| Cradle of Filth: free audio samples of new album available |
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 Free 30-second audio samples of all tracks that appear on CRADLE OF FILTH's new album, 'Godspeed On The Devil's Thunder', are available on Amazon.de.In addition to the standard version of "Godspeed On The Devil's Thunder" (due out on October 28 via Roadrunner Records), there will also be a special edition and vinyl released. See below for the complete track listing: Special Edition (two-disc set featuring 10 unreleased/rare bonus tracks and expanded artwork): Disc 1: 01. In Grandeur And Frankincense Devilment Stirs 02. Shat Out Of Hell 03. The Death Of Love 04. The 13th Caesar 05. Tiffauges 06. Tragic Kingdom 07. Sweetest Maleficia 08. Honey And Sulphur 09. Midnight Shadows Crawl To Darken Counsel With Life 10. Darkness Incarnate 11. Ten Leagues Beneath Contempt 12. Godspeed On The Devil's Thunder 13. Corpseflower Disc 2: 01. Balsamic and Anathema 02. A Thousand Hands On The Maid Of Ruin 03. Into The Crypt Of Rays 04. Devil To The Metal 05. Courting Baphomet 06. The Love Of Death (Remix) 07. The Death Of Love (Demo) 08. The 13th Caesar (Demo) 09. Dirge Inferno (Live) 10. Dusk And Her Embrace (Live) Vinyl (double vinyl includes two tracks not available on the standard album and a code to download the entire album in MP3 format): 01. In Grandeur And Frankincense Devilment Stirs 02. Shat Out Of Hell 03. The Death Of Love 04. The 13th Caesar 05. Tiffauges 06. Tragic Kingdom 07. Sweetest Maleficia 08. Honey And Sulphur 09. Midnight Shadows Crawl To Darken Counsel With Life 10. Darkness Incarnate 11. A Thousand Hands On The Maid Of Ruin 12. Ten Leagues Beneath Contempt 13. Balsamic and Anathema 14. Godspeed On The Devil's Thunder 15. Corpseflower The song "Tragic Kingdom" is available for streaming at the official COF Myspace.  "Godspeed on the Devil's Thunder" 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-bejeweled floor." |