''Supernatural Birth Machine'' is the fourth studio album by British

doom metal Doom metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music that typically uses slower tempos, low-tuned guitars and a much "thicker" or "heavier" sound than other heavy metal genres.K. Kahn-Harris, ''Extreme Metal: Music and Culture on the Edge'' ...

band

Cathedral A cathedral is a church (building), church that contains the of a bishop, thus serving as the central church of a diocese, Annual conferences within Methodism, conference, or episcopate. Churches with the function of "cathedral" are usually s ...

, released on 12 November 1996 through

Earache Records Earache Records is a British independent record label, music publisher and management company founded by Digby Pearson in 1985, based in Nottingham, England, with offices in London and New York. The label helped to pioneer extreme metal by r ...

Track listing

Personnel

Cathedral

Lee Dorrian Lee Robert Dorrian (born 5 June 1968) is an English singer, best known as a former member of grindcore band Napalm Death and later as frontman of doom metal band Cathedral. He is currently singing with Septic Tank and With the Dead. Career ...

– vocals *

Garry Jennings Garry "Gaz" Jennings is an English musician best known for his work as the guitarist for doom metal band Cathedral. In addition, he has also worked as the guitarist of thrash metal band Acid Reign, punk rock band Septic Tank and heavy metal ba ...

– guitar, mellotron (tracks 1 and 5), piano (track 6) * Leo Smee – bass * Brian Dixon – drums

Technical personnel

* Kit Woolven – production, engineering * Doug Cook – assistant engineering * Noel Summerville – mastering * Antz White – art direction, design, digital image manipulation * Dave Patchett – cover painting * George Chin – band photographs

References

Cathedral (band) albums 1996 albums Earache Records albums {{1990s-metal-album-stub