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The Principle of Evil Made Flesh is Cradle of Filth's debut album, released in 1994. It is the most primitive-sounding of all their albums, though the production is slightly more refined than their demos. Dani Filth's vocals here bear little resemblance to his now well-established style.
The album is filled with barrages of guitars, drums and keyboards, and, along with Damnation and a Day, has more melodic instrumental tracks than the band's other albums. This album is much closer to black metal than any of Cradle's later works, and includes early lyrical examples of the vampirism themes which the band would further develop: particularly on Dusk and Her Embrace. Satanic and anti-religious lyrics are also more in evidence here than subsequently.
Additional vocals on "A Dream of Wolves in the Snow" are performed by Darren White.
Tracks from this album were re-recorded on Vempire or Dark Faerytales in Phallustein and Bitter Suites to Succubi.
The album did extremely well on the underground circuit, selling in excess of 32,000 copies.
Vempire or Dark Faerytales in Phallustein is Cradle of Filth's second official release, following The Principle of Evil Made Flesh. The title is a play on the words "vampire" and "empire". It was the band's final release for Cacophonous Records, and was hastily written and recorded for that label as a contractual obligation, before the band jumped ship to Music for Nations. Despite the circumstances of its release however, it was positively received by critics and its handful of tracks are staples of the band's live sets to this day. It is generally considered an EP rather than a full album. The back cover describes it as "a ritual comprised of six parts and having a duration of forty minutes".
Vempire has a cleaner, better produced sound than the band's debut, but retains the fast, highly technical instrumentation. Dani's vocals are also a lot clearer in the mix, and vary between a number of aggressive styles to give a more theatrical feel to the overall production. It includes a revamped version of the previous album's "The Forest Whispers My Name". Vempire is the first recording to feature backing vocalist Sarah Jezebel Deva.
"Queen of Winter, Throned" was listed among twenty-five "essential extreme metal anthems" in the issue of Kerrang! magazine dated October 7th, 2006. The song in question was an evolution of the song "A Dream of Wolves in the Snow" from their previous album.
All of the tracks on the album are original tracks, except for "The Forest Whispers My Name" which was a re-recorded track of the original which appeared on their debut album, The Principle of Evil Made Flesh.
Like its predecessor, Vempire was received well, selling roughly 70,000 copies.
Dusk... and Her Embrace is Cradle of Filth's second full-length album. The album differs greatly from the band's previous releases in terms of sound. The album is loosely inspired by the writings of Sheridan Le Fanu and many of the songs hint at vampirism, although vampires are not mentioned by name.
Orchestral sounds (although mostly synthesized) are more fully integrated into the arrangements here than on the previous two releases, although there are fewer purely instrumental tracks than on the previous full album The Principle of Evil Made Flesh. The album climaxes with a guest speech from Venom's Cronos on the final track, "Haunted Shores".
The album received widespread critical acclaim from critics and fans alike and sold over 500,000 copies worldwide.
The special edition of the album contain three bonus tracks: a cover of Slayer's "Hell Awaits", the instrumental "Carmilla's Masque", and a reworking of a Vempire track, "Nocturnal Supremacy '96".
The Digipack version has the extra track between track 4 and 5
4.5. Nocturnal Supremacy '96 - 5:58
Cruelty and the Beast is the third studio album by English extreme metal band Cradle of Filth. It is a concept album based on the legend of the Hungarian "blood countess" Elizabeth Báthory. The album features guest narration on certain passages by Ingrid Pitt in character as Báthory; a role she first played in the Hammer film Countess Dracula in 1971. Orchestral and symphonic keyboard elements are given more emphasis than previously, giving the music a darker and more morbid approach, and the album was well received on its release. Drummer Nicholas Barker would quit the band the following year to join Dimmu Borgir.
The track "Cruelty Brought Thee Orchids" has remained a staple of the band's live setlist since the album's release.
