1. In Grandeur And Frankincense Devilment Stirs
2. Shat Out Of Hell
3. The Death Of Love
4. The 13th Caesar
5. Tiffauges
6. Tragic Kingdom
7. Sweetest Maleficia
8. Honey And Sulphur
9. Midnight Shadows Crawl To Darken Counsel With Life
10. Darkness Incarnate
11. Ten Leagues Beneath Contempt
12. Godspeed On The Devil's Thunder
13. Corpseflower
14. Balsamic And Anathema
15. A Thousand Hands Upon The Maid Of Ruin
16. Into The Crypt Of Rays
17. Devil To The Metal
18. Courting Baphomet
19. The Love Of Death (remix)
20. The Death Of Love (Demo)
21. The 13th Caesar (Demo)
22. Dirge Inferno (live)
23. Dusk And Her Embrace (live)
Product Description
2 CD Special Edition. After 8 menacing albums, the kings of black metal return with their most dastardly tale yet. Chronicling the story of the world's first serial killer, French nobleman and soldier of Joan of Arc, Gilles De Rais. Like they had done with the story of Elizabeth Bathory, Cradle of Filth weave a tale of murder, the occult, and sinister deed around their trademark metal sound. Fueled by breakneck speed, crushing guitars, and haunting vocals- the band has delivered their hardest most aggressive and chilling piece yet. This is the 2CD special edition.
Album Description
Explicit Version. Special Edition Two CD set. After eight menacing albums, the kings of black Metal return with their most dastardly tale yet. Chronicling the story of the world's first serial killer, French nobleman and soldier of Joan of Arc, Gilles De Rais. Like they had done with the story of Elizabeth Bathory, Cradle of Filth weave a tale of murder, the occult, and sinister deed around their trademark metal sound. Fueled by breakneck speed, crushing guitars, and haunting vocals- the band has delivered their hardest most aggressive and chilling piece yet. 2008.
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Godspeed On The Devil's Thunder(Special Edition 2 CD)
- Audio CD: 0 pages (2008-10-28)
- Publisher: Roadrunner Records
- Label: Roadrunner Records
- Format: Explicit Lyrics, Special Edition
- Studio: Roadrunner Records
- Average Customer Review:
 based on 15 reviews
- Sales Rank in Music: #2023
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Summary: All Hail the Filthy Ones! 2008-12-01
Comment: As a fan of symphonic metal over black metal, I can't say I was at all disappointed with the direction that Cradle of Filth were taking with their album 'Nymphetamine'. After 'Thornography', however, (though it is still in no way a 'bad' album) I was somewhat concerned that they might be headed down the same unhappy route as Sirenia and countless other bands. But how wrong I was!
'Godspeed on the Devil's Thunder' brings back everything we loved about the Cradle of Filth of yore, whilst also bringing a slightly more symphonic feel to the music than in their early albums. Frankly, if you've got any good taste in music whatsoever, then you're going to find something to love about this album.
This time Dani Filth, with his violent albeit beautiful graveyard poetry, weaves the appropriately gruesome tale of Gilles de Rais: a French nobalman/serial killer; cronicoling everything from the death of Joan of Arc, to the atrocities of de Rais, and his trial and execution.
Doug Bradley (AKA Pinhead, for those who're fans of Hellraiser, like me) returns again, this time lending his voice to de Rais. This is just one of those theatrical touches that I've loved about all of Cradle's albums: you can just tell that they've invested so much time and consideration to their projects. Every second of this album is pretty much fantastic, but for me the especial stand-out tracks (aside from their beautiful intro and interludes) are: 'Shat out of Hell', 'The Death of Love', 'The 13th Caesar', 'Sweetest Maleficia', 'Darkness Incarnate' & the stunning 'Honey and Sulpher'.
Alongside 'Median', I can honestly say that this is my favourite album by Cradle of Filth - and hence one of the best albums of all-time. It is brilliant. Get your claws on the two-disc edition while you can!
