Written by Slayer666 on 30.09.2010 at 14:25

Written by MétalNoir on 30.09.2010 at 02:40

Lilith Immaculate and Forgive Me Father are both fuckin' weird. They're too fluffy to my taste, where Godspeed was mostly solid and in-your-face. Here the symphonies are weak and mellow, the vocals are blah (c'mon why not discard black metal vocals to that point? Rhapsody has more terrific vocals nowadays...) and the tempo is too slow. Grow some balls and break our teeth with powerful tracks like Tragic Kingdom or Shat Out of Hell! Well, I guess I'll have to listen to the entire album before making judgements but to date I'm not in the least bit impressed, I must say.

Meh, Lilith Immaculate horrified me at first (fluffiness), but it grew on me after a couple of listens. But Forgive Me Father is just.... shit. Reminds of Scorched Earth, only much less catchy.
And what the fuck is up with Dani's image? He looks like the Mad Hatter from "Alice in Wonderland"... Jesus....

Ha ha that's so true, he really looks like Johnny Depp in that movie (who himself looked like Madonna...)! There's something very Tim Burton-esque about the whole album concept and from what I've heard the gothic side of CoF seems to be overwhelming their BM side, particularly Forgive Me Father.

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Very uninspired and boring in my opinion...

Written by MétalNoir on 30.09.2010 at 18:27

Written by Slayer666 on 30.09.2010 at 14:25

Written by MétalNoir on 30.09.2010 at 02:40

Lilith Immaculate and Forgive Me Father are both fuckin' weird. They're too fluffy to my taste, where Godspeed was mostly solid and in-your-face. Here the symphonies are weak and mellow, the vocals are blah (c'mon why not discard black metal vocals to that point? Rhapsody has more terrific vocals nowadays...) and the tempo is too slow. Grow some balls and break our teeth with powerful tracks like Tragic Kingdom or Shat Out of Hell! Well, I guess I'll have to listen to the entire album before making judgements but to date I'm not in the least bit impressed, I must say.

Meh, Lilith Immaculate horrified me at first (fluffiness), but it grew on me after a couple of listens. But Forgive Me Father is just.... shit. Reminds of Scorched Earth, only much less catchy.
And what the fuck is up with Dani's image? He looks like the Mad Hatter from "Alice in Wonderland"... Jesus....

Ha ha that's so true, he really looks like Johnny Depp in that movie (who himself looked like Madonna...)! There's something very Tim Burton-esque about the whole album concept and from what I've heard the gothic side of CoF seems to be overwhelming their BM side, particularly Forgive Me Father.

I don't know. I Keep o thinking he looks like Ben Stiller in Zoolander, but perhaps he's kind of a strange unhpo;ly mix of Ben Stiller, Johnny Depp and a big forheaded brit.

For what i heard so far i am not that impressed. I'm gonna give it a few more spins and then I'll say what i think of It. As with any album, one opinion can't be based in solely 2 listens...

Fantastic album. A lot heavier than Godspeed was, and I'm liking that aspect.
Bonus tracks are amazing if you get the chance to hear them!
Good stuff, CoF!

It's definitely extreme, but a little forgettable at the moment. Need to listen a few more times.

Ok Now I can rate this new CoF album accordingly! First of all i wanna say it's a little hard to enter your mind but when it does, it's a Hell of a ride! Besides that, it's typical CoF stuff, which equal to excellent!

Here are my rating, it can change, but if it does it will be minor change.

So :

CD 1 - 9 + 9 + 10 + 9 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 9 + 10 = 106 / 11 = 9,63 - Rounded - 10
CD 2 - 9 + 10 + 10 + 9 = 38 / 4 (I don't rate the demo versions...) = 9.5 - Rounded - 10

So for me, album of the year so far!

very well done CoF.

P.S. - Even though, Dani image is a real joke

I like even more the haters rating low to bring this one down. Hahahaha, like anyone cared...

Hellomaiden - Rate 4 - Fav Bands - Helloween, Iron Maiden, Metallica, Megadeth, Blind Guardian, Edguy, Gamma Ray, Hammerfall, Sentenced, Freedom Call, Falconer, Rhapsody Of Fire, Nocturnal Rites, Angra, Divinefire, Stratovarius, Theocracy, Firewind, Savatage, Kamelot, Manowar, Running Wild, Magica, Leverage, Avantasia, Queensrÿche, Lost Horizon, Masterplan, Symphony X, Evergrey, Twilightning, Sabaton, Black Majesty, Iced Earth, Sonata Arctica, Iron Savior, InnerWish, Serenity

Congrats! , You beat all shitty fav metal bands ratings!!!

