Post by Deamonic Angel on Apr 5, 2008 15:42:31 GMT
Cradle of Filth Thornography Review
Since their creation in 1991 out of Suffolk, England Cradle of Filth has taken the world by force. All you have to do is step outside and you will be sure to see Cradle of Filth t-shirt adorned kids just about everywhere, which further goes to show why Metal Hammer Magazine labeled COF as the most popular English metal band to hit the market since Iron Maiden. Their visual macabre of gothic horror/vampirism/and just pure evil is rivaled by few as they sit perfectly upon that throne. Their musical progress from their debut Cacophonous '94 release Principle of Evil Made Flesh to albums such as Dusk and Her Embrace (Fierce Records, 1996) and Cruelty and the Beast(Mayhem Records, 1998) is unlike any other band in their genre. They were one of the few bands that offered a different approach to their concept albums and their sound with every release, and hey any band that can put out shirts of nuns masturbating and the slogan "Jesus is a thingy" is one band to take notice of. If not for anything more then to watch them give people like Jerry Farwell a complete stroke/heart attack. In 2004 Dani Filth and company found a new home on Roadrunner Records with their release Nymphetamine, and was even nominated for a Grammy. Now they have come back with their sounds of insanity with 2006's Thornography.
So all of you fellow Cradle of Filth fans will be happy to know this album is wrapped in concept art that follows COF's traditional dark and depraved imagery. The intro to the album Under Pregnant Skies She Comes is classic COF dark and gothic styled keyboards. However that is where similarities end, the album's guitar work has to be at it's best production for the band since it's inception. Songs such as Dirge Inferno, Tonight in Flames, and The Foetus of a New Day Kicking have an almost thrash metal taste to it, and in a much clearer layout then previous releases. My own favorite track on the album Lovesick for Mina combines raw adrenaline rushing speed metal with different landscapes of melodic metal, done in such haunting fashion it could only be Cradle of Filth. Thornography does not simply stop it's evolution with the guitar work, Dani Filth's vocals are constantly taken in different directions. Dani has without a doubt uses a great deal lower end vocals on this album, but also incorporates different operatic vocals in his own style, best shown through the track The Byronic Man. Overall this album was in many ways a evolution of COF's sound that we have all come to love, and in whole most of these experiments do actually payoff very well. I will warn you some of Dani's new approaches might have to grow on you, I know I had to listen to it several times before fully appreciating. I would have to in the end recommend this album, as there is nothing more inspiring then seeing an old favorite experiment with different sounds and make it work, as well as remain true.
Since their creation in 1991 out of Suffolk, England Cradle of Filth has taken the world by force. All you have to do is step outside and you will be sure to see Cradle of Filth t-shirt adorned kids just about everywhere, which further goes to show why Metal Hammer Magazine labeled COF as the most popular English metal band to hit the market since Iron Maiden. Their visual macabre of gothic horror/vampirism/and just pure evil is rivaled by few as they sit perfectly upon that throne. Their musical progress from their debut Cacophonous '94 release Principle of Evil Made Flesh to albums such as Dusk and Her Embrace (Fierce Records, 1996) and Cruelty and the Beast(Mayhem Records, 1998) is unlike any other band in their genre. They were one of the few bands that offered a different approach to their concept albums and their sound with every release, and hey any band that can put out shirts of nuns masturbating and the slogan "Jesus is a thingy" is one band to take notice of. If not for anything more then to watch them give people like Jerry Farwell a complete stroke/heart attack. In 2004 Dani Filth and company found a new home on Roadrunner Records with their release Nymphetamine, and was even nominated for a Grammy. Now they have come back with their sounds of insanity with 2006's Thornography.
So all of you fellow Cradle of Filth fans will be happy to know this album is wrapped in concept art that follows COF's traditional dark and depraved imagery. The intro to the album Under Pregnant Skies She Comes is classic COF dark and gothic styled keyboards. However that is where similarities end, the album's guitar work has to be at it's best production for the band since it's inception. Songs such as Dirge Inferno, Tonight in Flames, and The Foetus of a New Day Kicking have an almost thrash metal taste to it, and in a much clearer layout then previous releases. My own favorite track on the album Lovesick for Mina combines raw adrenaline rushing speed metal with different landscapes of melodic metal, done in such haunting fashion it could only be Cradle of Filth. Thornography does not simply stop it's evolution with the guitar work, Dani Filth's vocals are constantly taken in different directions. Dani has without a doubt uses a great deal lower end vocals on this album, but also incorporates different operatic vocals in his own style, best shown through the track The Byronic Man. Overall this album was in many ways a evolution of COF's sound that we have all come to love, and in whole most of these experiments do actually payoff very well. I will warn you some of Dani's new approaches might have to grow on you, I know I had to listen to it several times before fully appreciating. I would have to in the end recommend this album, as there is nothing more inspiring then seeing an old favorite experiment with different sounds and make it work, as well as remain true.