Artist: CRADLE OF FILTH
Album: DAMNATION AND A DAY (CD)

Year: 2003
Media type: CD

Damnation and a Day: From Genesis To Nemesis is the fifth album by Cradle of Filth. It features the 40-piece Budapest Film Orchestra and 32-piece Budapest Film Choir, is partly based on John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost, and was Cradle's only full-length release for the major label Sony before they jumped ship for Roadrunner Records.

Narration on some tracks is by David McEwen, who played Kemper in Cradle of Fear and appeared in the video for Her Ghost in the Fog, miming Doug Bradley's vocals.

This is the first Cradle album to feature only one full-time guitar player, as original guitarist Gian Pyres quit the band shortly before the writing and recording process. Keyboardist Martin Powell played session guitars for the album.

In addition to the Miltonic arc the album also features stand-alone tracks such as the Nile tribute[1] "Doberman Pharaoh" and the Aleister Crowley influenced "Babalon AD (So Glad For The Madness)".

The album spawned two DVD singles for the songs "Babalon AD (So Glad For The Madness)" and "Mannequin". The former was directed by Wiz (who had previously worked with Marilyn Manson), and was modelled on Pier Paolo Pasolini's notorious film Salт; an adaptation of the Marquis de Sade's The 120 Days of Sodom. The latter, reminiscent of the films of Jan Љvankmajer, was directed by Thomas Mignone, and featured stop motion animation by George Higham.

TRACKLIST:

I. Fantasia Down

1. "A Bruise Upon the Silent Moon" – 2:03
2. "The Promise of Fever" – 5:58
3. "Hurt and Virtue" – 5:23
4. "An Enemy Led the Tempest" – 6:11

II. Paradise Lost

5. "Damned in Any Language (A Plague on Words)" – 1:58
6. "Better to Reign in Hell" – 6:11
7. "Serpent Tongue" – 5:10
8. "Carrion" – 4:42

III. Sewer Side Up

9. "The Mordant Liquor of Tears" – 2:35
10. "Presents From the Poison-Hearted" – 6:19
11. "Doberman Pharaoh" – 6:03
12. "Babylon AD - 5.36

IV. The Scented Garden

13. "A Scarlet Witch Lit the Season" – 1:34
14. "Mannequin" – 4:27
15. "Thank God for the Suffering" – 6:13
16. "The Smoke of Her Burning" – 5:00
17. "End of Daze" – 1:24

LINE-UP:

Dani Filth - Vocals
Paul Allender - Guitar
Martin Powell - Keyboards, Violin, Guitars
Dave Pybus - Bass
Adrian Erlandsson - Drums
Sarah Jezebel Deva - Backing Vocals