CRADLE OF FILTH — Nymphetamine (review)

CRADLE OF FILTH — Nymphetamine album cover Album · 2004 · Gothic Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
2.5/5 ·
Warthur
Cradle of Filth's Nymphetamine is their first album for a long while that's merely a collection of songs rather than being a concept album. Oh, the idea of women and sex and sex with women and being tied up and flogged whilst having sex with women rears its head regularly over the course of the album, but that's a perennial Cradle of Filth obsession; to be honest, I was kind of embarrassed by some of the stuff Dani Filth said in press interviews surrounding the album, because he seemed to go out of his way to find the most pretentious ways possible to say "I write about BDSM because it makes me horny".

But enough of that, what about the music? Well, after the deliriously over the top Damnation and a Day, the band seem to have felt the need to get back to basics, which means that the black metal side of their sound is pushed to the fore in a way it hasn't since its debut, and their lusher, more symphonic gothic metal instincts are ruthlessly suppressed. Now, the Filth are a bit more adept at this whole extreme metal deal than they were on their debut album, so overall this approach results in a reasonably listenable sound, but by toning down the very features that make their sound distinctive they more or less sabotage any hope they had of making the album truly great; it comes across as a Cradle of Filth album which, for the first time, is kind of ashamed of being Cradle of Filth.
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