John Carpenter announces new project Cathedral

John Carpenter has announced a new audiovisual project, Cathedral. On August 7, Carpenter, with collaborators Cody Carpenter and Daniel Davies, will release the new album via Sacred Bones. Cathedral is a soundtrack that ties in with a new graphic novel, also titled Cathedral, which will be released August 4. The first single is “Lord of the Underground,” which you can hear below.

“I thought, ‘I have to score this.’ It’s kind of our first heavy metal album,” Carpenter said in a statement.

“The story informed everything,” Davies added. “John would describe a scene and say, ‘We need a heavy riff here.’ We didn’t set out to make a metal record, but it evolved that way.” 

Read our 2021 feature, Passion and Freedom in Music: An interview with John Carpenter.

John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter and Daniel Davies Cathedral tracklist:

1. Primeval
2. Identity
3. Inside Out
4. Abandoned Cathedral
5. Elevator
6. Elevator Two
7. Desolation in the Underworld
8. The Mapmaker
9. The Ferryman
10. Lord of the Underground
11. Death of the Mapmaker
12. Back to Ruins
13. Revenge
14. Resolution