Comments on: album review : Midnight in the Labyrinth (2012) – Cradle of Filth

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[...] noticing. Guess the song, and you will win nothing. The scream seems logical though unlike Dani Filth, who is nowadays seen screaming for no reason whatsoever. You agree, don’t you? You will get [...]

By: Itihas Shetty

Itihas Shetty — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 20:06:27 +0000

Sure thing, Siddharth, will enjoy! Next up is Slayer, Sleep, Melvins, Wolves in the Throne Room, YOB, Death Grips in May and then Download Festival in June. New Opeth was forgettable. Reviewed here Couldn't find the time to review CoF's Godspeed on the Devil's Thunder, and didn't enjoy it either. And, I was to write about the new Napalm Death but somehow it skipped my mind back then. But I'd recommend the album mate. It is, like you said, relentless grindcore the way Napalm Death enjoys it.

By: Siddharth

Siddharth — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 17:19:42 +0000

Saw that you saw Autopsy (I saw em as abcess with Chris Reifert doing his thing on drums an vocals ….as did Mike Browning for Morbid Angel…..and Benediction …..man that’s a fucking kick ass band especially all songs from Transcend the rubicon and Grind Bastard are sonic kills……..especially Agonized, Painted Skulls, Nightfear and Nerve Bomb………just that sometimes the vocal growls sound funny…..but man enjoy your time while you are there……..heard HERITAGE from opeth (disaster as compared to Damnation, Ghost reveries and watershed) and GOD SPEED DEVIL’s thunder by COF ( sick to the core as it’s based on GILES DE REIS)….good song especially TIFFAUGES and Shat out of hell…..lot’s going on….been trying to get my hand on UTILITARIAN the latest by NAPALMDEATH….these buggers keep churning our relentless grindcore stuff every year………let me know if you get to review this album…..hope it’s as usual Perforation in the tympanum stuff from napalmdeath

By: Itihas Shetty

Itihas Shetty — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 08:34:29 +0000

LOL, hahaha. Brilliant! Of course I remember you Siddharth! I had loads of expectations from CoF when they played their first gig in Bangalore, but trust me when I saw them live I was bored to death. Surprising. Even we could watch Filth do their sound check but the gig was organized by a bunch of retards. They had covered the venue with shamiana like its a fucking wedding pandal. Even though the band had no problem with fans watching them do their sound check, these narrow-minded organizers were trying to act cool and shit. I hope they are reading this. I was supposed to do a video interview with Filth but by now you’d be able to guess what might have happened. Anyways, screw that…

Well, I can never watch the number of bands you did, but what you did in US is what I’m doing in UK right now man. Done with a few festivals and next up is Download’s 10th anniversary. Yeah, baby!

You have a great day Siddharth. Make merry.

By: Siddharth

Siddharth — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 01:48:20 +0000

Hey Itihas…hope you remember me…Siddharth (gave you a lift to your place and spoke shit loads about metal)…thanks for this review…I was very happy to see a new album from COF but the tracklisting just alludes to a bag of old stuff refried and reheated…….will wait for their further albums….beg to differ on one point though…they are not a boring live band…had seen them @ Filmore San Fransisco in 2005….they kicked a$$ …..especially thier unique way of mike testing…instead of going “Hello..check…mike..check..hello” they’d go ” cunt…penis….cunt….dick” ……see they’re sort of entertaining ….lol…peace brother…have a nice day

By: Itihas Shetty

Itihas Shetty — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 22:35:18 +0000

And since you’ve reminded me about Abrahadabra, here’s a review I had written for Dimmu Borgir’s ninth full-length – http://absurdhistory.com/2010/09/24/album-review-abrahadabra-dimmu-borgir-2010/. One of my favorite albums of its kind, Abrahadabra was an exemplary effort by the band.

By: Itihas Shetty

Itihas Shetty — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 22:29:49 +0000

You mean ‘Dusk… and Her Embrace’. Yea, man. In fact you should start from their first demo ‘Orgiastic Pleasures Foul’ up until their Ep ‘Vempire’. Like you said even I am a fan of orchestral stuff, and I know exactly what you are hinting at. Although there are parts where Filth’s new album that embrace you but you realize that Filth has run out of ideas. That it is the same stuff again, but only this time it is sounding less noisy. A successful band can’t just bask in the glory of a few good songs they wrote in the past. You need to keep going, and you need to keep tearing worlds apart. If someone who has never heard Filth before plays ‘Midnight in the Labyrinth’, then s/he would find a wonderful partner. The record is full of lullabies, and Dani is surprisingly gentle!

By: Jae Aytch

Jae Aytch — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 21:54:50 +0000

I have been listening to Cradle of Filth since Darkness and Her Embrace (good for me, I know). I find myself agreeing with you on the Thornography and Godspeed albums -for Cradle of Filth, they were rather forgettable. The bar was set by Cruelty and Damnation. Anyway, back to the topic at hand. I heard the Red Roses for the Devils Whore track from this album and found it to be interesting. Not a fan of the voice over, but I like the music. I rather like it when bands who uses orchestral overtones release the orchestral version sans the band (good example of this: Dimmu Borgir – Abrahadabra bonus tracks). While your first responder didn’t like your review, I found it made me want to check the album out for myself all that much more. Cheers.

By: Itihas Shetty

Itihas Shetty — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 20:03:17 +0000

Thanks! Terrible albums deserve terrible reviews. And that’s a pretty poseurish name you’ve got there.

By: Music rocks

Music rocks — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 19:43:15 +0000

What a terrible review