Track Listing

1. Under Pregnant Skies She Comes Alive like Miss Leviathan
2. Dirge Inferno
3. Tonight In FLames
4. Libertina Grimm
5. The Byronic Man
6. I am the Thorn
7. Cemetery And Sundown
8. Lovesick for Mina
9. The Foetus of a New Day Kicking
10. Rise of the Pentagram
11. Under the Huntress Moon
12. Temptation

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #23853 in Music
• Released on: 2006-10-17
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Explicit Lyrics

Album Description
And so to 2006, where Cradle Of Filth find themselves in the enviable position of being in a league and class of their own. Having long since outstripped the achievements of their one-time contemporaries, the band is now firmly entrenched in a rich vein of form. The current line-up of Dani Filth, guitarists Paul Allender and Charles Hedger, bassist Dave Pybus and drummer Adrian Erlandsson is the most solid and powerful in the band's career and Thornography is the resounding, conclusive proof. With songs as brutish, bombastic and diverse as Libertina Grimm, Tonight In Flames, Cemetery & Sundown, I Am The Thorn, The Byronic Man (featuring HIM's Ville Valo on guest vocals) and a deranged cover of Heaven 17's '80s pop gem Temptation, the world's biggest and best extreme metal band have never sounded so exhilarating, so vital, so venomous.

About the Artist
Throughout the '90s, Cradle of Filth - led by vocalist, lyricist and crypt-crawling master of ceremonies Dani Filth - beavered tirelessly away, producing a series of peerless extreme metal classics that drew from an endless, dizzying array of inspirations and influences while always maintaining that instantly recognisable heart of filthy darkness. The brutal and brief Vempire mini-album and the lustrous, lascivious Dusk & Her Embrace (both 1996) began to reveal the band's great sonic range. Later taking into account the slithering concept piece Cruelty & The Beast (1998) and the Clive Barker-inspired Midian (2000) - not to mention their excursions into the visual realm of film and promo - the Cradle Of Filth sound showed itself to be a many-headed creature. It was one that took delight in confounding both the purists and the critics who continually assailed the band's motives and creativity even as their fan base expanded and their status soared. With a line-up that seemed to be constantly changing - thanks, perhaps, to the cobweb-encrusted revolving door that rumours suggest marked the entrance to the band's rehearsal space during this period - the music was never allowed to stagnate fresh blood and its revitalising effects remained a permanent weapon in the boys' macabre arsenal...

Customer Reviews

Cradle pulls a Metallica.
EWWWWW!!!!!!!!!
What a stinky mess this is.
Cradle's version of the "black" album from Metallica.
Cheesy sell out that won't work and here's why.
The album cover caters to hardcore cradle fans.
Sort of defeats the purpose of making a commercial album.
The average listener will take one look at the cover and turn away.
To those of us who have come to expect something spectacular from Cradle.
Well, I put the disc in and had to force myself to listen the whole way through.
Dreadful.
Start, Middle, Finish!
Let's hope Cradle wakes up from the $$$ dream and comes back to us.
Oh, and I gave it one star (because you have to) and because of the cover.
Just proves again, don't judge a book by it's cover.
AVOID!!!

best cd out of all of them
i play this cd everyday.even my 2 yr old loves it and headbangs to it. this is by far THE BEST ALBUM CRADLE HAS DONE THUS FAR.I love the whole entire cd. An yone who likes cradle or death metal, THIS IS A MUST HAVE!!!!

Awsome Album
This is a great album by Cradle. Best songs on it are Tonight in Flames, Foetus of a New Day Kicking, and Temptation. It may not sound like there older albums such as Midian and Cruelty but other wise it is still a good listen.