CRADLE OF FILTH
DUSK... AND HER EMBRACE (CD)
1996 chez Music For Nations


Re-Issue in 2008 by Music For Nations with 1 bonustrack (Limited Digibook) & 2 bonustracks (Limited Coffin Shaped).

1. Humana Inspired to Nightmare 1.23
2. Heaven Torn Asunder 7.06
3. Funeral in Carpathia 8.24
4. A Gothic Romance (Red Roses for the Devil's Whore) 8.35
5. Malice Through the Looking Glass 5.30
6. Dusk and Her Embrace 6.09
7. The Graveyard by Moonlight 2.28
8. Beauty Slept in Sodom 6.32
9. Haunted Shores 7.04

Bonustrack (Re-Issue 2008)
10. Nocturnal Supremacy 5.59

Bonustrack (Re-Issue 2008)
10. Hell Awaits (Slayer Cover) 5.41
11. Carmilla's Mask (Instrumental) 2.54

Total playing time 53.13


Mika_Helvetia
Cradle was still in a spirit very close to Black plurist at that time even if it were felt, more in the marketting that in the music, a certain disqualification of this medium. However it is a sumptuous album which was delivered ! English influences with some gruitar sounds like Maiden or other English heavy groups, Dani and his colleagues strike an other time in the symphonic black ! Between the epic fantastic track Malice Through The Looking Glass and the powerful Dusk And Her Embrace, they are pieces impossible to circumvent like Funeral In Carpatia or Beauty Slept In Sodom each one can find what he want with there. The tracks show impressive an originality the ones compared to the others, but form a perfectly homogeneous and satisfactory whole.
Supported by dark keyboards and the sumptuous voice of Sarah Jezebel we can just dream of a world invades by the plague, terrorized by the monsters of darkness and governed by the lords of war.

2008-11-21