 2009 saw him team up with frequent live collaborator Anneke van Giersbergen for the release of 'In Parallel' which saw them add their own unique touch to a number of their own songs as well as songs from other artists.In 2013 he collaborated with Joseph Geraci, whose discussions of his own near-death experience had been sampled for the Anathema track "Internal Landscapes" from the Weather Systems album in 2012.In getting permission for the sample Cavanagh had been put in touch with Geraci and discovered that he had since amassed a large amount of writing based on the event, an event that Cavanagh had become quite touched by since learning of it.