Cardinal Sin (band)

{{Short description|Swedish metal band}}

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| name = Cardinal Sin

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| origin = Gothenburg, Sweden

| genre = Melodic black-death{{cite web |last1=ANDREW |first1=J |title=Blackened Melodic Death Metal: A History Lesson |url=http://www.metalinjection.net/lists/blackened-melodic-death-metal-a-history-lesson |website=Metal Injection |date=19 February 2015 |accessdate=25 July 2018}}

| years_active = 1995-1996, 2003-2006

| label = Wrong Again

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| current_members = Dan-Ola Persson
John Zwetsloot
Magnus "Devo" Andersson
Alex Losbäck
Jocke Göthberg

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Cardinal Sin are an extreme metal band formed in 1995Daniel Ekeroth: [https://books.google.com/books?id=jRRvfWp95FIC&pg=PA319 Swedish Death Metal]. Second printing. Brooklyn, NY: Bazillion Points 2009, p. 319. by ex-Dissection member John Zwetsloot. In 1996, they released a 4-track EP called Spiteful Intents, which featured a trademark classical composition by Zwetsloot. Having disbanded after the EP, they reformed in 2003 with a partially new lineup, but have yet to release anything beyond Spiteful Intents.{{Cite web |url=http://www.tartareandesire.com/bands/Cardinal_Sin/295/ |title=Tartarean Desires' entry for Cardinal Sin |access-date=2007-03-21 |archive-date=2009-09-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090924070532/http://www.tartareandesire.com/bands/Cardinal_Sin/295/ |url-status=usurped }}

Daniel Ekeroth described their musical style as "typical mid-90s death/thrash". Metal Hammer journalist Robert Müller wrote that since the group were focussed around the guitarists John Zwetsloot and Devo Andersson there were no doubts about the technical quality, though the EP's sound was "established and all to well-known".Robert Müller: Cardinal Sin. Spiteful Intents. In: Metal Hammer, no. 2, 1997, p. 61.