Cryptoriana - The Seductiveness Of Decay Cradle Of Filth

1. Exquisite Torments Await
2. Heartbreak And Seance
3. Achingly Beautiful
4. Wester Vespertine
5. The Seductiveness Of Decay
6. Vengeful Spirit
7. You Will Know The Lion By His Heart
8. Death And The Maiden
9. The Night At Catafalque Manor
10. Alison Hell

For the last quarter of a century, Cradle Of Filth have assumed the role of dark metal diarists, exploring the amorphous horrors that lurk in humanity’s shadows and revelling in the opulence of mortal sin across centuries powered by bleak romance and a lust for the sensually grotesque.

Formed in England in 1991, Cradle Of Filth generated an immediate underground buzz with their early demos, before stamping their authority on the UK’s burgeoning black and death metal underground with their debut album, ‘The Principle Of Evil Made Flesh’, in 1994. A monstrous blend of ornamental terror and pummelling vitriol, it marked the band out as a unique proposition and one of few modern bands capable of driving heavy music forward while honouring its traditions. Not surprisingly, a combination of frontman Dani Filth’s insanely evocative lyrics and the intensely detailed and the compelling imagery that the band harnessed with great skill have since ensured that Cradle’s music has both endured and expanded over the best part of three decades.

Currently enjoying a collective creative renaissance that is driving them to new heights of elegant fury, the band - Dani, guitarists Ashok and Richard Shaw, bassist Daniel Firth, keyboard and vocal siren Lindsay Schoolcraft and mercurial percussive mainstay Martin Škaroupka - are more potent and devastating than ever before as they approach the release of their latest and perhaps greatest studio effort, ‘Cryptoriana: The Seductiveness Of Decay’. “This album represents an onwards and upwards drive for the band, building on the success of ‘Hammer Of The Witches’ and pushing further with the venomous musicology to create something that is both unique and loyal to our previous incarnations,” Dani Filth states. “Plus we covered ‘Alison Hell’ by Annihilator, a thrash metal classic that has been on our proverbial lips for centuries!”