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Live By The Sword

by Cardinals Folly

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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Jewelcase CD with 12-page booklet. Soulseller Records, 2023.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Live By The Sword via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Black vinyl with a double-sided inner sleeve. Soulseller Records, 2023.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Live By The Sword via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Red vinyl with a double-sided inner sleeve. Soulseller Records, 2023.

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1.
Life Eternal 01:52
(instrumental)
2.
Cobblestoned alleys Where the thugs prevail Abandoned lost abbeys Cemetary rockers' fate Don't need guidance Been here far too long Though craziness and wisdom Have made me a deranged one For uninvited, there is much to fear With true leaders, worship all the life Body's a temple, dionysian shrine Love, life, hope - nowhere in sight Infidels defy We're born to ride or die And righteous will deny The fact we rule the night Infidels defy Born to ride or die As doomed psychos... Celebrate 'til dawn!!!! Drown in lakes of blood Drown in lakes of blood Drown in lakes of blood Drown in lakes of blood!!!!!
3.
Luciferian 06:09
The free mothercountry madmen In charge of their own lives Love raging in the streets with no morale Their joy and laughter - they are all we've got Under Luciferian Call That is all I understand Under Luciferian Call Visionary Maniacss And you thought that we'd stop - And fighting for our lives! I'd rather give up all and break my oath Before this journey'd see the night! Under Luciferian Call That is all I understand Under Luciferian Call Visionary maniacs This is our solution, let them die with doom! Breathing revolution right, until my mind is true! Tired of shit not killing me, yet only can stand tall! Strongholds I have built in me, embarrass all their law! Under Luciferian Call Under Luciferian Call Under Luciferian Call
4.
A seventh (rune) I know, if I see a fire Around the house of men I feel the tempt again No matter it burns so wildly I'm not here without trying Where the runes still live Priesthood of the Dark! Priesthood of the Dark! Priesthood of the Dark! Priesthood of the Dark! Passion has guide us Exalted our wine, thus Intoxication cured Eternal is the fire A long-lost desire Where the runes still live Priesthood of the Dark! Priesthood of the Dark! Priesthood of the Dark! Priesthood of the Dark! We need no reason To lead the dead heroes With more issues than you'd count Yet turn-on beyond doubt I believe I'll pass the test And whatever else comes yet In the darkest hour The pagan gods, are on my side Priesthood of the Dark...
5.
Lead your sacred cults Storming over yards Vomiting their soul down stairs - The Prince of nightly dares! Some day you all will hear The Child of Lavinny Shouting his father's name On top of Sentinel Hill! Idolators - not the witches, not my kind They're so rotten - locking horns with hell tonight I know we turned their cross, we shall again And Her Twins of Evil, you'll beware Lay the spell of 751 Free the great old one Torch the prison cell That's been your fathers hell We abhor your words Beware, this is no church! Outsider's clarity Innsmouth royalty
6.
Always danced on the graves, I've always loved their scent Reminds me how y'all waste, Your being on disgrace And any rules you knew, I despised and threw in flames Strong rivalry is better than weak game (I'll) Answer the call With the power to be their god Live by the sword And no posers will control! Somewhere in the world that sword is forged Waiting woman wild untamed That god of hers had left it's secret place For great coming of new age (I'll) Answer the call With the power to be their god Live by the sword And no posers will control!
7.
Ludovico 05:43
Filthy form of sin, lawless poisoning Men of fallen will, abiding sheeps within Kick on the gulliver, obsession for freedom Desire for every road, deep in my veins is bog Alas, my path is blocked, no tomorrow arrives Even feared no dark, I dropped the hammer hard You cannot fix my mind, too complex in this world Your wicked ways will fail, I belong to my dark lord Ludovico, this treatment ain't right Ludovico... Ludovico, won't bring me the sign Ludovico treatment's the night! Desire for every road deep in my veins is bog... This horrorshow´s mine We hail true crime Doomed, wicked and blind Against all life Ludovico, this treatment ain't right Ludovico... Ludovico, won't bring me the sign Ludovico treatment's the night!
8.
Sometimes speed is the ace of war Our riffs, the heavy metal law Quick galloping cries through the woods From the last bastion of doom We burn this land to dust Then cross to other fronts Before us, the black plague must end We're crushing the mellow feeble trends One of the last redoubts Extreme, sovereign and cruel One of the ultimate bastions Blues for Satan as their tune Strange times are for strange men And cryptic Rock 'n' Roll Our gnarly catharsis - Eternal calling!!! One of the last redoubts Extreme, sovereign and cruel One of the last bastions Blues for Satan as their tune Evil men who lay in wait Deprave the meek of blood Their murderous ambush saves Us all from dreaded lives For I am of the devil And lusts of him I'll do And where a puritan may walk Is our garden and our tomb

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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.

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FINNISH PSYCHOTIC HEAVY DOOM METAL CULT - originally formed as The Coven back in 2004, laughing at stoner/retro trends as Cardinals Folly since 2007.

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