(Halloween News) Cradle of Filth Announce Their Darkest Album of All - I Like Music
Our most notorious and nefarious metal band are gearing up to release their darkest, most dastardly album of all, titled Godspeed on the Devil’s Thunder on October 27th. The album, which will have a special edition with an extra disc and bonus material, arrives just in time for Halloween, a day to fit Cradle of Filth’s blackened, ghostly aesthetic. The album is conceptual and is based on the 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 accused of a panoply of crimes, among them heresy, demonology and kidnapping. Regardless of viewpoint, leave it to Cradle of Filth to dissect de Rais’ biography, exploring subversive, inflammatory historical subject matter in its lyrics, taking an unjaundiced look at a controversial figure in European history, set to epic black metal music. The band profiled Hungarian countess Elizabeth Bathory, who attempted to preserve her youth by bathing in the blood of virgins, in the past and now moves forward by framing their latest album around the story of de Rais. More Halloween News