Thornography (Thornography - Cradle Of Filth)

Member Name: Frankingsteins

Product:	Thornography - Cradle Of Filth
Date:	24/05/08 (26 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: More confident than the previous album.

Disadvantages: Still just as bland.

Cradle of Filth's most recent album carries directly on from 'Nymphetamine' but is a little more accomplished in its execution of a stripped-down sound, even if the reintroduction of keyboard intros only serves to make them sound like a cheesy gimmick due to their absence in some songs. Dani Filth's vocals no longer scream for attention quite so much, even providing some clean singing in songs such as 'Tonight in Flames,' and although the band is clearly enjoying itself, playing a more simplistic and less atmospheric form of metal, they still aren't all that good at it.

The band's lead guitar position continues in its revolving door tradition, and Charles Hedger is perhaps the greatest deviation from the band's classic sound, making them sound more like a weak and raspy Iron Maiden. None of the songs are particularly loathsome, but none held my interest all the way through, and the album (and band at this point in its career) are staggeringly overrated in the metal scene. And the less said about the ridiculous cover of 'Temptation' (yes, that one), the better.

1. Under Pregnant Skies She Comes Alive Like Miss Leviathan
2. Dirge Inferno
3. Tonight in Flames
4. Libertina Grimm
5. The Byronic Man
6. I Am the Thorn
7. Cemetery and Sundown
8. Lovesick for Mina
9. The Foetus of a New Day Kicking
10. Rise of the Pentagram
11. Under Huntress Moon
12. Temptation (Heaven 17 cover)

Summary: Cradle of Filth's eighth album (2006).