Cradle of Filth - Cruelty and the Beast

Artist: Cradle of Filth
Album: Cruelty and the Beast
Type: Full-length
Release date: 1998
Catalog ID: 11129-2
Label: Mayhem Records (Closed)
Format: 2CD, Extended edition
MP3 | 320Kbps | 01:36:10 | 187Mb

Tracklist:
1. Once upon Atrocity  01:43  instrumental
2. Thirteen Autumns and a Widow  07:14
3. Cruelty Brought Thee Orchids  07:18
4. Beneath the Howling Stars  07:42
5. Venus in Fear  02:20  instrumental
6. Desire in Violent Overture  04:16
7. The Twisted Nails of Faith  06:50
8. Bathory Aria (I: Benighted like Usher / II: A Murder of Ravens in Fugue / III: Eyes That Witnessed Madness)  11:02
9. Portrait of the Dead Countess  02:52  instrumental
10. Lustmord and Wargasm (The Lick of Carnivorous Winds)  07:30
11. Lustmord and Wargasm (The Relicking of Cadaverous Wounds)* 07:58
12. Black Metal (Venom Cover)* 03:27
13. Hallowed be thy Name (Iron Maiden Cover)* 07:10
14. Sodomy and Lust (Sodom Cover)* 04:47
15. Twisting Further Nails (The Cruci-Fiction Mix)* 05:32
16. Hell Awaits  (Slayer Cover)* 05:40 

This is a concept album based on the legend of the Hungarian "blood countess" Elizabeth Báthory (Báthory Erzsébet in Hungarian).

On the song "Bathory Aria", there is a guest appearance by Ingrid Pitt, who starred in the 1970 film "Countess Dracula" - a film based on E. Bathory, which is who the album is based upon.

Recorded from January to March at DEP International / Abattoir Studios, Birmingham, 1998.
Produced by Cradle of Filth and Jan Peter Genkel.

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