Cradle of Filth - Godspeed On The Devil's Thunder(Special Edition 2 CD)
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Artist: Cradle of FilthEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Special Edition
CD Release Date: 2008-10-28
Music Label: Roadrunner Records
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- In Grandeur And Frankincense Devilment Stirs
- Shat Out Of Hell
- The Death Of Love
- The 13th Caesar
- Tiffauges
- Tragic Kingdom
- Sweetest Maleficia
- Honey And Sulphur
- Midnight Shadows Crawl To Darken Counsel With Life
- Darkness Incarnate
- Ten Leagues Beneath Contempt
- Godspeed On The Devil's Thunder
- Corpseflower
- Balsamic And Anathema
- A Thousand Hands Upon The Maid Of Ruin
- Into The Crypt Of Rays
- Devil To The Metal
- Courting Baphomet
- The Love Of Death (remix)
- The Death Of Love (Demo)
- The 13th Caesar (Demo)
- Dirge Inferno (live)
- Dusk And Her Embrace (live)
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Hit: 5 Stars
It seems I'm not alone in my thoughts on Godspeed On The Devil's Thunder.
Cradle Of Filth have returned to a sound more reminiscent of their days before becoming "popular" (which should not be seen as a bad thing) and Godspeed is their best effort since Midian, if not better. That's not to say that Damnation And A Day, Nymphetamine and Thornography are bad albums. Quite the opposite, actually. But Godspeed features COF utilizing the best of old and new. Musically, this album sounds more like Cradle of old (without being as brutal or as fast as possible), while Dani has retained the clearer (but rarely clean) vocals of the later releases. No Cradle Of Filth album has grabbed me quite like Vempire did when I first heard the band, though Godspeed and Cruelty And The Beast come close, followed by Midian.
As mentioned, the album tells the tale of Gilles de Rais, a man who served with Joan of Arc and supposedly lived a second life, dabbling in the occult and turning to mass murder later in his life. While Dani may have taken some liberties with the subject matter (as with Erzsébet Báthory on Cruelty And The Beast), Godspeed does a good job at telling the story, including the execution of Joan of Arc in 1431.
Lending his voice to Cradle Of Filth for a fourth time is Doug Bradley, who is best known for playing Pinhead in the Hellraiser movies. I thought his voiceovers were used too much and they seemed to be a bit of a distraction at times. Really, that's the only flaw I can find with Godspeed. Everything else is in its proper place.
As has been commonplace throughout most of Cradle Of Filth's career, not everyone from Thornography is around this time. Also, only four members (Dani, Dave, Paul and Martin) are listed in the liner notes as being full members of the band (and shown in the picture), although Charles and Rosie are also mentioned as the live guitarist and keyboardist respectively. Sarah Jezebel Deva is also featured on the album, though not considered a "core" member.
The second CD offers two more tracks that were recorded during the sessions but had to be cut from the final result due to length, two songs from Harder, Darker, Faster: Thornography Deluxe, a cover song, two demos, a remix (the weakest of the offerings on the bonus CD) and two live tracks. I'm hoping that since this was made available in the beginning, there won't be a re-release of this album within a year or so, an annoying trend in music today.
Highlights:
The Death Of Love
The 13th Caesar (it took a while though - the vocals on the chorus were a putoff for me at first)
Honey And Sulphur
Darkness Incarnate
Ten Leagues Beneath Contempt
All said and done, this is an excellent release from Cradle Of Filth, easily one of their better efforts. I'd give it four and a half stars if I could, only because of how I thought Doug Bradley's lines affected the album. However, that's not enough to drop it down to a four because I can't do halves.
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2 CD Special Edition. After 8 menacing albums, the kings of black metal return with their most dastardly tale yet. Chronicling the story of the world's first serial killer, French nobleman and soldier of Joan of Arc, Gilles De Rais. Like they had done with the story of Elizabeth Bathory, Cradle of Filth weave a tale of murder, the occult, and sinister deed around their trademark metal sound. Fueled by breakneck speed, crushing guitars, and haunting vocals- the band has delivered their hardest most aggressive and chilling piece yet. This is the 2CD special edition.Alternative Rock Music CDs
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