John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter & Daniel Davies - Cathedral 1LP Vinyl Album Release Date 7th August 2026

John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter & Daniel Davies - Cathedral 1LP Vinyl Album Release Date 7th August 2026

The closest thing to a new film from John Carpenter in years! Born from a dream, this is a narrative driven album. Designed as an interactive listening experience with track by track story prompts. Released alongside an original graphic novel, expanding the album into a unified audio-visual mythology. A heavier, riff driven evolution of the Lost Themes sound, blending synths, heavy guitars and drums into a darker score.

John Carpenter summons you to CATHEDRAL, where a hallucinatory world of dread and darkness festers under Los Angeles. This ambitious new album and Carpenter’s debut graphic novel unfold together as one terrifying vision.

Inspired by a nightmare he could not shake, CATHEDRAL follows a terrifying chain of murders tied to an abandoned church.

It was so cinematic and vivid, (the dream that inspired the story). I thought, ‘I have to score this.’ It’s kind of our first heavy metal album.

— John Carpenter

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

Sacred Bones Records 2026