Cradle Of Filth - Complete Discography Retrospective

Welcome to my second discography retrospective video, this time for Cradle Of Filth! Once a mainstay of the British extreme metal underworld, Cradle now include members from around the globe and are a household name when it comes to all things gothic, metal and extreme. Join me as I talk about the band’s history, all their studio albums, and a few EPs for good measure. Hopefully you’ll learn something, and if not, you’ll get a good laugh out of my pointless opinion and my inability to pronounce anybody’s name correctly.


** Chapters **
00:00 Introduction
02:29 Demos & Goetia
06:16 Principle Of Evil Made Flesh
13:41 Vempire
17:25 Dusk… And Her Embrace
20:55 Cruelty And The Beast
23:56 From The Cradle To Enslave
27:41 Midian
31:35 Bitter Suites To Succubi
34:18 Damnation And A Day
37:49 Nymphetamine
42:22 Thornography
46:26 Godspeed On The Devil’s Thunder
49:44 Darkly Darkly Venus Aversa
51:56 The Manticore & Other Horrors
54:49 Hammer Of The Witches, Evermore Darkly & Midnight In The Labyrinth
58:18 Dusk… And Her Embrace (The Original Sin)
1:01:54 Cryptoriana - The Seductiveness Of Decay
1:04:13 Existence Is Futile & Outro


** Please Note **
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All song clips and artwork have been used for the purpose of critique and review, and no copyright infringement is intended or encouraged. If you like any of the music you hear here please consider purchasing it, or checking it out through legal streaming channels such as YouTube Music or Spotify.


** Song credits for this video **
Here’s a list of the songs used in this video (in order).

Babylon A.D. (So Glad For The Madness)
As Deep As Any Burial
A Crescendo Of Passion Bleeding
The Forest Whispers My Name
To Eve, The Art Of Witchcraft
The Rape And Ruin Of Angels (Hosannas In Extremis) (1)
Queen Of Winter, Throned
Funeral In Carpathia
A Gothic Romance (Red Roses For The Devil’s Whore)
13 Autumns And A Widow
Beneath The Howling Stars
From The Cradle To Enslave (1)
From The Cradle To Enslave (2)
Sleepless
Cthulhu Dawn
All Hope In Eclipse
The Promise Of Fever
Gilded Cunt
Nymphetamine Fix
Nymphetamine Sarah Jezebel Deva Fix
The Foetus Of A New Day Kicking (had to be muted because it was causing the video to be blocked in the USA)
The Byronic Man
Godspeed On The Devil’s Thunder
Lilith Immaculate
The Abhorrent
Blackest Magick In Practice
Funeral In Carpathia (Original Sin Version)
Heartbreak And Seance
Crawling King Chaos
Us, Dark, Invincible
The Rape And Ruin Of Angels (Hosannas In Extremis) (2)


** Other Notes **
Here’s some of the things I got wrong that I noticed during production of the video. If there’s anything else I got wrong please let me know in the comments and I’ll add it to this list. Cheers!

Gian Pyres (guitar) came in around Dusk And Her Embrace, not Cruelty And The Beast as I have stated in the video. However, although he is credited on the Dusk album, he didn’t play on that record at all. Gian’s name is also pronounced closer to the English name “John”, and is short for Gianpiero. The reason I’m mentioning this is because my pronunciation of it is way, way off in the video (gee-yan lol).

I also heavily understated the presence of Danielle Cottington as the second female vocalist on most of the band’s earlier records, so I apologise for her omission here. My point of bigging up Sarah Jezebel Deva is lost a bit when I completely excluded Danielle.


** Further Watching, Listening or Reading? **
I fell down a rabbit hole of COF info after creating this video, so here’s some links to some other cool stuff.

The Loudwire video where Dani explains their lost album:
   • Cradle of Filth's Dani Filth - Wikipedia: ...  

Scars & Guitars podcast episode interviewing Stuart Anstis, the guitar player for Dusk, Cruelty and From The Cradle To Enslave. I’ve listed other Scars & Guitars podcasts below, as his work in contacting the old Cradle guys is absolutely exceptional, but this two-part, long-form interview is phenomenal. Anstis is a fantastic speaker, and he really does not hold anything back whilst recounting his time in Cradle Of Filth:
   • A conversation with Stuart Anstis (ex- Cra...  

Scars & Guitars interview of the legendary Nicholas Barker:
   • A conversation with Nick Barker (ex- Cradl...  

Scars & Guitars interview of Damien Gregori, COF keyboardist for Vempire / Dusk:
   • A conversation with Greg Moffitt (Damien G...  

Scars & Guitars interview of Benjamin Ryan, COF's original keyboardist:
   • A conversation with Benjamin Ryan (ex-Crad...