Fountain of youth, lifespirit flowsinto a well of truths, of cold and dim repose.I craved to be as high as the pillowy clouds,to walk amongst the tall, who used to look back down and frown.[Chorus:]Now here I stand by the wasteland, where our dreams began.From these once golden fields our curiosity ran...I chased the sugar claw through temptation's door,the bitterness I found...sweetness I taste no moreFrom the play ground to the slayground,the sombre middleground absords the emptiness.[Chorus 2:]Look back across the marble sea of discovery,a fountain of innocent flows in juvenescence.I'm resident in corridors of sentiment.I face the wall - discovery terminal,but there's no more false truths I wish to discover,and I am physically unable, to tread back down those corridors.Fountain of youth, oh how I bathed in your innocence,and now in cold repose, I must face the bitter truth... ________________________________________ _The Ethereal Mirror marks the beginning of Cathedral into experimentation and the mixture of a variety of influences, such as groovy 70s styles, psychedelic tunes, death and doom metal, and of course Black Sabbath (Sabbath adjective never is missing with them) because in "Forest of Equilibrium" sound can be appreciated as all doom, and the texture of sounds is pretty much the same in every track of that debut album, but with "The Ethereal Mirror" this band from Birmingham, England, entered the "big leagues" of grind core and doom groups that at the time (mid 90s) caught the eye of record labels interested in the global distribution of the new wave of extreme metal mostly from Earache label catalogue Entombed, Carcass, Fudge Tunnel), so that new perspective inspired Cathedral to improve their sound with the influences before mentioned without compromise their integrity and they did it great! Cathedral can be now considered as one of the most interesting bands in British Metal history, Now, "The Ethereal Mirror" is maybe Cathedrals most "commercial" release therefore is one of their best recorded albums due to "Columbia/Earache" brief association, this album is like caviar, the more you test it , the more you like it, "Ride" , "Enter the Worms", "Midnight Mountain" and the beautiful and acoustic "Imprisoned in Flesh" made of "The Ethereal Mirror" and album that's worth every cent.

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