Artist: CRADLE OF FILTH
Album: GODSPEED ON THE DEVIL’S THUNDER (CD)

Release date: 2008
Media type: CD

Godspeed on the Devil's Thunder is conceptual and is based on the well-documented, 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 best known, however, as a prolific serial killer who mixed prayers with his nightly murders as well as an aspiring alchemist. He was accused of a panoply of crimes, among them heresy, demonology and kidnapping. There's even an extreme fringe sect of historians who question de Rais' true status, with some convinced he was framed.

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. Cradle of Filth's vocalist Dani Filth elaborated on the album's concept, saying, "By far this is our most extreme, dramatic and deeply disturbing album to date. The legend of Gilles de Rais has been given fresh, vampyrical life in this conceptual meisterwerk, swathed in pitch-black magic and a viciousness unsurpassed in the annals of Cradle history. Screw what our detractors say, everyone who has heard this album has bruised their jaws on the pentagram-bejewelled floor."

TRACKLIST:

1. In Grandeur And Frankincense Devilment Stirs
2. Shat Out Of Hell
3. The Death Of Love
4. The 13th Caesar
5. Tiffauges
6. Tragic Kingdom
7. Sweetest Maleficia
8. Honey And Sulphur
9. Midnight Shadows Crawl To Darken Counsel With Life
10. Darkness Incarnate
11. Ten Leagues Beneath Contempt
12. Godspeed On The Devil's Thunder
13. Corpseflower

LINE-UP:

Dani Filth
Paul Allender
Dave Pybus
Martin Skaroupka
Charles Hedger
Sarah Jezebel Deva
Rosie Smith