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- Record Label: Roadrunner
- Release Date: Oct 28, 2008
- Summary: The English metal band's latest release is a concept album about Gilles de Rais, the world's first serial killer and a soldier for Joan of Arc.
- Record Label: Roadrunner
- Genre(s): Rock, Metal
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Positive: 1 out of 5
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Mixed: 3 out of 5
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Negative: 1 out of 5
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Alternative PressGodspeed On The Devil's Thunder sees the Brits at thie operatic best and completely unafraid to fill their songs with orchestral keyboards. [Dec 208, p.142]
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Q MagazineFilth's fondness for combining high-minded conceptualism with base British humour is actually their strong point. [Dec 2008, p.123]
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What we’re stuck with, though, is yet another Cradle of Filth album that drags on for more than 70 minutes, and although Filth’s lyrics and flamboyantly eccentric vocal performance are as deliciously demented as ever, the actual musical arrangements don’t reach anywhere near the level they’re supposed to.
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The obsession Cradle of Filth have with post-production is the very thing that removes the power from this set and makes it more of a wry--and unintentionally comedic--piece and impossible to take seriously.
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Symphonic elements always have potential in music, but often are ruined by the execution and this album is no exception. Cradle of Filth fall into the trap of using them as a replacement for actual songwriting, relying on the symphonic arrangements to cover up their lack of talent. It doesn't work, especially because the arrangements themselves aren't too interesting in the first place.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 5 out of 5
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Mixed: 0 out of 5
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Negative: 0 out of 5
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MetalHeadFeb 8, 2009First and foremost this is a biased opinion of this latest offering from Cradle of Filth
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MetalHeadDec 6, 2008First and foremost this is a biased opinion of this latest offering from Cradle of Filth
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DavidMNov 22, 2008
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Dec 30, 2011
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Sep 5, 2011
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