Dusk and Her Embrace

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Customer reviews

review by: date: 2007-09-24 rating:
A gothic metal masterpiece
I'm amazed that a band so young could produce a work so accomplished as Dusk and Her Embrace. Cradle Of Filth are a band I've grown to love over the years and this release is definitely top of their discography. The eerie but beautiful intro of Humana Inspired To Nightmare is one of the best Cradle openers and sets the mood perfectly for the rush of heaviness on Heaven Torn Asunder. Dani Filth's vocals are the most evil I've ever heard, in fact I'd say this was the album he pushed himself to the limit on. The guitar melodies and riffs are amazingly good and where the odd solo appears it's a joy to listen (see if you can hear the nod to Iron Maiden of a few of them). The drumming is tight and precise as I've ever heard and the vocal passages and backing from Sarah Jezebel Deva enhance the haunting atmosphere.
The whole album is (and I'm sorry if this annoys some) a progressive metal masterpiece. Cradle creates on each song such beautifully heavy structures with guitars and black metal vocals mixed with the soft dramatic beauty of the keyboards and clean vocals.
The songs that really shine through are: Funeral In Carpathia, Heaven Torn Asunder, Dusk And Her Embrace and the wonderful Haunted Shores (guest starring the legendary Cronos).
I can't recommend this album enough to those into metal. Cradle Of Filth are one of the premier bands in British Heavy Metal and this album marks one of their finest releases.

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review by: date: 2006-08-13 rating:
Essential Purchase.........
....If you like this kind of music, it is one of their earlier albums and defiently one of the best, it is very dark and has great orchestral pieces If you are new to COF then this is defiently one to buy, any black metal fan i'm sure would appreciate this as well

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review by: wsora date: 2006-02-21 rating:
A Blend of Classical Sounds and Screaming (Black) Metal
What can i say about this masterpiece that hasn't already been said. It is absolutely stunning! This being cradle's third CD and possibly one of their moust astounding accomplishments. This album has lots of classical sounds going on from the grand piano sound through many of the songs, to the harpsichord at the beginning of 'beauty slept in sodom' through to the violin intro to 'haunted shores'. This album simply bleeds class. Dani's vocals are unworldly and extremely evil sounding on this release. Dani often goes from almost Peter Steele (type o negative) type baritone rumbling to ear splitting shrieks. Also special mention has to be given to Nicholas' drumming which (bar V Empire) sounds the best from his career with cradle. Also a special mention has to be given to Sarah and Danielle whose beautiful voices soar above the music throughout this album, especially the spoken word part in 'heaven torn asunder'. Now onto a track by track review.

1. Humana Inspired to Nightmare- 4* a very good intro but not one of cradle's best but still enjoyable enough and a good piece.

2. Heaven Torn Asunder- 5* possibly my favourite song on this album i absolutely adore this song especially Sarah's spoken word bit ('The most august sorcerers of hades...'). This starts off soft then builds up to a vehement musical massacre with dani spewing his guts as he screams 'storm choirs gather...'. Astounding.

3. Funeral In Carpathia- 5* this song is beautiful in composition. The guitar on the 'never leave me...' bit is super. Also once again Sarah and Danielle's voices are lovely and charming in comparison to Dani's screams.

4. A Gothic Romance- 5* not one of my favourite songs but has my favourite part of the whole album when Dani says 'portrait of a dead countess.' and Sarah screams manically. This song has great sampling of wolves atthe beginning which i also love.

5. Malice Through the Looking Glass- 4* this is my least favourite song on the album it is good just not breathtaking.

6. Dusk and Her Embrace- 5* What an amazing title track itis fabulous especially the ending. Wonderful.

7. The Graveyard by Moonlight- 5* i dont know why i just love this instrumental track it is so calming and tranquil.

8. Beauty Slept in Sodom- 5* wow that harpsichord is so cool. I know that sounds very sad but it sounds amazing. Also dani's vocals on this song are among some of the best he has done.

9. Haunted Shores- 5* the perfect song to finish the album it is very heavy. The ending is amazing with Cronos doing a very cool war speech.

Overall this album is amopng the most amazing cradle have released.

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review by: date: 2004-03-22 rating:
Dusk... And Her Embrace
This album is pure quality.. the sound is great, epic and atmospheric. My favourite tracks are Funeral In Carpathia, Dusk and her Embrace and Heaven Torn Asunder.

Popular songs A Gothic Romance and Malice... are good, but not as good in my opinion. Funeral In Carpathia has to be the best, awesome atmosphere and the "Never Leave Me" section. Dusk.. is a classic, all round genius and awesome blast beat sections. Heaven Torn Asunder has a great atmosphere, and somewhere in the middle there are guitar solos, drum solos AND bass solos. nice work, this is my favourite Cradle album out of the albums i have, ive got them all except Vempire and Principle of evil made flesh.. including the live album, video and compilation CD.


review by: hell_awaits_me date: 2003-05-21 rating:
Too good for itself!
When this lbum was released in 1996, it was a truly unique and amazing work of pure disgusting genious! A major improvement on their previous work, this album was deemed too good for Cacaphonous! But in my view, it was too good for what Music For Nations could offer them too! Although the production was a vast improvement, it was still too raw and scratchy, especially the drumming which lets down the unbelievably amazing songwriting! This was truly something new and unique, especially compared to anything they have released previously and since! Dani's voice reached new heights, with a lot more variety than the usual monotone screech, with a lot deeper and freakier vocals being used which still havent seen any other release! There are some truly frightening moments where Dani uses his voice to the best of it's ability and creates quite a hellish and demented racket. Along with (Who i do belive as) Frater Nihil's demented and dark tones, they create a very freaky atmosphere! Anyway back to the music, this is also the first album that saw the genious of Gian Pyres on guitar and Damien on Keyboards. The new line up was much better and more skilled than previous, and the whole album was re-recorded to improve it from the previous members' poor efforts! But still this album deserved more than it got! Nugget's of pure unmistakable genious like 'Funeral In Carpathia', 'Malice Through The Looking Glass' and the title track all deserved better production, they were just too good for their time and label! If they were re-recorded now, they could take their already classic status to much better hieghts. The re-doen version of 'Funeral In Carpathia' on the 'From The Cradle To Enslave' E.P. is just perfect in everyway! The whole way the eerie keyboard and guitar melodies are layered over Dani, Frater and Sara's screaming vocals with Nick barker's non-stop genious drumming pounding in the background and eeire Wolf samples create a truly beautiful atmosphere, as if you were actually standing in a rainy Carpathians Forest! Nick's drumming on this track and the title track is just amazing! In 'Funeral In Carpathia' he pounds his way almost non-stop through 8 minutes of sheer complexity, how can such a fat man have so much energy, i ache for hours after trying to immitate! anyone enough of my crap, just go and buy this album, it will amaze you whether you are a fan or not, apart from Midian this is their most intelligent and amazing release ever!

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