Floortje Donia- vocals Koen Romeijn - guitars Kevin Storm - guitars Thomas Kalksma - Drums Luuk van Gerven - bass guitar
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Cardamon in the press;
"Cardamon sounds like Anathema, The Gathering and Katatonia, mixed with the musicality and precision of Opeth.....The level of this band is at a constant high" (OOR Magazine)
80/100 (nedermetaal.nl) 8/10 (metalstorm.ee), 4/5 Metal France
'You want a different taste of female fronted rock/metal? check out Cardamon!' (Wings of Death)
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Early 2004, Thomas Kalksma and Koen Romeijn from renowned metal band Detonation came up with the idea to form a new band. But not just another metal band, the general idea was to form a band in which Thomas and Koen could experiment with more mellow and laid back music and explore the rock genre as well aside from their usual heavy metal style. The decision to search for a "clean singing" vocalist was therefore easily made. The first ideas and song structures that were written, were obviously way too melancholic for typical metal vocals....;)
A short period of time later, the band ran into Floortje Donia, who knew Thomas and Koen from years before. Thomas was aware that Floortje had been singing in a band before, and asked if she was interested in joining the band. After doing a short try-out session with Floortje, it became obvious that this was going to work for the band.
During the following months, Thomas, Floortje and Koen came together a couple of times to work on basic songstructures and general song ideas. From these sessions, 3 melancholic songs were created and recorded at Thomas' home studio. Later on, the band recorded these 3 tracks at the Excess studios in Rotterdam, together with producer Hans Pieters. In the meantime the decision was finally made to name the band "Cardamon".
After a while, Thomas, Floortje and Koen started the difficult search for a suitable and qualified 2nd guitarplayer. Several guitarists auditioned and tried to fill the vacant spot, but in the meantime Cardamon managed to recruit Patrick Velis on bass guitar.
Bass player Patrick Velis joined the band, while the search for a 2nd guitar player was still going on. In March 2006 the band finally found a suitable guitarist in the person of Kevin Storm. With the addition of Patrick and Kevin, Cardamon set their minds on recording a full-length album in 2006, and doing as many shows as possible to gain experience in the live-circuit.
Right now, the debut full length album The Primrose Path has been recorded, mixed and mastered at Excess studios, Rotterdam. The album contains 11 melancholic and rock solid songs, with beautiful melodies, heavy riffs and powerful drumming, and the chanting voice of singer Floortje!
Meanwhile Patrick unfortunately decided to leave, and was eventually replaced by Luuk van Gerven of After Forever fame. The band is at full strength and is currently working on new material as well as focussing on live shows.
2009 marks the re-release of the album through independent record label "Femme Metal Records"The Primrose Path!
From June 21st our songs "Heaven Close At Hand", "Sweet Nothings" and "Hi-tech Lonelyness" are featured in "Dark Tower" compilation, out on Nomadism Records. The compilation is a special initative against the music piracy, is published in a special Digipack DVD format, contains tons of music, videos, bonus tracks and mp3s and is sold at the symbolic price of € 5,00 on Nomadism's website. Come and check it out!!! Thank you very much!!! Rock on!!!
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Wishing you all the best with the re-release, my copy is on it's way from Caz as we speak, hopefully! Maybe we'll meet on our European tour in September? (And maybe you can help us out with a gig as well?) Greetings from Norway.
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