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List Price: $18.98 | | Label: Roadrunner Records
Salesrank: 33805
Released: October 28, 2008 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Godspeed On The Devil's Thunder Track Listing:
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
Editorial Review:
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.
Godspeed On The Devil's Thunder Reviews:
WORTH THE WAIT! 
2009-09-22 - GOT THE CD AWHILE AGO. I LOVE IT. I LISTEN TO THE CD ALL THE TIME.WORTH THE WAIT FROM THE BAND
I am not in "filthy denial" about this release at all 
2009-06-16 - Don't get me wrong; I love Cradle of Filth. They are my favorite band of all time, and I've listened to them since I was in the tenth grade. Not a week has gone by that I don't listen to an album or a song of theirs since my purchase of "Damnation and a Day" back in 2003, shortly after I turned 16. Currently, I am of 22 years and I still love the haunting, beautiful, horrifying, hair-raising music that this band has made, from "The Principle of Evil Made Flesh" to their most successful "Midian". But "Godspeed on the Devil's Thunder" is, sadly, an obvious decline of Cradle's musical and lyrical talents (like "St. Anger" was to Metallica). Whether it's because Dani Filth is trying different things that aren't quite working, or because the current line-up of the band is so incredibly weak at bringing forth a sound that in no way, shape, or form can even compare to the brutality and melody of classics like "Dusk... and Her Embrace", I can't say it's one over the other. However, I can say that this album was a huge disappointment, even after I tried so many times to like it and find something about it that was outstanding. That isn't to say that there aren't any good tracks in "Godspeed..", because that isn't true, in my opinion (I enjoy "The Death of Love" and "Honey and Sulphur"). And it wouldn't be entirely fair to compare this release with the previous releases the band created back in their prime. All of this said, though, it's still a pretty awful album (and not in a good way, like "Vempire" was). Dani Filth's vocals reached their limits some time after "Nymphetamine", understandably so; I mean, could you scream your lungs out for ten years without something happening to your vocal cords? It's not his faded screams that really bother me in the end. It's his newly found method of songwriting that just doesn't take the songs up to the par that I would've expected. Read the lyrics from any song from "Nymphetamine" and compare them to "Godspeed..." and you'll immediately see what I mean. He's lost (or rather foresaken) his touch on that oh so clever, incredibly articulate, and wondrous gothic style of writing he used for earlier albums, and in turn, has starting writing in a more convential manner, which doesn't do anything for me. As far as the others in the band, the actual musicians, they aren't a "bad band" as far as that definition would read, but they don't have that extra satanic mojo to really make their sound anything special. The riffs are low and dull, much like a Korn record, and the drums sound hollow and distant. In a manner of speaking, I feel more like I'm listening to Avenged Sevenfold (ugh) than Cradle of Filth with this line-up. All I can really say to explain it is that the sound is so much weaker.
Granted, "Godspeed..." is a bit heavier than "Thornography" (the experimental, commercially-aimed release, which had a few catchy tunes that were okay, but the only song on that album that really stood out to me was "The Byronic Man"), but it isn't heavy enough, in my opinion, to be called Cradle of Filth. All bands have their rise and fall, though, and I have enough macabre memories of their music to keep me satisfied and headbanging in the darkness for a lifetime. So, in other words, if you feel like giving it a shot, go ahead, but be forewarned if you are a big fan of the band: you may regret your decision to purchase it.
cradle of filth
2009-05-28 - This is an excellent cd and would recommend this to anybody who is thinking of buying it
A different perspective
2009-01-06 - I am certainly not a COF aficionado by any means, as I don't know much about any of their other albums, their member's, or the group's background. I do know what my preferences are though. Just to put things into perspective, I grew up with groups like The 'Turtles', 'The Hollies', and then 'Cream', 'The Animals' and on up through the 'Stones', 'The Beatles', 'The Who', Jeff Beck, Steve Vai, Yngwie, 'Black Sabbath', 'AC/DC' 'Judas Priest', 'Iron Maiden', and almost everyone else in-between including 'Mahavishnu Orchestra' and 'Dream Theater'(you get the idea). More recently, I've journeyed upward and outward to 'Therion', 'Arcturus' (Side Show and La Masquerade) and in the last couple of months or so I have begun delving into the deeper and heavier bands ie. 'Dimmu Borgir', 'Sigh', 'Septicflesh' and 'Moonspell'. To make a long story a little longer, I consider myself a 57 year old Hard rock/Psychedelic/Metalhead and although I like the heaviness and deep atmospherics of COF, I'm not altogether hip on the thematic/religious lyrics, the (way) overuse of the man shrieking, or the repetitive use of the drum machine to acquire the "speedy" tempo of this album. I do like the female vocs. I bought this album based on the Amazon reviews but believe I could have spent my money better elsewhere. I don't hate the album. I have listened to it and will now file it away in the catacombs. I'm thinking it would be best appreciated by someone very much younger than I, as I suppose my folks thought "Blue Cheer" and "Iron Butterfly" would be back then. Enjoy yourself and happy listening..
don't call it a comeback 
2009-01-01 - Let me say that Cradle Of Filth do not make BAD albums. Some are good and some are great, but their last release, "Thornography", left a bad taste in a lot of fans' mouths. As with a lot of great bands, they all experience an album that sounds like they're just going through the motions, and "Thornography" sounded like that. But with "Godspeed", COF doesn't leave it in cruise control, they keep the foot on the gas throughout. I hadn't heard brutally fast tracks like this since "Midian". It seems Dani Filth is in his element when he focuses on one subject matter like my favorite COF release, "Cruelty and the Beast" or the underrated "Damnation and a Day". "Godspeed" is a solid chapter in the Book of Cradle.
