Cardinals Folly - Biography
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2009-
Biography
Just in case this band has someone passed under your radar, they are a doom metal band from Helsinki, Finland that used to be called The Coven. In 2009 they released an EP titled 'Orthodox Faces' that showed huge potential and was easily one of the best new bands to emerge in the doom metal scene in that year. A couple of years on they got signed to Shadow Kingdom Records and came of the woodwork with a 69 minute full-length album "Such Power is Dangerous!" (2011).
Being a Finnish band, I guess it is no big surprise that they sound a little like the late Reverend Bizarre and they certainly have their sabbathian traditional doom metal roots in check but rather than just recycling the same Sabbath formula, Cardinals Folly actually do something truly memorable with it. Cardinals Folly is one of those great bands which get too few attention from the actual overcrowded scene which tends to turn more and more into extreme or retro sounds and forsake more traditional METAL with guts and heart, melody and harmony!
This is classic Doom-laden Heavy Metal with many elements of the 80's - not just for the twisted melodic solos, some occasional high pitched screams typical of that period, but also for its rough epicness, tinged at times with a slight black metal nastiness. It´s HEAVY - but we´re not talking about amplifier worship stoner doom trend-heaviness here. We´re talking REAL METAL, in the vein of the metal masters BATHORY, CATHEDRAL, BLACK SABBATH, ELECTRIC WIZARD, REVEREND BIZARRE, VENOM etc...
Trends? Fuck trends. Cleaned-up retro? Fuck that, too. Cardinals Folly are following their own path while penning love notes to traditional forms. The bass tone is distinctive and it´s black pulse connects with the elder gods outside time and space. Their new sophomore album release, "Our Cult Continues!", has more gears than slow and low, similar to the way Cathedral countered the loud with the quiet, the slow with the fast, and the aggressive with the melodic. It has a taste for the strange, as well. The lyrics are Weird Tales fantastic. And Cardinals Folly aren't afraid to leave their tracks covered in dust.
Check out CARDINALS FOLLY and you will be surprised!!! Doom metal must not stagnate, it must be as exciting and interesting as it was back in the days of the metal gods! Everyone knows what doom metal is about, but not everyone fucks around with it in strange places. This band does! "Our Cult Continues!" is a doom metal album of the kind you have NOT heard yet, and thus you must do so!!!
Being a Finnish band, I guess it is no big surprise that they sound a little like the late Reverend Bizarre and they certainly have their sabbathian traditional doom metal roots in check but rather than just recycling the same Sabbath formula, Cardinals Folly actually do something truly memorable with it. Cardinals Folly is one of those great bands which get too few attention from the actual overcrowded scene which tends to turn more and more into extreme or retro sounds and forsake more traditional METAL with guts and heart, melody and harmony!
This is classic Doom-laden Heavy Metal with many elements of the 80's - not just for the twisted melodic solos, some occasional high pitched screams typical of that period, but also for its rough epicness, tinged at times with a slight black metal nastiness. It´s HEAVY - but we´re not talking about amplifier worship stoner doom trend-heaviness here. We´re talking REAL METAL, in the vein of the metal masters BATHORY, CATHEDRAL, BLACK SABBATH, ELECTRIC WIZARD, REVEREND BIZARRE, VENOM etc...
Trends? Fuck trends. Cleaned-up retro? Fuck that, too. Cardinals Folly are following their own path while penning love notes to traditional forms. The bass tone is distinctive and it´s black pulse connects with the elder gods outside time and space. Their new sophomore album release, "Our Cult Continues!", has more gears than slow and low, similar to the way Cathedral countered the loud with the quiet, the slow with the fast, and the aggressive with the melodic. It has a taste for the strange, as well. The lyrics are Weird Tales fantastic. And Cardinals Folly aren't afraid to leave their tracks covered in dust.
Check out CARDINALS FOLLY and you will be surprised!!! Doom metal must not stagnate, it must be as exciting and interesting as it was back in the days of the metal gods! Everyone knows what doom metal is about, but not everyone fucks around with it in strange places. This band does! "Our Cult Continues!" is a doom metal album of the kind you have NOT heard yet, and thus you must do so!!!