I'm not really a doom metal fan, but this album was actually fairly easy to swallow. Without going into too much detail, it's highly recommended for Halloween parties.

When you put on a costume, you tend to take on a different personality, right? Well, listening to Cradle of Filth is like putting on an auditory mask of bleeding eyes and suckered tentacles, and Lo! YOU ARE BECOME CTHULHU, LORD OF THE INSANE! ...ahem.

I credit the comically absurd aspects of "Midian" to the unrelenting emphysemic wheezings and gutteral spewings belched into your ears by would-be vocalist Dani Filth. Indeed, visiting their excellent bandpage at www.theorderofthedragon.com (watch out who's standing behind you before trying to visit cradleoffilth.com; it's just a random porn site), these guys are all about gothic, vampiric fun. Satan himself couldn't deliver it any better, for what it's worth.

Double-bass powered, church-organ driven orchestral killy-kill. King Diamond on crack. Marilyn Manson getting ass-captained. Shit, in "Lord Abortion" I think I hear Cruella DeVille being sodomized or something. I can't go on...this CD makes my hair hurt.

Shred Pick: THE ENTIRE ALBUM

Reviewed by David C. Lovelace

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