The Garden of Unearthly Delights is the eighth full-length album by the British doom metal

Doom metal

Doom metal is an extreme form of heavy metal music that typically uses slower tempos, low-tuned guitars and a much "thicker" or "heavier" sound than other metal genres...

 band Cathedral

Cathedral (band)

Cathedral are a doom metal band from Coventry, England. The group forged a link between early doom metal and a 1990s extreme metal aesthetic, making doom slower and heavier. Their debut album, Forest of Equilibrium, is considered a classic of the genre. They later on changed their doom style,...

. It was released on January 26, 2006. The album title is inspired by the Hieronymous Bosch painting The Garden of Earthly Delights

The Garden of Earthly Delights

The Garden of Earthly Delights is a triptych painted by the early Netherlandish master Hieronymus Bosch , housed in the Museo del Prado in Madrid since 1939. Dating from between 1490 and 1510, when Bosch was about 40 or 50 years old, it is his best-known and most ambitious work...

. The album was recorded at New Rising Studios and produced by Warren Ryker.

The limited-edition digipack version of this album contains an apple-shaped Sniffle Disc CD that emits the smell of an apple when rubbed on the label side or heated during playback in a CD or CD-ROM player. However, this smell does wear off after a while and starts to emit an odour more like celery than apples - whether this is intentional or not is unknown.

Track listing

1. "Dearth AD 2005" - 1:00
2. "Tree of Life & Death" - 4:36
3. "North Berwick Witch Trials
   North Berwick witch trials
   The North Berwick witch trials were the trials in 1590 of a number of people from East Lothian, Scotland, accused of witchcraft in the St Andrew's Auld Kirk in North Berwick. They ran for two years and implicated seventy people. The accused included Francis Stewart, 5th Earl of Bothwell on charges...
   
   " - 5:58
4. "Upon Azrael's Wings" - 5:38
5. "Corpsecycle" - 5:54
6. "Fields of Zagara" - 1:59
7. "Oro the Manslayer" - 7:29
8. "Beneath a Funeral Sun" - 5:20
9. "The Garden" - 26:57
10. "Proga-Europa" - 5:58
    • "Proga-Europa" begins with 5:01 of silence. The last 0:57 make up the hidden track.

Credits

• Lee Dorian - Vocals, samples
• Garry Jennings - Guitar, acoustic guitar, percussion
• Brian Dixon - Drums, percussion
• Leo Smee - Bass guitar, mellotron, flute, synthesizers, auto harp
• Warren Riker - Recording & producing
• Dave Patchett - Cover art