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cradle of Filth formed in Suffolk in 1991 and after a string of demo recordings released their debut album, "The Principle of Evil Made Flesh" in 1994. The band have gone on to become one of the UK's most successful metal acts,  known for their dynamic symphonic style of gothic black metal, along with the dark poetic lyrics from the hand of enigmatic front-man Dani Filth.

 

The title of this, Cradle Of Filth's tenth studio full-length, 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 being the ravening title track. It 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 bare the sweet ingredients of vampirism and lycanthropy; the wicked For Your Vulgar Delectation and Frost On her Pillow are woven perversely into grim fairytales, whilst classic, monumental tracks like The Abhorrent and Siding With The Titans both extol tentacular Lovecraftian values.

 

1. The Unveiling of O

2. The Abhorrent

3. For your Vulgar Delectation

4. Illicitus

5. Manticore

6. Frost on her Pillow

7. Huge Onyx Wings Behind Despair

8. Pallid Reflection

9. Siding with the Titans

10. Succumb to This

11. Sinfonia