The album was also released in a limited edition with "Celtic Cross" packaging, and in a two-disc edition with five extra tracks:
(Click the word "Celtic Cross" to download the bonus disc)
From the Cradle to Enslave is an EP by Cradle of Filth. It contains two original tracks; the title track and "Of Dark Blood and Fucking". The rest of the disc consists of two cover versions and a re-recording of a track from the album Dusk and Her Embrace.
From the Cradle to Enslave was the first of Cradle of Filth's songs to have an accompanying video. The video was directed by Alex Chandon, who also made the film Cradle of Fear, starring Dani Filth. It featured explicit images of nudity and gore and was released in two versions, edited and unedited. Both versions can be found on the PanDaemonAeon DVD.
This was the first official Cradle release to attract the Parental Advisory warning.
Dani Filth revealed his antipathy towards the title track in Kerrang! issue 1130: "We have to play it at every gig... I'd like to erase it, so I wouldn't have to play it again. After a while you just want to play something different. There's something about the hook that just strikes a chord of fear down my spine."
The American release features Dawn of Eternity (Massacre cover) instead of Perverts Church.
Midian is the fourth studio album by Cradle of Filth, released on Halloween 2000. At the time it was considered their most commercial and accessible album to date. It is inspired by Clive Barker's novel Cabal and his subsequent film version Nightbreed, and Doug Bradley - who had a small role in the film but is better known as Pinhead from Barker's Hellraiser and its sequels — provides narration on some tracks. While keyboards remain prominent, Midian is more guitar-oriented than its predecessors. The cover art was created by JK Potter.
In the Bible, the Midianites are an Arab tribe descended from Abraham, and Midian itself is where Moses spent his forty-year exile from Egypt. The Midianites take their name, in the Bible, from Midian, a son of Abraham and one of his concubines. Today, the former territory of Midian is found through small portions of western Saudi Arabia, southern Jordan, southern Israel and the Sinai. The people of Midian are also mentioned extensively in the Quran, where the name appears in Arabic as Madyan. The Midian of Cabal and Nightbreed is a hidden city offering shelter for monsters away from humanity.
The song "Cthulhu Dawn" invokes the character from horror writer H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. Many other heavy metal bands — including Metallica, Morbid Angel, and Bal-Sagoth - have namechecked Cthulhu.
The opening line of "Lord Abortion" ("care for a little necrophilia, hm?") is a quote from Terry Gilliam's Brazil (voiced by Kim Greist in the film but delivered here by Toni King, Dani Filth's wife).
The title of the song "Amor E Morte" may be Portuguese for "Love and Death", or Latin for "Love from Death".
"Her Ghost in the Fog" spawned both a video directed by Alex Chandon (which received heavy rotation on MTV2 and other rock channels), and a sequel in Nymphetamine's "Swansong for a Raven".
Cradle of Filth's Bitter Suites to Succubi is essentially an EP - or "transitional mini album" as Dani Filth would have it - bridging the gap between Midian and Damnation and a Day while the band negotiated their label change from Music For Nations to Sony. It features only six new tracks (two of which are instrumentals), but is bolstered to album-length with three reworkings of songs from The Principle of Evil Made Flesh ("The Principle of Evil Made Flesh", "Summer Dying Fast" and "The Black Goddess Rises"), and a cover version. It was the band's first release on their own Abracadaver label. Uniquely in the band's canon, it features exactly the same band members as the previous album. This would be the last studio album to feature long-term bassist Robin Eaglestone.
"Dinner at Deviant's Palace" features a recording of Paul Allender's son reading The Lord's Prayer played in reverse.
On the special edition version of the CD, the track listing spells "Scorched Earth Erotica" as "Scorched Earth Erotics".
Lovecraft & Witch Hearts is a compilation album by Cradle of Filth. It is described in Dani Filth's sleevenotes as "a favoured grimoire of tracks coupled with the rare and unreleased, rather a 'mess of' than a 'best of'..." It was one of two releases in 2002 (the other being Live Bait for the Dead) and was designed to round off Cradle of Filth's contract with Music For Nations before their short-lived signing to Sony.
