CRADLE OF FILTH — Damnation and a Day (review)

CRADLE OF FILTH — Damnation and a Day album cover Album · 2003 · Gothic Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
2/5 ·
Warthur
Cradle of Filth pulled off a coup rivalled by few (if any) extreme metal bands when they were signed by Sony, and I suspect the band on some level realised that they couldn't count on the deal lasting long (this would be their only album for Sony before transferring to Roadrunner) so they might as well make the absolute most of it whilst they could. Hence, Damnation and a Day, a concept album based around John Milton's Paradise Lost with orchestral backing.

It's certainly a ballsy move, but structurally it doesn't work as well as their previous concept albums - for instance, the regular instrumental orchestral interludes break up the flow of the album in a rather obtrusive and disruptive way, and the individual compositions seem rather business-as-usual for Filth, as though they were relying on the orchestra to provide a new and compelling twist. The long history of rock musicians teaming up with orchestras is littered with albums where the rock music is watered down and the orchestral music is incompetently applied, and this is yet another one.
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