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Summary: Godspeed On The Devil's Thunder 2008-11-24
Comment: I can't stop listening to both of these discs. They finally went back to their old style and i'm lovin it. I can't wait to see them Feb. 28, 2009.
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Summary: Very awesome job!!! 2008-11-18
Comment: This album is great. Cradle Of Filth return to their earlier and better sound here. Awesome riffs and to top it off an awesome spot on cover of "Crypt Of Rays" by Celtic Frost, awesome Black Metal! Great job Dani!
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Summary: Back In Top Form 2008-11-16
Comment: It seems I'm not alone in my thoughts on Godspeed On The Devil's Thunder.
Cradle Of Filth have returned to a sound more reminiscent of their days before becoming "popular" (which should not be seen as a bad thing) and Godspeed is their best effort since Midian, if not better. That's not to say that Damnation And A Day, Nymphetamine and Thornography are bad albums. Quite the opposite, actually. But Godspeed features COF utilizing the best of old and new. Musically, this album sounds more like Cradle of old (without being as brutal or as fast as possible), while Dani has retained the clearer (but rarely clean) vocals of the later releases. No Cradle Of Filth album has grabbed me quite like Vempire did when I first heard the band, though Godspeed and Cruelty And The Beast come close, followed by Midian.
As mentioned, the album tells the tale of Gilles de Rais, a man who served with Joan of Arc and supposedly lived a second life, dabbling in the occult and turning to mass murder later in his life. While Dani may have taken some liberties with the subject matter (as with Erzsébet Báthory on Cruelty And The Beast), Godspeed does a good job at telling the story, including the execution of Joan of Arc in 1431.
Lending his voice to Cradle Of Filth for a fourth time is Doug Bradley, who is best known for playing Pinhead in the Hellraiser movies. I thought his voiceovers were used too much and they seemed to be a bit of a distraction at times. Really, that's the only flaw I can find with Godspeed. Everything else is in its proper place.
As has been commonplace throughout most of Cradle Of Filth's career, not everyone from Thornography is around this time. Also, only four members (Dani, Dave, Paul and Martin) are listed in the liner notes as being full members of the band (and shown in the picture), although Charles and Rosie are also mentioned as the live guitarist and keyboardist respectively. Sarah Jezebel Deva is also featured on the album, though not considered a "core" member.
The second CD offers two more tracks that were recorded during the sessions but had to be cut from the final result due to length, two songs from Harder, Darker, Faster: Thornography Deluxe, a cover song, two demos, a remix (the weakest of the offerings on the bonus CD) and two live tracks. I'm hoping that since this was made available in the beginning, there won't be a re-release of this album within a year or so, an annoying trend in music today.
Highlights:
The Death Of Love
The 13th Caesar (it took a while though - the vocals on the chorus were a putoff for me at first)
Honey And Sulphur
Darkness Incarnate
Ten Leagues Beneath Contempt
All said and done, this is an excellent release from Cradle Of Filth, easily one of their better efforts. I'd give it four and a half stars if I could, only because of how I thought Doug Bradley's lines affected the album. However, that's not enough to drop it down to a four because I can't do halves.
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Summary: Cradle of filth does it this time! 2008-11-12
Comment: I must confess that I was really dissapointed with thornography and a little bit with nymphetamine. I think they lack the chilling atmosphere and the power that was present in midian, cruelty and damnation. Luckly, this is not the case of godspeed on the devils thunder! I would rather say that this album is better than damnation and it is at the same level as midian and cruelty. This is beacuse the songs are harder, faster and damned! they give chills down my spine as they have haunting keyboads, Sarahs signature vocals and a male baritone that really adds to the sick and disturbing atmosphere! the guitar solos are great as well as dani filth vocals! they sound very devilish and varied like in the past great albums! the lyrics and the concept of the album are great and seems like this album could turn to a black symphonic metal musical! do yourself a favour and buy this album!
best tracks for me are: intro plus shat out of hell, the death of love, the 13th ceasar, tiffauges plus tragic kingdom, honey and sulphur, midnight creatures....and darkness incarnate!
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