Disc One (Lovecraft) consists of album tracks from their Music For Nations back-catalogue. Disc Two (Witch Hearts) consists of extra tracks culled from limited and import editions of their MFN releases (e.g. the two-disc version of Cruelty and the Beast), along with some remixes.
Lovecraft
Witch Hearts (Click the word to download Disc II - Witch Hearts)
Live Bait for the Dead is a live album by Cradle of Filth, recorded at Nottingham Rock City on April 14, 2001. The same gig is included on the DVD Heavy, Left-Handed and Candid. Following the same format as Lovecraft and Witch Hearts, the main album is supplemented by a second disc of rare tracks and remixes. This would be bassist Robin Eaglestone's final recorded appearance.
A 2007 release by Peaceville Records combines the first disc of Live Bait for the Dead with the Heavy, Left-Handed and Candid DVD (minus the bonus features). The "eleven" of the title does not take into account the instrumentals "The Ceremony Opens" and "Creatures That Kissed in Cold Mirrors".
Disc 1 / Eleven Burial Masses (CD and DVD)

Disc 2 (Live Bait for the Dead only - Click "Disc 2" to download)
Damnation and a Day: From Genesis to Nemesis is the fifth studio album by Cradle of Filth. It features the 40-piece Budapest Film Orchestra and 32-piece Budapest Film Choir, is partly based on John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost, and was Cradle's only full-length release for the major label Sony before they transferred to Roadrunner Records.
Narration on the first track of each section is by David McEwen, who played Kemper in Cradle of Fear and appeared in the video for Her Ghost in the Fog, miming Doug Bradley's vocals.
This is the first Cradle album to feature only one full-time guitar player, as original guitarist Gian Pyres quit the band shortly before the writing and recording process. Keyboardist Martin Powell played session guitars for the album.
In addition to the Miltonic arc the album also features stand-alone tracks such as the Nile tribute "Doberman Pharaoh" and the Aleister Crowley-influenced "Babalon AD (So Glad For The Madness)".
The album spawned two DVD singles for the songs "Babalon AD (So Glad For The Madness)" and "Mannequin". The former was directed by Wiz (who had previously worked with Marilyn Manson), and was modelled on Pier Paolo Pasolini's notorious film Salò; an adaptation of the Marquis de Sade's The 120 Days of Sodom. The latter, reminiscent of the films of Jan Švankmajer, was directed by Thomas Mignone, and featured stop motion animation by George Higham.
Their cover of Cliff Richard's Devil Woman was originally recorded during the Damnation and a Day recordings, but only surfaced on the special edition of Nymphetamine in 2005, re-recorded and with some of the lyrics altered (feminine ways became nymphetamine ways). This was because the band were unhappy with the original recordings they did of the track.
I. Fantasia Down
II. Paradise Lost
III. Sewer Side Up
IV. The Scented Garden
Nymphetamine is the sixth studio album by Cradle of Filth, released on September 28, 2004. Nymphetamine marks the first and last appearance of guitarist James Mcilroy (as "Germs Warfare") on a Cradle of Filth album.
The title is a portmanteau of "nymphomaniac" and "amphetamine", and Dani Filth explained the track itself as referring to "a drug-like addiction to the woman in question, with her insidious vampyre qualities literally bringing her lover back from the brink of the spiritual grave, only to bury him further on the strength of a whim. The album is written in the style of Edgar Allan Poe's works, and leaves one thinking that, despite the character's inner agonies, he is really a welcome submissive who readily enjoys the terrible highs and lows of his relationship with this alluring and filthy, depreciative succubus."
It was nominated for a 2005 Grammy award in the Best Metal Performance category, and appears on the album twice; in a three-part, nine minute version -"Nymphetamine (Overdose)" - and again in a shortened five minute version - "Nymphetamine Fix" - as a bonus track. A video was released for the "Fix" version, and this track also appears on the soundtrack for the film Resident Evil: Apocalypse (without its suffix).
