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The Last Bastion of Doom. Those Finnish witchfinders. The ones that won't let go. The truest of the true. The stubbornest of the stubborn. Cardinals Folly. A groovy trio of which name has been echoing distantly in the metal underground for more than a decade. A wild uncontrollable force moving onwards to another record or another adventure. With relentless riffs, heavy metal hails, ride-or-die attitude and true love for the old school doom and metal.
On "Live By The Sword", the band takes almost all that it finds good in metal and molds it into a tighter mass of unholy riffs, blasphemous pagan chants & choruses, luciferian & lovecraftian depravity and all in all a fearless ride to where the witching cauldrons boil hot and the brews are cool. Ranging from slow epic doom to galloping heavy metal and apocalyptic rock 'n' roll, the band loves to murder the listener with all their might, resulting in this 42-minute onslaught of doomed heavy metal.
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released October 27, 2023
Cardinals Folly Lived By The Sword at Soundwell Studios, January 20-22, in the year 2023 after bastard's birth. Recorded and Mixed by Jani Snellman.
Mastered by Janne Hakanen in February 2023.
Cover art by Witchaser Art.
Band logo by Sebastian Lindberg.
Organ in "Life Eternal" played by Jani Snellman.
Backing choir in "Luciferian" is Mikko & Juho.
All music by Mikko Kääriäinen & Juho Kilpelä.
All lyrics by Mikko Kääriäinen.
Arrangements by Cardinals Folly.
supported by 32 fans who also own “Live By The Sword”
Solid trad-doom offering from the followers of Reverend Bizarre, The Wandering Midget, and Spiritus Mortis, with some punk vibes mixed in for good measure. Bronan The Duderian
supported by 27 fans who also own “Live By The Sword”
The band play a spectacular heavy style of Doom Metal that may sound theatrically at times. It is a stunning and beautifully well-crafted album that will appeal to both long-time fans of the band and the casual doom metal fan. Stephan
supported by 21 fans who also own “Live By The Sword”
The best way to sum this up is to quote Mikko from his introduction in Indianapolis for Doomed and Stoned: "We are Cardinals Folly, we are from Finland, and we play doom metal." Truer words have not been uttered, my friend. Colin M.