Name: Cryptoriana - The Seductiveness Of Decay
Brand: Cradle Of Filth

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CD 613805

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Limited edition

Release date

2017-09-22

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WEA /­ ADA

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Sales:8.875

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727361380502

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

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Cradle Of Filth

Genre US

Metal

Label US

Nuclear Blast

<p>Cradle of Filth is a dark/extreme metal band from Suffolk, UK. Founded in 1991, they are known for their unique blend of death, black, gothic and symphonic metal. Influenced by Gothic literature, poetry, mythology and horror films, their music defies easy classification. Fronted by Dani Filth since the beginning, the band has seen several line-up changes over the years. With their current members including Marthus on drums and keyboard, Daniel Firth on bass, Ashok on guitar and Donny Burbage and Zoe Marie Federoff providing additional guitar and keyboard/vocal support respectively.</p>

A monstrous tour-de-force of utterly distinctive but reassuringly destructive heavy fucking metal, laced with spectral disquiet but delivered with muscular aplomb, Cryptoriana was conceived during the summer of 2016 as Cradle Of Filth convened in Ashok and Škaroupka’s native Czech Republic, before being meticulously pieced together by the band and now long-time producer Scott Atkins back in the UK during the first half of 2017. From the exhilarating melodrama of opening two-fisted salvo ‘Exquisite Torments Await’ and ‘Heartbreak And Seance’ onwards, the twelfth Cradle album manifestly represents yet another wild expansion of the band’s sonic manifesto across nine epic and elaborate new anti-hymns and, as Dani mentions, a fervent blast through Canadian thrash legends Annihilator'ss ageless ‘Alison Hell’. From ‘Achingly Beautiful’’s synapse-scorching holocaust of the heart to the flesh-ripping, thrash-driven grandeur of ‘Wester, Vespertine’ and the pitch-black lysergic gargoyle attack of ‘You Will Know The Lion By His Claw’, Cryptoriana is simply the most musically and visually startling record in Cradle's history; one that grittily upholds the band’s tradition of conjuring warped narratives that linger long in the memory.

“The album, both lyrically and artistically, is infused with Victorian gothic horror and thus the title is a reflection of that,” Dani explains. “Cryptoriana implies the Victorians’ infatuation with the supernatural, the grave and the fervently ghoulish. The subtitle, »The Seductiveness Of Decay«, further cements the attraction to death and the glittering lengthy process of self-annihilation. To immerse myself in the subject matter and courtesy of his good friend H.G. Wells, I built a time machine and went to live amongst the clandestine underworld of late Victorian England…”

Cryptoriana - The Seductiveness Of Decay

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