28 July 2008

New Cradle of Filth Album

Cradle Of Filth has set "Godspeed On The Devil's Thunder" as the title of its new album. The album is expected to be released in October via Roadrunner Records. The new labum is a 72-minute concept record about a legendary serial killer from the 15th Century, Gilles De Rais, a French nobleman who fought alongside Joan of Arc and accumulated great wealth before becoming a satanist, sexual deviant and a murderer.

"Godspeed On The Devil's Thunder" track listing:

01. In Grandeur And Frankincense Devilment Stirs
02. Shat Out Of Hell
03. The Death Of Love
04. The 13th Caesar
05. Tiffauges
06. Tragic Kingdom
07. Sweetest Maleficia
08. Honey And Sulphur
09. 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


Source: euro.thegauntlet.com

22 July 2008

The Nature of Evil

“Through metaphor, we can only paint a picture. The shapes and colors can only be realized through meditation on the metaphors and doing the work itself. There is no substitute for the latter, and, while many have not practiced Goetic evocation as classically described, they have evoked "unawares," over and over again, the same powerful forces and demons which have both helped and hindered them.”


“Evil is an "externalization" and "objectification" of something fearful, horrifying, or different. Evil can be a label for something as simple as a person or an object that frustrates us. Evil is pain.

Evil is the enemy. Evil is the Gods of other men. Evil is the night terrors. Evil is the overwhelming feeling of falling apart. Yet all these images are non-sense. Evil like other ideas exists because we as humans exist. Nature knows not Evil, neither Good, nor for that matter Law. These are creations of the human mind, "explanations" which help us quiet the "terrors of the night." The human mind requires the belief in "its" idea of order" for the sale purposes of the human mind. Thus the nature of evil is the human mind.”

Aleister Crowley, in The Nature of Evil

03 July 2008

Contracted

Leaves glow in dusk reflection

In a sea of dim light

Craving the shadows for protection

From the sun and is sight


Prospecting the oblivion

The eyes lure in the gallows

The manacles of ion

Black energy discharge in shadows


Contracted is the closure

That dies through day

From the light exposure

Entailing the decay


Yet, hope is timeless

Is the infinite of the night

And the body lifeless

In the joy of the light