CRADLE OF FILTH TURN OVER THE KEYS TO THE “TRAGIC KINGDOM”
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008 at 11:23am by Axl Rosenberg
Cradle of Filth have posted a new song, “Tragic Kingdom,” for free download here. The track comes off the band’s new Andy Sneap-produced album, Godspeed on the Devil’s Thunder, which Roadrunner will release on October 28, just in time for Halloween (ooooooooh… spooky). It’s a concept album about Gilles De Rais, a peer of Joan of Arc’s who later did a lot of horrible stuff to a lot of little boys (and some little girls, but, like everyone here at the MetalSucks Mansion, he preferred little boys). We got to chat with Dani Filth about the album last week, and he told us it was “a dark fairytale.” I’m not sure how a French nobleman going all Hostel on a bunch of kids can be a fairytale, but, hey, I’m willing to give Dani the benefit of the doubt.
ANYWAY, the song seems a little more traditionally black metal than anything from the last couple of COF albums, although at this point I don’t know if there’s anything Dani and the boys could do to satisfy the tr00 kvltists. I’m also fairly certain they don’t care.
-AR
[Thanks to Ryan Durinick for the tip].
Put on your goth makeup, leather wrist gauntlets, and chastity belt. Raise your upturned hands, cup the horse’s balls and SCREAM!!!!!! Cradle of Filth won’t die.
I really wanted to like Thornography………
I actually like this. Better than almost anything they’ve done the last 4 years.
Well with the assumption and hope that this won’t be like Dirge Inferno and be the only track that’s even remotely like this on the new cd, I’m fucking looking forward to this now.
I thought every released they’d had up till Thornography was awesome, so I guess it can’t be too hard to satisfy me. It’s damn nice to hear that keyboard again.
that album art is so cheesy
Don’t mean to sound like a total d-bag but um….wasn’t this track the name of the No Doubt CD back in ‘96? Just sayin….sweet song though.
@dr j
Definitely in the running for worst album art of the year.
That’d be kinda cool if MetalSucks did a contest for worst album art. I could definitely find myself entertained by that.
Gayest Artwork Ever.
Agree, terrible artwork. They oscillate between great (Nymphetamine) and not great (Thornography), but this is horrible. I looks like a high school graphic arts project. Remember kids, wait 10 months and get the super deluxe edition with bonus tracks, because you know COF will do that. They always do.
yeah. cuz celtic frost never did a song about that. thanks for staying original, you bad ass “metal” band
My god, the artwork is awful! I can do better with photoshop in one hour of work.
@blen genton
yeah seriously. covering a subject that’s already been the topic of 1 song that another band did…that’s so UNORIGINAL. How hard is it to find something in history that no one has ever talked about, not once, ever?
you “got em” dude!
^zing.
Yes, the artwork is awful. It looks like bad CGI from the early 90s.
Cue the gay jokes.
Isn’t Dani Filth’s voice kind of. . dead? At least in the sence that he’s kind of worn out his vocals since they first started.
GAWD! i want the lyrics… who has it… fuk!