Cardinals Folly - Our Cult Continues! - review
Cardinals Folly - Our Cult Continues! - review
Tracklist
01. Chant Of Shadows02. Morbid Glory
03. The Black Baroness
04. Our Cult Continues!
05. Sighisoaran
06. Walvater Unveiled
07. The Lover´s Crypt
08. Fallout Ritualist
A review by
Doc G. August 14, 2014
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.
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Lol, I knew exactly where that last link was going before clicking on it. Nice review man.
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It's a female fire-eater and a bunch of minstrels entertaining a goat cardinal. But the goat doesn't seem to like it, and looks like he's disappointed in those people. Scene from everyday life.
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Posts: 4326 Written by Ilham on 15.08.2014 at 02:45 Yup, especially that three-eyed octopus.
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Extremely average band who try to sound like Reverend Bizarre but fail dismally at it and the vocals are extremely grating and weak. Btw the only band member who plays on this album and the previous e.p.'s and full-length is the vocalist/bass player.
---- Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.) 05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996 
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Comparing MDB and RB mixing is I dnt know, I don't hear anything and I disagree whit MH about this band onlky I agree its not RB, but good doom,
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Wait, is someone saying this sounds like reverend bizarre while other is saying it sounds like fucking drudkh? this could turn out to be an interesting listen
---- "Aah! The cat turned into a cat!" - Reimu Hakurei
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Posts: 40071 Written by Karlabos on 05.06.2016 at 01:08 This is pure trad doom in the vein of RB and has nothing to do with Drudkh at all. Whoever said that has clearly not heard anything by Cardinals Follly.
---- Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.) 05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996
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Posts: 5826 Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 05.06.2016 at 01:21 Yeah, I listened to a bit of this album and it's indeed traditional doom. I get where his "Drudkh riff" comment is coming from but it's quite not like that. Vocals were a major turn-off though
---- "Aah! The cat turned into a cat!" - Reimu Hakurei
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Posts: 64501 Written by Karlabos on 05.06.2016 at 01:31 Just read it , gosh some say I am idiot here, but I don't hear and druth bm riffs at all, pure 100% traditional doom metal
---- I stand whit Ukraine and Israel. They have right to defend own citizens. Stormtroopers of Death - "Speak English or Die" I better die, because I never will learn speek english, so I choose dieing
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