Sad and mad? Scary? its just music, ain't exactly gonna hurt you. But anyway, saying that Cradle of the filthyness are abit shiz :&
I like Cradle of filth. I really love the lyrics coz they are so poetic and very gothic. The video for Nymphetamine is amazing coz it fits in with the song beautifully and i love it - and it had the ever amazing Liv Kristine from Theatre of Tagedy/ leaves' eyes in it! Peace and love xxxxxxx
well not scary I guess it's kinda the rythm, it's too agressive and it makes me feel angry. Don't ask why lol it's just like that.
That must have been From the cradle to enslave. Can't blame ya, freaked the hell out of me first (well, and second, and, um, third...) time I saw it. Well, technically Cradle of Filth aren't black metal anymore. They use a lot of traditional heavy metal riffage nowadays, though they certainly originated from symphonic black metal. I think their best album by far is Dusk and her embrace, their second full-length. Still largely black metal orientated with great melodies, varied songs and the whole album's just dripping with atmosphere. An amazing album. I have to admit I loooove Dani's vocals, quite unique and rather fitting. Overall I agree with Vulva Queen, but Dusk and her embrace is quite a masterpiece in my opinion.
I dig them all the way, dusk and her embrace is an awesome album, I personally like Midian a bit better though.
I LOVE Cradle Of Filth's earlier Gothic Romance music. Now that they've changed their style to go more 'mainstreem' than before, I don't really dig it. First song I EVER heard by them that got me hooked (and to today my favorite - not one other like it): Suicide And Other Comforts I pace, alone In a place for the dead Overcome by woe And here, I've grown So fond of dread That I swear it's heaven Oh sweet Mary, Dressed in grief Roll back the stone With these words scrawled in a severed hand Tears fall like shards of glass that band In rivers, like sinners Swept with me to join the damned A darkened sky The day that laughter died Fell swiftly into night And stayed within Her sight Staring at the knife Oh God, how easy now to sacrifice My life, to have Her with me So farewell to distant thunder Those inept stars I've worshipped under Fall father, their Father Lies in wait in flames below Whilst my love, a blood red flower Calls to me from verdant bowers Graveside, I cry Please save me from this Hell I know A darkened sky The day that laughter died Fell swiftly into night And stayed within Her sight Staring at the knife Oh God, how easy now to sacrifice My life, to have Her with me An eye for an eye as espied in the bible My faith is lost to the burning of idols One less cross to press upon the survival Of this lorded agony And I, (much as I have tried To bury Her from mind, Fate's tourniquet was tied, when She died...) Still sense Her presence so divine Lithe arms about my throat Like pining swans entwined Footfalls at nightfall close to mine Suicide is a tried and tested formula for release I snatch Her whisper like the wind through cedars See Her face in every natural feature Midst the mist and sleepy hollows of fever... With glee deceiving me Suicide is a tried and tested formula for release I hear Her voice from where the grave defies Her Sirensong to sing along, no finer Suicide notes, harmonised in a minor Strike a chord with misery No light nor reef No unsinkable of romance keeps me Safely from the stormy seas Now drowning, resounding Death-knells pound my dreams Unthinkable to dredge through this Listless and lonely winter frieze A darkened sky This day hereafter dies Falls swiftly into night And stays within my sight Staring at the knife Oh God, how ease it was to sacrifice My life, to have Her with me No more a victim of crusade Where souls are strung from moral palisades I slit my wrists and quickly slip away... I journey now on jewellwd sands Beneath a moon to Summerlands To grace Her lips with contraband The blaze once in my veins
Hmm, I don't know why, but Midian is probably my least favourite album. I can't really describe why. The music sort of lost its flow, which was already a bit the case with Cruelty and the beast. I also don't really like their debut much. I can't explain why. It's more or less pure black metal, but it just doesn't sound "right" to me. Not to mention they look absolutely NOT grim, something British black metal bands always seem to have trouble with. I haven't listened to their newer material a lot, heard some songs come by occasionally but never really "listened", it sounds more agressive than Midian (blastbeats are back) but it can't seem to recapture that genuine dark ambiance they seem to have lost since Midian. I do love their lyrics. Quasi-evil, very sexual and quite tongue in cheek, while always preserving a sense of mysticism. British bands always seem to focus on sex more lyrically. Horny bastards.
