unhappy ending" resulted in "six or seven songs" which were cut because they "all strayed in different directions, and I wanted this () to be a lot more focused than the albums we'd done in recent times".〔 Several of the songs have already appeared, including: "Vengeance Of The Blind Dead" on a Decibel magazine flexi-disc (an alternate version of the same song appears as a bonus track on the Japanese version of ''The Last Spire''); a track with a "shuffle beat" titled "Evil Wizard", which will appear on a forthcoming Rise Above Records compilation to be released by Record Collector magazine; one unfinished "very epic" song that is thirty minutes in length which the band may finish and release as a 12" record; and four "groovy" songs closer to the band's more recent recordings.〔 Ultimately, Dorrian acknowledged his comfort with letting ''The Last Spire'' stand as Cathedral's legacy.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Last Spire」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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