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Monday, July 28th 2008
CRADLE OF FILTH ANNOUNCE GODSPEED ON THE THUNDER AS NEW ALBUM TITLE
New York, NY: Mirror, mirror, on the wall. Who’s the blackest of them
all? Why, Cradle of Filth, of course. England’s most notorious and
nefarious metal band are gearing up to release their darkest, most
dastardly album of all, titled Godspeed on the Devil’s Thunder, for
Roadrunner Records on October 28. The album, which will have a special
edition with an extra disc and bonus material, arrives just in time for
Halloween, a holiday that fits Cradle of Filth’s blackened, ghostly
aesthetic.
The album is conceptual and is based on the well-documented, true-life
fall from grace of a shadowy historical figure named Gilles de Rais, a
wealthy French nobleman who was one of Joan of Arc’s brothers-in-arms.
He was best known, however, as a prolific serial killer who mixed
prayers with his nightly murders as well as an aspiring alchemist. He
was accused of a panoply of crimes, among them heresy, demonology and
kidnapping. There’s even an extreme fringe sect of historians who
question de Rais’ true status, with some convinced he was framed.
Regardless of viewpoint, leave it to Cradle of Filth to dissect de Rais’
biography, exploring subversive, inflammatory historical subject matter
in its lyrics, taking an unjaundiced look at a controversial figure in
European history, set to epic black metal music. The band profiled
Hungarian countess Elizabeth Bathory, who attempted to preserve her
youth by bathing in the blood of virgins, in the past and now moves
forward by framing their latest album around the story of de Rais.
Cradle of Filth’s vocalist Dani Filth elaborated on the album’s concept,
saying, “By far this is our most extreme, dramatic and deeply disturbing
album to date. The legend of Gilles de Rais has been given fresh,
vampyrical life in this conceptual meisterwerk, swathed in pitch-black
magic and a viciousness unsurpassed in the annals of Cradle history.
Screw what our detractors say, everyone who has heard this album has
bruised their jaws on the pentagram-bejewelled floor.”
The tracklisting for Godspeed on the Devil’s Thunder is as follows:
“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”
Cradle of Filth follows up 2006’s Thornography with a bigger, faster and
louder conceptual new album. The band retains their hard-earned
reputation as the best of the blackest with Godspeed on the Devil’s
Thunder.