"Coffin Fodder" is mentioned in episode four of the UK comedy The IT Crowd, it is however referred to as 'track 4' when in reality it actually is track 9 on the album. "Swansong for a Raven" is a sequel to the Midian song "Her Ghost in the Fog".
The album features guest appearances by ex Theatre of Tragedy and current Leaves' Eyes vocalist Liv Kristine, and Doug Bradley, who starred as the cenobite Pinhead in the Hellraiser series and also collaborated on Midian.
It was re-released as a special edition in 2005, with an extra disc featuring two new songs, an alternate version of the title track, three cover songs, a guest appearance by King Diamond and a CD-ROM of the "Nymphetamine" promo video.
Nymphetamine debuted at #89 on the Billboard Top 200 chart selling 13,818 copies.
Specal Edition Bonus Disc (Click the word "Special Edition Bonus Disc" to download)
"Devil Woman" features King Diamond on backing vocals.
Dani Filth explained the album's title thus: "This title represents mankind's obsession with sin and self. The thorn combines images of that which troubled Christ, the Crown of Thorns, thus intimating man's seeming desire to hurt God and also, of the protecting thorn and the need to enclose a secret place or the soul from attack. An addiction to self-punishment or something equally poisonous. A mania. Twisted desires. Barbed dreams. A fetish. An obsession with cruelty. Savage nature. Paganism over Christianity. The title can also represent a sexual attraction to religious iconography as in the case of the 'possessed' Loudun nuns. I like the title because to me it invokes images of a darker, sexier pre-Raphaelite scene wherein Sleeping Beauty's castle is won and she is awoken by a poisonous kiss. A darker, more adult fairytale." Paul Allender told Terrorizer magazine, "There are quite a few guitar solos on this album. To be honest, I've never really classed myself as a lead player as such, but this is the first time I've sat down and seriously practiced lead work. I've been so involved in actually writing new material and coming up with song structures that I haven't had time to practice all the frilly things that go on top of it. Up 'till now, there hasn't really been much room for guitar solos as such. The riffs we write, they're not riffs that are meant to be soloed on top of. They're melodic within themselves. But I'm a great believer that less is definitely more. I love listening to all the shreddy, widdly stuff, but I have no interest in playing it. This new album is quite guitar-orientated. The last album was, but this is definitely more melodic. Dare I say it, there are quite a lot of typical Maiden-esque harmonies in there." In news posted on the official Cradle of Filth website in mid May 2006, it was revealed that the planned artwork for Thornography had been vetoed by Roadrunner Records. A replacement was soon forthcoming, although numerous CD booklets had already been printed with the original image. Dani Filth stated in an interview with Metal Hammer that the controversy was over the nakedness of the female figure's legs on the original cover: "When we put the original next to the new version, it was so slightly changed... The nymph's skirt was a little longer. It was like a game of spot the difference". Charles Hedger told Gothtronic.com that the new cover "is practically the same... A lot of Americans are really religious and Roadrunner were basically saying that Wal-Mart was not going to take Cradle albums with that on the cover. But Wal-Mart never takes Cradle albums anyhow, so it doesn’t make any difference." Three cover versions were recorded during the album's sessions, namely Samhain's "Halloween 2", Shakespears Sister's "Stay", and Heaven 17's "Temptation". "Halloween 2" (renamed "HW2") was released on the Underworld: Evolution soundtrack. It is included as a bonus track on the Japanese release of the album. "Temptation" is part of Thornography's finalised track listing, and features vocals by Dirty Harry. Harry also stars in the promo video for the track, which was released a week before the album as a digital single. "Stay" surfaced in early 2008 on the Harder, Darker, Faster re-release (see below). Press releases by both Liv Kristine and Cradle themselves announced that "Stay" would be Kristine's second guest vocal spot with the band (following "Nymphetamine"). Adrian Erlandsson later confirmed however that the duet never actually took place, although versions were recorded with both Harry and Sarah Jezebel Deva. The latter is the version included on the re-release. Early reports during the album's production process mentioned a track called "The Flora of Nightfall, The Fauna of War". It is unknown which track this was the working title for, although the words appear as a lyric in "Cemetery and Sundown". The album was leaked to p2p and torrent internet sources a month before its official release date. Thornography debuted at #66 on the Billboard Top 200 chart selling nearly 13,000 copies.
