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Following Cradle of Filth’s golden age which began with the excellent ‘Principle of Evil Made Flesh’ and ended with the equally ambitious ‘Midian’ the band seemed paralysed by indecision. The mini-album ‘Bitter Suites to Succubi’ offered up a perplexing mixture of covers, new tunes and unnecessary re-recorded versions of old favourites while the follow up ‘Damnation and a Day’ was a bloated and largely irrelevant chapter in the band’s history. Sadly things would hardly improve for ‘Nymphetamine’, an album which displayed a similar lack of purpose before ‘Thornography’ saw the band slowly return to form.Everything changed with 2008’s astonishingly good ‘Godspeed and the Devil’s Thunder’, an album which saw the band belt out the best tunes they’d written since ‘Midian’. Returning to high concept, the band played to their considerable strengths and with a decent story to back their musical depravity, the album had a strong focus which was irresistible despite the fact that the band left Roadrunner following the album’s release amidst a blaze of recrimination (long-time fans of the band were always sceptical of Britain’s premiere black metal allying themselves with the home of Nickelback – proof, as if any were needed, that Roadrunner are not exactly staffed by music fans unmoved by commercial concerns). Now safely in the arms of the excellent Peaceville records, Cradle of Filth continue their upward trajectory with the astounding ‘Darkly, Darkly Venus Aversa’ which sees the band build upon the foundations laid by ‘Godspeed’ and excel themselves with a brutal, furious assault on the senses that could be the best thing they’ve recorded since ‘Cruelty and the Beast’.Opting for the vinyl version is a sensible option.
A beautiful gatefold that truly gives the best view of the stunning artwork, the album is pressed on 180gm coloured vinyl and housed in printed sleeves which offer up pictures and lyrics. While a box set also offers a gratifying experience for the fan, it is the ultra-limited, ultra-special vinyl version (which comes complete with a free download for those of you who just can’t tear yourselves away from digital formats) that we are reviewing.Opening with the baroque atmosphere of ‘the cult of Venus Aversa’, the band don’t break convention by building the introduction into the stupendously fast track rather than offering it as a separate entity. Easily the best opening since the still-awe-inspiring ‘thirteen autumns and a widow’, it offers everything that’s best about the filth – razor sharp guitars, insane keyboards, more blast beats than your head can stand and Dani’s depraved yelp which, remarkably, is still a multi-faceted thing of wonder. Lyrically, too, Dani is in fine form with his typically ornate prose printed on the record sleeves for those who struggle to decipher his animalistic grunts and groans.
With the band seemingly at the height of their powers it is of little surprise that the second track ‘one final step from the abyss’ maintains the ludicrous standard set by its predecessor. Opening with a darkly atmospheric keyboard section, it rapidly develops into a maelstrom of incredibly fast guitar and lyrical venom yet it is possessed of a dark groove and sense of control that keeps the track from ever sounding chaotic. Indeed, such is the quality of the production (ably overseen by Dani, Scott Atkins and Doug Cook with help from the legendary Andy Sneap) that every element is beautifully reproduced for the listener’s consumption, and even if yuo hate COF it’s impossible to say that they’re not talented. Side one ends upon the utterly brutal ‘the nun with the astral habit’ which sees Dani stretch his puns to breaking point while the band create a colossally fast soundtrack. It’s a good song but suffers by comparison to the first two tracks which are simply immense (and thus excellent album openers).Side two opens on a promising note with ‘retreat of the sacred heart’, a burning, erotically charged burst of guitar mayhem with a brilliant, thrash informed breakdown which sees the band slow the pace a touch for a chugging and awesomely heavy chorus.
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It is, in point of fact, a simply great metal song that combines all of those disparate elements CoF have hinted at with their covers of everyone from Anathema to Iron Maiden into a single, melodic, well-crafted chunk of metal. Next up is ‘the persecution song’ (perhaps written with the band themselves in mind given the amount of unfair flack they’ve had to dodge from tedious purists outraged by the notion that the band might actually be enjoying themselves) which is surely the band’s token single (it is so much in the vein of ‘the death of love’ that it could be its sequel), but then you have to forgive CoF their token ‘pop moment’ because in fairness they’ve been including them in their records at least since ‘Midian’ and they’re always great ways to sucker the unsuspecting into their dark world.
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Euromac notcher. The final contents of the special fan edition of CRADLE OF FILTH's new album Darkly, Darkly, Venus Aversa are now close to finalisation.As vocalist Dani Filth stated, this is will be, 'the best Cradle Of Filth release that we have ever created, the ultimate version of our ultimate album. For you, our loyal mortal appreciators.'