CRADLE OF FILTH

Release Year: 2024
Artist Origin: ENG
Style: majestic expressive orchestral black metal

title of eleventh studio album [2015] is named after Malleus Maleficarum, a medieval document of guidelines regarding the persecution and torture of witches - it is arguably the most focused, absorbing and fearless album the controversial British band has produced at least in this millennium, marking a certain resurrection, hearkening back to their authentic sound of yore, when CoF name was inseparable from the terms of creative originality and exceptional quality, bringing back the duel guitar harmonies of old while retaining the primordial aggression and haunting atmosphere, that collides in a shower of bloody dynamic sparks within these eleven dramatic numbers, which stand out with bursting energy, dark theatricality, and an unrelenting ambition to unite classic black metal with gothic grandeur and contemporary tension; recent German gatefold sleeve double silver vinyl edition with pro-printed inner sleeves plus King of The Woods and Misericord bonuses on side D is strictly limited to 1000 units