They began
as "The Coven" from 2004 to 2007, the Cardinals Folly come from
Finland and present us their latest work aptly titled "Strange Conflicts
of the Past", since this is a fine package of all of their early works and
arguably their very best material. The tracks 1-3 are from the "Heretic´s
Hangover" EP, which was released in early 2008 as the first release under
the name of Cardinals Folly. This release was just a few hundred copies and was
sold out pretty fast. They left out the last track of this EP, "Uncharted
Seas" because it was already on the debut album. They wanted to give some
unreleased stuff instead. Tracks 5-8 are from the "Orthodox Faces" EP
(2009), which also sold out quickly and received a notable welcoming in the
doom circle. Tracks 4-9 and 10 are unreleased tracks from the same era of these
two EP´s, also recorded in 2008-2009. Track 4 was featured on The Coven´s 2006
demo-EP "Beltane", but this version of the song is much better, as
it´s recorded in 2008 with the Cardinals Folly line-up.
I will not talk track-by-track, my approach
will be short, generic and `course libertine.
To this day
and to be honest I didn`t knew the band, when I received the promo for the
review I wasn´t expecting the surprise and my questions were: What the Fuck is
this? Who the fuck are they? Ian Curtis lives? Joy Division is active? Purists
may disagree… of course other influences could be attributed to Cardinals Folly
like Type O- Negative and Woods of Ypres but I’m going to follow my own line
here.
For a Joy
Division worshiper like me this is a great compliment and this likeness cannot
be pure coincidence, the Cardinals Folly treads the paths traced by The weird
tales of Howard, Wheatley and Lovecraft and their melancholic sound and
depressive melodies are the real mirror thereof.
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M. Karnstein Bass, Vocals
Sebbath Lindberg Drums
Juho Kilpelä Guitars
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If you're
looking for angst, this is the right place, here you can find a magnificent
work as a picture painted in black with splashes of blood, where it dominates
one profoundly painful dejection, cessation of interest in the outside world, loss
of capacity to love, inhibition of all activity, and a decrease in feelings of
self-esteem as to find expression in self-reproach culminating in a delusional
expectation of punishment. This picture becomes a little more understandable
when we consider that, the same traits are found in mourning.
My
libidinous relationship with "Strange Conflicts of the Past" has born
with the intro; the cue is given in the following words: "Time is now... Heed
the call... To enter Cardinals folly... One must be out of his mind..." and I
apologize to the band but the orgasm happens before the end, with "The
Model", wow, awesome, this original track from Kraftwerk (another of my
bands of choice and that saw me grow ...) and that also inspired the band Joy
Division, with the death of Ian Curtis and their transformation into New Order,
more than ever, that such inspiration was audible and ... visible. We can say
at last but not least "Transmission From the Mad Arab" is the music
of choice of the recovery room with a cigarette.
For those
who are confident of incertitude and the finitude of the things, for those who
pursue the melancholic path of the ephemeral time ... Overall this is a perfect
album for worshipers of melancholy and depressive Doom Metal.
A one
defunct refuses nothing, when I die Cardinals Folly will play and the burial
melody filling the air will be “The Model” again and again and again….
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1. Intro
2. The Right Hand of Doom
3. Rasputin (The Mad Monk)
4. Serpent Nights
5. Opening Ceremony
6. Blood Axis Raider
7. Cardinals Folly
8. They Found Atlantis
9. The Model
10. Transmission From the Mad Arab
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