CRADLE OF FILTH

Release Year: 2006
Artist Origin: ENG
Style: majestic expressive vampyric black metal

second full-length [1996] of rapidly rising extreme metal supergroup with a clear, highly original vision shocks, excites, disgusts and inspires in equal measures, etching on thy vulnerable brain forever: infamous British six-piece start out their macabre gothic journey on this grandiloquent opus, enriched by intricate mesmerizing keyboard harmonies, developed in much higher quantities later on - epic and romantic nature of otherwise extreme compositions is constantly disrupted by twisted and shocking dynamic vocal range of Dani Filth, also featuring the genius of Sarah Jezebel Deva on lush soprano vocals, who rose to fame with this record, and even a war cry of Cronos [Venom] on the final Haunted Shores; recent European edition comes with twenty page booklet