CRADLE OF FILTH‘s new album, The Manticore & Other Horrors – Extended Claws, is available now and features the video for the song ‘For Your Vulgar Delectation’, taken from their latest album The Manticore And Other Horrors, along with 12 unreleased demos and another three videos.
‘For Your Vulgar Delectation’ can now be seen below:
The Manticore & Other Horrors – Extended Claws tracklisting:
‘The Unveiling of O’
‘The Abhorrent’
‘For Your Vulgar Delectation’
‘Illicitus’
‘Manticore’
‘Frost On Her Pillow’
‘Huge Onyx Wings Behind Despair ‘
‘Pallid Reflection’
‘Siding With the Titans’
‘Succumb to This’
‘Nightmares of an Ether Drinker’
‘Death, the Great Adventure’
‘Sinfonia’
‘The Unveiling of O’ (Demo)
‘Manticore’ (Demo)
‘Siding With the Titans’ (Demo)
‘Death, the Great Adventure’ (Demo)
‘Succumb to This’ (Demo)
‘Huge Onyx Wings Behind Despair’ (Demo)
‘Illicitus’ (Demo)
‘Pallid Reflection’ (Demo)
‘The Abhorrent’ (Demo)
‘For Your Vulgar Delectation’ (Demo)
‘Frost On Her Pillow’ (Demo)
‘Sinfonia’ (Demo)
‘Frost On Her Pillow’ (video)
The Making Of ‘Frost On Her Pillow’ (video)
‘For Your Vulgar Delectation’ (video)
The Making Of ‘For Your Vulgar Delectation’ (video)
Behind-the-scenes footage from the making of “For Your Vulgar Delectation”, the new video from British extreme metallers CRADLE OF FILTH, can be seen below. The full clip will make its online debut next week.
“For Your Vulgar Delectation” comes off CRADLE OF FILTH‘s tenth studio album, “The Manticore And Other Horrors”, which sold 4,500 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 96 on The Billboard 200 chart. The band’s previous full-length effort, “Darkly, Darkly, Venus Aversa”, opened with 5,800 units in November 2010 to land at No. 99.
CRADLE OF FILTH‘s 2008 CD, “Godspeed On The Devil’s Thunder”, premiered with a little over 11,000 copies to enter the chart at No. 48. This was slightly less than the first-week tally registered by 2006’s “Thornography”, which shifted nearly 13,000 copies the first week out to enter The Billboard chart at No. 66, and “Nymphetamine”, which premiered with almost 14,000 copies back in October 2004.
“The Manticore And Other Horrors” was released in North America on October 30, 2012 via Nuclear Blast Records.
Recorded in eight weeks at both Springvale and Grindstone studios (where it was also mixed by Scott Atkins), Suffolk, “The Manticore And Other Horrors” is a testament to the longevity of the ‘FILTH, as not only does it reek of CRADLE‘s (feared or revered) brand of delicious metal vamperotica, but this thoroughly modern album places the band firmly in fresh killing fields anew.
“The Manticore And Other Horrors” itself possesses an altogether new atmosphere for the band, incorporating a heavier, faster NWOBBM punk vibe that is both current and cruel, blended with ornate orchestration and the quirky immediateness of 2000’s “Midian” opus.
The album’s title can be likened to a bestiary, a collection of stories on monsters – personal demons, Chimeras, literary fiends and world-enslaving entities to blame but a few. “Manticore”, the ravening title track, is a song about a beautiful mythological horror that comes to be feared as the disfigurehead of foreign occupation in the Indian provinces.
The songs “Illicitus” and “Pallid Reflection” bear the sweet ingredients of vampirism and lycanthropy; the wicked “For Your Vulgar Delectation” and “Frost On Her Pillow” are woven perversely into grim fairy tales, whilst classic, monumental tracks like “The Abhorrent And Siding With The Titans” both extol tentacular Lovecraftian values.
The official lyric video for the song “For Your Vulgar Delectation” from British extreme metallers CRADLE OF FILTH can be seen below. The track comes off the band’s tenth studio album, “The Manticore And Other Horrors”, which will be released in North America on October 30 via Nuclear Blast Records.
The track listing for the CD is as follows:
01. The Unveiling Of O
02. The Abhorrent
03. For Your Vulgar Delectation
04. Illicitus
05. Manticore
06. Frost On Her Pillow
07. Huge Onyx Wings Behind Despair
08. Pallid Reflection
09. Siding With The Titans
10. Succumb To This
11. Nightmares Of An Ether Drinker
12. Death, The Great Adventure (deluxe edition digipak)
13. Sinfonia (deluxe edition digipak)
A mini-site for “The Manticore And Other Horrors”has been launched, featuring album audio, information, gallery, desktop downloads, plus a chance to download the track “For Your Vulgar Delectation” for free.
