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for your vulgar delectatIon decreed that hunger shall be sated by the dawn dawn... burnIng, aghast wIth the judgment that we spend upon the evIl we feed eternal hungrIness

exceedIng vIle deeds that were freed In thIs cathedral for your vulgar delectatIon decreed that horrors shall be waIted on the ones who crave sIns InnovatIons

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as the abhorrent Im a cemetery and a garden rIpe wIth near-putrefIed lIfe a phallus begInnIng to harden I hear the dead begIn to cry Hostis Humanis Generis my favourIte leaden lullaby now, the sun It sets on your nascent best of days tIme to rIse gorgon, calIbos and caIn tItans unrepentant lord lucIfer Insane if i am tHe Devil i sHall Honour my spiteful name tonIght thIs world Is burnIng to a fulsome serenade arch nemesIs, the rest of thIs lords, heed the call vast boudoIrs here wrIte a story. any story. but let It have dragons o gods of war In the jungle corrIdor I feel your haughty presence feastIng the mantIcore she stalks the shadows, burnIng the smoke Is thIck and reeks of blood her hunger an eternal yearnIng tantrIc, necromantIc a wank fantasy of faIth she relIgIously feeds a feverous all man-eater In the trees I see her eyes lIke slItherIng she of snakes monstrous thIs chImera In her beautIful anger screamIng from the pulpIt damnatIons oratory she Is the whIsperIng poIsoned dart and the breath of armageddon all around for your vulgar delectatIon InhIbIt nothIng, run free loose sore cauterIes before me rIpped, prolIfIc scars are tItbIts on whIch to feed thIs eve Is pure and pagan Its teeth are In the past

the abhorrent
slaughter courses through my enemIes once upon a crIme In tImes of favour I had lIved a god amongst the bold lIke a true poetIc savIour by the flames of rIghteous strangers my name blackened ten thousandfold death grew to know me as the abhorrent I was hIdIng In the thIckenIng mIre bIdIng for my war Im clImbIng up the years to get you from a dark abyssIc scheme lovecraftIan, part-martIan to the beast I used to be my laureates of gold are sold horns spear the reddened sea and by my transformed hand be sure the heavens hear your fInal screams tonIght thIs world Is burnIng to a fulsome serenade arch nemesIs, Im the genesIs of a ragIng plague about to break blue eyes rolled headlong to black when the darkness drew me to her caresses I was not always so cold once upon a crIme In tImes of old strIcken from the lIght as dIvIdIng curses poured but my people were dIssolved I was not always so cold I sIng desolatIon on the breath of centurIes brIngIng annIhIlatIon I had lIved a god amongst the folds of creepIng epIc faIlure but my people were dIssolved by the flames of rIghteous strangers my name blackened and deeds annulled they grew to know me

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on the phIlosophy of a prurIent knIfe on sacred eves Ive asked for sacrIfIce mere moments of atonement for your despIse a stern belIever that the great deceIver Is your precIous god whose preachers saw me demonIsed destructIve wIckedness Is on Its way

for your vulgar delectatIon

welcome wIth a stench of mIsadventure lIbertInes and sIblIng thIngs a grIm slIther forth through the gateways hIssIng denture the moon, one up on the chateau battlements gIlds thIs torchlIt drIve to shangrI-la thIs solstIce calls lIke the pIper to rodentIa come joIn thIs hIve of masqueraders dark royaltIes of ancIent caste feast In splendour that hunger shall be sated by the dawn the erotIc and the wIcked dance alIke vIrgIn cunts aquIver at thIs foreplay for the spIteful the cellars smelt abrIm wIth cracked wIne and racked women are spIced for even marquIs appetItes screams an aphrodIsIac In marble ballrooms of delIght for your vulgar delectatIon decreed thIs eve Is pure and pagan Its teeth are In the past for the blackest ever nIghtfall

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mantIcore
the embodIment of evIl In a body full of raptures anthropophagous mantIcora sphInx wIll sIng her song and coloured In lullabIes death endorsed Invades our lands gIgantIc, pyromantIc a beast of naked flame pantIng blackened masses from her opulent godhead Ill-barbed are those tongues spread wIngs eclIpse her frame and In her deep crevasses kundalInI vents unfed In darkness her fastness threshed wIth fleshIng teeth she comes to mastIcate you whole she Is the bane of mothers grand leveller of maa kalIs mardI gras press the sIlent vIolIn of frIsson over horror In my forced hand are mastered by the mInatory walls plastered wIth the base relIef of baser glorIes ma cherIe debauchery deflower of my lIfe untIe theIr bonds and push these fantasIes to ever greater storIes the heathen hour strIkes wrong, the rItes beasts ravage for your soul as lovely entrapment snaps her fIngers, hell comes crawlIng let the cream of sInners learn at last

what man would damn the world to summon her? pray sIlence lest she stoops to conquer ten thousand pIllars In her heart uphold a cracked palace of frozen kIllers and the mIrror In her soul polIshed black for scryIng nIghtmares bubbles wIth a lust that yearns to burn agaIn razor backed, she attacks empIres battle cat a creature of the whIte devIls rule mythIcal and mystIcal provInces wIll recall the perverse acId queen be stIll

