Patterns, yay! I think the end of the year is making me crave shorter albums and greater efficiency—so yes, expect more of these in threes. Here’s “Evermore Darkly”, “Carbon-Based Anatomy”, and “Dromomania” for intensifying your holiday season.

Rating: 4/5
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Lilith is a cunt. That’s mostly what Cradle of Filth wants you to remember on their ninth studio effort, “Darkly, Darkly Venus Aversa”, which functions as somewhat of a feminine companion piece to the depraved masculinity found throughout “Godspeed on the Devil’s Thunder”.

A terrifying trio of tales with Metal mediation! Castle Bravo Productions and Mind Over Metal join forces, to twist stories of isolation, revenge, and plague with music from Cradle of Filth, Misfits, Grave, Type O Negative, Zombie Apocalypse, Dimmu Borgir, Rabbit Junk, and Church of Misery!

Cradle Of Filth - “Godspeed On The Devil’s Thunder” [Roadrunner] … detractors be damned, these guys are recording excellent material these days … no stranger to concept albums about the world’s most nefarious figures, they now embrace Gilles de Rais (aka Bluebeard), the French noble who once fought aside Joan of Arc before succumbing to unfathomable depravity, the depths of which include the rape and murder of possibly hundreds of children … CoF’s blackened roots reach deep into the annals of history, with Dani’s famous vocal range spitting and howling his Gothic poetry about this fallen monster over their lush symphonic [...read more]