The Principle Of Evil Made Flesh

The whole cd tells a tale; one song leads to another. This is truly dark, but not in the typical mainstream hard core sounds you hear today, but this is the way Beethoven would have done it. There's more to it than just hard vocals and thrashing guitar, but the darkness is in the use of real and classical music. If you study music, you know what I mean.

Cradle of Filth’s earlier works, already had it on cd but wanted the vinyl version and what better than the blood splattered limited version!

CoF was off to a good start with this, their first studio album. Even though they technically aren't Black Metal this album was accepted by Black Metalists around the world as one of the best Black Metal albums of all time.

This debut CD from Cradle of Filth is a bit of a transitional album for the band. In their demo-era, they played very bad and generic (if you ask me) death metal, and on their next few CD's they were symphonic/gothic black metal. Here, we see a kind of crossroads between the two - the band seems to have one foot in the goth/black metal scene (vocals, keyboards, atmosphere, etc.), while the riffs still have a bit of "punch" to them which brings it closer to death than black metal. If you ask me, this is a "blackened death metal" album through and through. As far as the quality of the music, it's all very enjoyable if a bit immature - a lot of interesting ideas playing off each other (death metal riffs + vampire/goth atmosphere) but I'm not sure the execution is at it's best. I'm of the opinion that CoF perfected their sound when they released their third CD, "Dusk and Her Embrace" and fully embraced gothic black metal.

Well composed . Awesome riffs and great vocals. Highly recommended and appreciated by people who don't like to catagorize fine music regardless of genre. Appreciate it for the dark atmosphere, great lyrics , and excellent musicianship.

happy to have it the first album from cradle of filth with a big black metal soundcompared to their other work came in new and fast as I was asking forand not pricy

Finally own the first album! Hard core, melodic, intense..been listening to cradle since 2001

This is a must have album for Cradle fans. The best album, specially if you are into black metal, Nymphetamine and Thornography fans might not like this though, because those Cradle of FIlth albums were pretty... not themselves.

merveilleux pour ceux qui aiment la musique trash et métal ce groupe est super tout les albums foncez !!!!!! sans hésiter vous ne serez jamais déçu !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

After listening to Cradle of Filth's first album it is a very good first album has black metal under tons from start to finish enjoyed the raw production of this album it is a lot different from what we know them now. good album overall and those in extreme metal interested in checking it out go for it

Fantastic sounding & looking (white / blood splatter) 2017 limited edition repress on double 180 gram vinyl of this legendary Black / Death metal CoF album!

Spedizione veloce, i CD sono arrivati in perfetto orario e messi in una scatola di cartone un po' rigida. Possibilita' di danni (anche alle custodie dei CD) bassa.E ora... Metalloooo!!!

Nach über 10 Jahren Black Metal-Erfahrung kann ich getrost dieses Album als eines der besten in ihrem Genre empfehlen. Herausgebrüllter Hass trifft unaufgesetztes Drama, manche Songs haben ihre eigene Majestät (The Forest Whispers My Name), andere haben göttliche Intermezzos (der dramatische Mittel-Part von "The Black Goddess Rises", der finale Teil von "Summer's Dying Fast"). Pure Raserei trifft Dracula-Rhetorik, abgrundtiefe Screams & Growls treffen auf zarte Passagen..und das alles, ohne künstlich/gewollt zu wirken!Nach "The Shadowthrone" , "Storm of the Light's Bane" und "Stormblast" eines der besten Black Metal Alben aller Zeiten..no shit!