Written by Vonpire on 02.11.2010 at 22:53

Hellomaiden - Rate 4 - Fav Bands - Helloween, Iron Maiden, Metallica, Megadeth, Blind Guardian, Edguy, Gamma Ray, Hammerfall, Sentenced, Freedom Call, Falconer, Rhapsody Of Fire, Nocturnal Rites, Angra, Divinefire, Stratovarius, Theocracy, Firewind, Savatage, Kamelot, Manowar, Running Wild, Magica, Leverage, Avantasia, Queensrÿche, Lost Horizon, Masterplan, Symphony X, Evergrey, Twilightning, Sabaton, Black Majesty, Iced Earth, Sonata Arctica, Iron Savior, InnerWish, Serenity

Congrats! , You beat all shitty fav metal bands ratings!!!

LOL!!

Well, maybe i've seen worse. After all Iron Maiden, Metallica, Megadeth and Symphony X are pretty good bands...Old but good!

This is why we can't have nice things.

The truth is he rated 4 because he want that his loved ones (Helloween and B.Guardian) stay on top! It's so obvious! I don't know where the doubt is...

I think is album is great, during the first listening it was like a storm and I didn't get behind all this thunder... But right after that it somehow stays in my memory, maybe because of its heaviness... Let's see how this will develop after more listenings, but from now it's great... I love how they combine the styles of their former albums in this one, even if I hate Thornography and even Nymphetamine, what markes this album with their influence is here and then shown... but always covered with great moments of the albums up to Midian... Damnation And A Day has its greates influence in this, and I like it, DAAD was fantastic imo!

GREAT WORK I love it

This album is so fucking amazing! Unbelievable some ratings on this site...

This is the best lineup since Cruelty and the Beast, and for sure Ashley "Ellyllon" Jurgemeyer is the best addiction of the band in many years, and have a decisive contribution to this masterpiece, as well as the (imo) best drummer they ever had, Martin "Marthus" ?karoupka. I even think he is the responsible for the CoF ressurection after the deception Thornography.

Written by Vonpire on 25.11.2010 at 16:12

This album is so fucking amazing! Unbelievable some ratings on this site...

This is the best lineup since Cruelty and the Beast, and for sure Ashley "Ellyllon" Jurgemeyer is the best addiction of the band in many years, and have a decisive contribution to this masterpiece, as well as the (imo) best drummer they ever had, Martin "Marthus" �karoupka. I even think he is the responsible for the CoF ressurection after the deception Thornography.

Exactly what I think! Martin is one of the best metal drummers (besides Hahto, Duhamel...) and performs his parts in an awesome way, he is truly (after Dani and maybe together with Paul) the best member of the current lineup... and Ellyllon is also awesome, I like what she composes solo too.

I think this is their best album together with Midian and Godspeed. Even if the concept is pretty much impossible to follow through the lyrics, wich nontheless are very hunting and interesting, Dani's vocals are evergreen, and mach more audible than the first albums -wich I dont like all that much for that reason- and it has speed beyond imagination, violence and those catchy bits that never hurt. I wish I'd bought the deluxe edition...

The drumming is off the hook!

I do not know, but this album "Darkly Darkly..." for me is very dissapointing. It is the same things of the last album. It has a great production, great sound, but any song seams really interesting. The whole album is catchy, I know, but, I could not find any amazing song, just parts of a good album, but nothing else.
For me, the Thornography album seems more interesting than this brand new. At lest they were more original!

O_o ??

Thornography better than this?? OMG!

It's a nice album with rich compositions, not like the "old" CoF albums but hey we're all growing older I still prefer Godspeed on the Devil's Thunder tho which seem more solid but this is a nice album too. I don't think we'll ever see albums like Midian or Cruelty and The Beast but like I saod before, it's evolution... Like it or not.

Its far better than "Thornography" but I still go for Godspeed on the Devil's Thunder.

With the exception of Forgive me father...(A track that i consider to be the weakest song of the album) this album is solid, and certainly one of COF's best in the 21st Century. Mind you,when i first listened to this record,i absolutely hated it for some reason. But this album is indeed a grower, because, as is the case with Cradle of filth these days, albums like this need more than one listen to fully take in what's happening. And even then its either a love/hate kinda thing.

Lilith Immaculate and Beast Of Extermination

Listened recently again to "Forgive Me Father" as its great riff popped out of my head. I decided to listen to the rest of the album but as expected most of it was filler trash... Only "One Foul Step From The Abyss" stood out imo with the great synths in the last part of the song. You could either find a couple of interesting riffs like in "The Persecution Song". The famous "Lilith Immaculate" was overrated asf.

Written by Reaper_Redeemer on 17.08.2019 at 17:28
I decided to listen to the rest of the album but as expected most of it was filler trash...

That's been my experience with Cradle of Filth as a band since I first listened to them. Overall the albums always seemed to contain excessive filler tracks with a couple standouts but never a fully consistent album of strong songs. They always reminded me of those one-hit-wonder bands that drop a huge single and disappear back into mediocrity never to be heard from again, only Cradle of Filth has just enough staying power to come up with at least one of those singles with every new album.