Band:	Cardinals Folly
Album:	Our Cult Continues!
Style:	Doom metal
Release date:	August 19, 2014
A review by:	Doc G.

01. Chant Of Shadows
02. Morbid Glory
03. The Black Baroness
04. Our Cult Continues!
05. Sighisoaran
06. Walvater Unveiled
07. The Lover´s Crypt
08. Fallout Ritualist

I'm not going to lie, I've spent tens of minutes staring at that cover artwork, trying to decipher what in the hell is going on there. Unfortunately for Cardinals Folly, the cover artwork is more captivating, and leaves a longer lasting impression than the music.

That's definitely a pretty harsh way of opening the review, as Our Cult Continues! isn't bad. Not bad at all. It's like those little scotch mints every old person has in their house; you'll eat them if they're there, and enjoy every minute of it, but you won't be making any frantic midnight trips to the convenience store to pick up a bag. It's pretty standard doom metal. The general picture is to take the melancholic vocal delivery found in some My Dying Bride work, played with a sludgy Reverend Bizarre appeal...less the grandiose leads and memorable hooks in the riff work.

Pick a track, any track on the album. If you like doom, chances are you'll be pleased with what you hear. Listening to this album in its entirety is a pretty big drag, though. By the end of the second track, you know exactly what Cardinals Folly's game is, and unlike Reverend Bizarre, the amount of truly memorable riffs seem to decrease the deeper you get. "The Lover's Crypt" has a pretty dope groove to it, and the main lick for the title track might cause a little bit of doom-salivation, but still the overall impression remains a little dry. At no point in the remaining thirty-plus minutes are you going to sit up and say "holy shit."

Our Cult Continues! is not a regretful listen, but unless you're a die-hard doom fanatic who can pick out non-existent subtleties in particular doom bands, this one just sort of blends in with the many other bedroom doom albums out there.