Thornography is the seventh full-length studio album by Cradle of Filth released through Roadrunner Records in October, 2006. The album is produced by Anthrax guitarist Rob Caggiano and mixed by Andy Sneap, and once again features narration by Doug Bradley (as with Midian and Nymphetamine).
In a September 2007 interview from the band's official MySpace page, Dani Filth revealed details of a forthcoming Thornography special edition. Harder, Darker, Faster: Thornography Deluxe is a CD/DVD package; the original album in standard stereo format on CD and DVD, with the following additional bonus tracks:
Thornography Deluxe also includes the entire album in mp3 format, live footage taken from Philadelphia and Worcester, a mixing feature for the tracks "Lovesick For Mina" and "Under Huntress Moon", and the promotional videos for "Temptation", "Tonight in Flames" and "The Foetus of a New Day Kicking". Original plans to include "Mater Lachrymarum" from the soundtrack to Dario Argento's The Mother of Tears were scrapped due to rights issues.
On November 06, 2007, Dani Filth spoke about the new tracks in the magazine BW&BK:
Godspeed on the Devil's Thunder (subtitled The Life and Grimes of Gilles de Rais) is the eighth studio album by English extreme metal band Cradle of Filth. It is a concept album, based on the life of the infamous 15th century French nobleman Gilles de Rais, who fought alongside Joan of Arc and accumulated great wealth before becoming a serial killer, sexual deviant and Satanist, and was released on October 27, 2008 by Roadrunner Records. A special edition containing bonus material has also been released. Once again, Doug Bradley provides narration for the album (as with Midian, Nymphetamine and Thornography). The title of the album derives from a valediction vocalist Dani Filth once used to sign a letter.
The album debuted at #48 on the Billboard Top 200 chart with sales of a little over 11,000 copies.
Special Edition bonus disc (Click the word "Special Edition bonus disc" to download)
Tracklist
Darkly Erotic
Dawn of Eternity (Massacre Cover)
Chewing on your Guts
So Violently Sick
Funeral
Babalon A.D. (So Glad for the Madness) is a DVD by Cradle of Filth.
The video is an homage to Pier Paulo Pasolini's notorious final film Salò. Babalon is not a mis-spelling of Babylon, but refers to the "Scarlet Woman", "Great Mother" or "Mother of Abominations" from Aleister Crowley's mystical system ("Mother of Abominations" is also the name of track 13 on Cradle's Nymphetamine album).
The video begins with a closeup of Dani Filth's face hidden in the shadows. The camera cuts to a young female maid in a restroom who notices a digital camcorder, sits down in a toilet stall and looks at the camera for any footage present. The video on the camcorder shows the Cradle of Filth band members in something like an empty dance hall, sharply dressed, systematically abusing and humiliating half a dozen young men and women, while Dani directs proceedings with a megaphone. Near the video's end, Dani is seen looking at himself in an antique mirror, which he then spins around and points at the camera operator, revealing that the maid herself was recording the band's activities. In the restroom, the maid looks horrified. We then cut back to the torture room, now vacant and poorly-lit, to find the maid alone with the libertine tormentors, and forced into a chair as Dani takes the camera and another band member takes a director's clapperboard labelled "Pandora's Box." The young lady weeps as she is taunted, yelled at, and ridiculed. Back in the bathroom, the footage on the digital camcorder cuts off and the maid looks up with terror etched on her face. The video ends with a static-filled picture.
Tracklist (Click the word "Tracklist" to download)
Dawn of a Golden Age (Dani Filth on Vocals)
Splattered in Faeces (Only Surviving Goetia Track)
Lovesick for her... (Remixed by Silent)