Recorded in eight weeks at both Springvale and Grindstone studios (where it was also mixed by Scott Atkins), Suffolk, “The Manticore And Other Horrors” is a testament to the longevity of the ‘FILTH, as not only does it reek of CRADLE‘s (feared or revered) brand of delicious metal vamperotica, but this thoroughly modern album places the band firmly in fresh killing fields anew.
“The Manticore And Other Horrors” itself possesses an altogether new atmosphere for the band, incorporating a heavier, faster NWOBBM punk vibe that is both current and cruel, blended with ornate orchestration and the quirky immediateness of 2000’s “Midian” opus.
The album’s title can be likened to a bestiary, a collection of stories on monsters – personal demons, Chimeras, literary fiends and world-enslaving entities to blame but a few. “Manticore”, the ravening title track, is a song about a beautiful mythological horror that comes to be feared as the disfigurehead of foreign occupation in the Indian provinces.
The songs “Illicitus” and “Pallid Reflection” bear the sweet ingredients of vampirism and lycanthropy; the wicked “For Your Vulgar Delectation” and “Frost On Her Pillow” are woven perversely into grim fairy tales, whilst classic, monumental tracks like “The Abhorrent And Siding With The Titans” both extol tentacular Lovecraftian values.
Speaking to Metal-Trails.com at this year’s Wacken Open Air festival, which took place August 2-4 in Wacken, Germany, CRADLE OF FILTH frontman Dani “Filth” Davey stated about the musical direction of the band’s new album, “It’s a slightly different direction for CRADLE OF FILTH. It’s very fresh for people who appreciate our other works. It’s a slightly shorter album, but we’ve concentrated on melody and different techniques that have been slightly missing from our music — it’s a bit punkier, a bit more structured, a bit more singalong, but it’s still extreme and it’s still CRADLE OF FILTH.”
He continued, “It’s very hard to speak about it, because it’s only been two years since our last record, so if it was so familiar, trying to explain what that record was like and what this record is like… Because there’s so much going on in our music — there’s symphonic parts and then there’s really fast parts and slow, romantic interludes and, like I said, punk and New Wave Of British Heavy Metal in there. But it’s all kind of wrapped up in theology and cinematic kind of soundscape. So it’s hard to break it down and say, ‘Well, this is what we’re doing this time that’s a bit different from the last time.’ But it’s good. We’re really proud of what we’re doing. I think people are gonna be very surprised when they hear it and go, ‘Wow, that’s CRADLE OF FILTH for 2012.'”
You can now listen to and download CRADLE OF FILTH‘s new track, ‘For Your Vulgar Delectation’, from the upcoming album, The Manticore And Other Horrors. Get your download at this location, listen to the track below:
The special limited edition of The Manticore And Other Horrors – scheduled for release October 29th in The UK and Europe via Peaceville, and October 30th in North America via Nuclear Blast – contains two bonus tracks in the shape of ‘Nightmares Of An Ether Drinker’, and ‘Death, The Great Adventure’, and is presented in deluxe digibook format with 28 page booklet. The complete tracklisting can be found below the album cover:
‘The Unveiling Of O’
‘The Abhorrent’
‘For Your Vulgar Delectation’
‘Illicitus’
‘Manticore’
‘Frost On Her Pillow’
‘Huge Onyx Wings Behind Despair’
‘Pallid Reflection’
‘Siding With The Titans’
‘Succumb To This’
‘Nightmares Of An Ether Drinker’ (bonus track)
‘Death, The Great Adventure’ (bonus track)
‘Sinfonia’
In his most recent blog, which can be read in its entirety at this location, COF frontman Dani Filth stated, “I can truly say that The Manticore and Other Horrors sounds fucking awesome, a real noticeable twist in tone but all the better for it. It’s ornate, taut, punk and aggressive but very much the neo-classical whore of yore, spitting raw bloody fury through the maw of the majestic. But I would say that, I’ve had a firm hand in it’s oily whelping!
That’s right. Breakneck Gothic Lustmord razor metal with a hint of the willies.
Something that surpasses our previous two albums with nary a blink for forgiveness. Something that has the true pumping blood of Cradle at it’s indelible helm. Something truly wicked.”
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