Cradle of Filth are a band from the United Kingdom that are probably the most famous band when it comes to symphonic black metal and this is a review of their 2014 double album "Total Fucking Darkness" which was released by Mordgrimm Records and is all demo tracks for the early 90's.
The album starts out with symphonic keyboards and a few seconds alter the music goes into a faster and heavier direction along with a mixture of death and black metal vocals as well as some blast beats and powerful sounding bass guitars.
As the album progresses a mixture of slow and fast parts are added into the music along with some melody and solos and the music also retains its symphonic elements an d the band brings in more death metal influences and mixes it in with black metal and this sounds nothing like the Cradle of Filth of modern days and at times you can hear traces of thrash and doom metal in the recording and they also bring in a few instrumentals at times.
With this album Cradle of Filth have a very different sound than what they have these days with the music being in a more melodic black/death metal direction while still having a good amount of symphonic elements and their early stuff shows why they where once respected in black metal before going into a more commercial direction in the later years and alienating t heir old audience for the more trendy audience they have these days.
Song lyrics cover Satanism and occultism themes, while the production has a more raw and demo sound to it while you can still hear all of the musical instruments that are present on this recording along with some of the songs being very long and epic in length.
In my opinion this is a very great sounding recording from Cradle of Filth and if you are interested in hearing them in their more earlier sound, you should check out this album. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "The Black Goddess Arises" "Unbridled At Dark" "Devil Mayfair (Advocatus Diaboli)" and "The Raping of Faith". 8 out of 10.
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