Catherine Wheel’s “Black Metallic”

An old press pic of Catherine Wheel, circa 1992, for their debut album "Ferment."
Earlier today, as I was leaving work, I ended up in a conversation about bands from the late '80s-early 90s.  I contributed a few names, which I'll get into after this post. But one of the acts that came up was the British shoegaze band Catherine Wheel - shoegaze referring to wall-of-sound guitar bands with …