![]() ![]() ![]() Now, that’s not to say that derivative material has no merit – if I were to spend my time only entertaining truly original innovation, my record collection would barely be in the double figures, not the triple-digit monstrosity that currently devours all and any available storage space. The problem is, you’ve heard it all before, and so have I. Nostalgic doom metal waltzes with the occult druidic ambience that so often bats its eye-lashes at the genre and engineers a purposeful immediacy that never seeks to deviate from the formula. To be clear, Deranged Pagan Sons is an objectively decent record. ![]() But its the deep devotion to fellow Fins, Reverend Bizarre, that informs Cardinals Folly’s identity to such a degree that I’m left to wonder if it is, in fact, an identity at all. This trio have wrung a career from the bones of many a doom luminary – tipping their hats, stylistically, to the likes of Cathedral and Saint Vitus, with strong, dry riffs and subtly mournful melodies. This is a question I find myself pondering whilst meandering through the trails of traditional doom that comprise Deranged Pagan Sons, the fourth release from Finland’s Cardinals Folly. We all know that imitation is supposedly the sincerest form of flattery, but where exactly is that flimsy line, where tribute slips into mimicry and thunders down that Jacob’s ladder, only to greet the ground with a limp thud, uniform and unremarkable. ![]()
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