CRADLE OF FILTH - Special Edition, Vinyl Versions Of New Album Detailed

September 12, 2008, 15 years ago

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In addition to the regular version of CRADLE OF FILTH's new album, Godspeed On The Devil's Thunder (due out on October 28 via Roadrunner Records), there will also be a special edition and vinyl release available. The complete tracklistings are as follows:

Special Edition (two-disc set featuring ten unreleased/rare bonus tracks and expanded artwork):

Disc 1: 'In Grandeur And Frankincense Devilment Stirs', 'Shat Out Of Hell', 'The Death Of Love', 'The 13th Caesar', 'Tiffauges', 'Tragic Kingdom', 'Sweetest Maleficia', 'Honey And Sulphur', 'Midnight Shadows Crawl To Darken Counsel With Life', 'Darkness Incarnate', 'Ten Leagues Beneath Contempt', 'Godspeed On The Devil's Thunder', 'Corpseflower'.

Disc 2: 'Balsamic And Anathema', 'A Thousand Hands On The Maid Of Ruin', 'Into The Crypt Of Rays', 'Devil To The Metal', 'Courting Baphomet', 'The Love Of Death' (Remix), 'The Death Of Love' (Demo), 'The 13th Caesar' (Demo), 'Dirge Inferno' (Live), 'Dusk And Her Embrace' (Live).

The double vinyl includes two tracks ('A Thousand Hands On The Maid Of Ruin' and 'Balsamic and Anathema') not available on the regular album and a code to download the entire album in MP3 format).

According to a press release, 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.

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-bejewelled floor."

The new track called 'Tragic Kingdom' is currently streaming on BW&BK;'s KnuckleTracks Online Audio Player - head to the left-hand-side of BraveWords.com to listen.



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