CRADLE OF FILTH — Godspeed on the Devil's Thunder: The Life and Crimes of Gilles de Rais (review)

CRADLE OF FILTH — Godspeed on the Devil's Thunder: The Life and Crimes of Gilles de Rais album cover Album · 2008 · Gothic Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
3/5 ·
Warthur
To my ears, Godspeed On the Devil's Thunder sounds like a throwback to the sound of Cruelty and the Beast, which I suppose makes sense since you could see it as a spiritual sequel to the earlier album. Both pieces are concept albums based on extremely fanciful retellings of the lives of medieval nobles accused of serial murder, witchcraft and Satanism; Cruelty was about perennial black metal muse Countess Bathory, whilst Godspeed finds Cradle of Filth telling the tale of Gilles de Rais, former companion of Joan of Arc turned murderous pedophile.

Whilst it isn't an especially original piece, there are some improvements over the earlier album; the production is better, as are the performances, and the poetic lyrics are much less clumsy and verge on being genuinely clever at points. On the other hand, the clumsiness and bad poetry of Cruelty and the Beast was part of its charm, and the band seem to be a bit self-consciously going through the motions this time around.
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