the swarm of refugees from her pall wIth a voIce of the choIcest deadpanned In paIn awful claws hold rapport wIth the skIns of mankInd she Is the whIsperIng poIsoned dart and the breath of armageddon all around the embodIment of evIl In a valley full of raptors a lIck of fIre on her lIps as sIlent as a wIll o wIsp she comes amongst you all, tIgressIve blazIng In her prIde hellraIsIng horrors from the dark-sIde mantIcore mImIckIng vIctIms

sheol buIlds golem and thIs offence to nature Is huntIng Independence the more I wallow In grIef the more fatalIst I fall to thIs engorgIng beast bloated wIth dIsease

and by theIr gleam the shadows grow to be thIs soul Is sIck wIth wIcked exploratIon my vulgar habIts stItched the rabbIt hole a welcome mat for InfestatIon lIsten to them laugh for the roads to glory goad you thIstles on the path

the greatest traItor of them all a psychophantIc grease that clIngs lIke a shroud thrown over me a coat of golden fleas

always cast by the one who knows you from wIthIn the mIrror

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here forms a knotted sorrow the vIvId grasp of fadIng faces storm clouds plot to follow I wander despondent, a curse on the grave her haIr In my locket, a lock of nIghtshade and there In my pocket, I nurse the charade her rIng Is awaItIng her back I watch her from shadows, parIah by day I sleep In dark belfrIes and cellars away from the ungIvIng lIvIng, theIr neurotIc plague has turned her, as I to the black faster beats tHe Drum of Dark arcanum marIe I turned a deaf ear to heaven when the evIl eye accompanIed me youll see I am no further needed In the mIrror by my pallId reflectIon I thIrst so perversely, the worst Is thIs crave for sweet scarlet blood from a harlot parade of dutIful vIctIms I beautIfully take wIth delIcIous malIcIous Intent a gIft from a goddess who toyed wIth her game the prIce of my nIghts InfIdelIty paId at the altar of her never falterIng blade of Infernal nocturnal descent faster beats tHe Heart of Dark arcanum so I walk the moonlIt quarters lIke a drIven beast of prey a catalyst for madness, slaughter gIven the leash to play

pallId reflectIon
from those loved and left betrayed dream-dappled streams of sunshIne dread fogs shall dIssIpate as red skIes descend on graveyard floors where the dead exhIlarate my Heart is Gone taken by a niGHtmare bourGeois creature now you belonG to your sick womenaGerie n, n, no, no Im not the reason for thIs bleedIng n, n, no, no my past Is fast leavIng me aghast In purgatory marIe I turned a deaf ear to heaven when the evIl eye accompanIed me youll see I am no longer greeted In the mIrror by my pallId reflectIon so I stalk the moonlIt quarters lIke a drIven beast of prey a catalyst for madness, slaughter gIven the season I taste the true nature of thIs secret caste thIs devIl undone soars free at last... Im detrItus to my chosen a ghost for all her days thus Is cocytus frozen

frost on her pIllow

facedown I sprawl In the forests cathedral where she lIes In thrall to a slIppery coffIn I fIrst saw her grIn In thIs graven laIr my heart startIng to canter snow whIte skIn and raven haIr lIps full red as a blood decanter but hatred hunted there In tyrannys mIrror magIckal rItes turned wIth jealousy on a young reflectIon back then sprIngs breeze sweetened the nIght now the evenIngs are longIng shadows delIght and frost on her pIllow glItters by the moonlIght months saw me lost to her elegant, decadent ways thIs past mIdnIght cInderella wIth a smIle lIke the wInter sun on a mIsty day and star-grazIng eyes raIsIng cappellas but poIson stunted there seven trees weavIng arbour on nIghts spent In ecstasy wIcked wIlled to sleep theres frost on her pIllow at the cost of mournIng now the lands fall grey, devIls revel and obey a cruel beauty drIfted from a dark novella the queen of hearts tarred by the cards shes swIft to play In turrets over all, where angels smell her ways the kIngdom wrIthes In a bed of dementIa mIsadventure strIdes Instead a sore, wIlde pIcture lIke dorIan gray pressed agaInst the glass In paIn one fInal graven kIss to say my love i will avenGe those fleetIng hours flowers bloomed beneath the tree-entangled moon why dId you have to leave so soon my IllumInary frIend? but hatred hunted there In tyrannys mIrror justIfIed spIte turned armageddon on a stunned reflectIon back then hells freeze strangled the nIght summer Is comIng new flames IgnIte and frost on her pIllow Is lost to mornIng lIght our faIrytale Is over my love lIes dead

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hIssIng through the mIrror as they slIther over me now before huge onyx wIngs behInd despaIr arIse they splay nIght skIes wIth desolatIon and the devIl never lets go fate caught me In flagrante delIcto shame taught me hells self-obsessIve fresco ruled by horrors grue, no butterfly become cocooned In utter guIlt the gutters sIlt has overrun my rue transcendence I pray you see the lIght by sIren fantasIes serpents curl about my goals
set them free

neath theIr woodland awnIng she fell foul to wItchcrafts desIgns a weepIng wIllow

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these kIllIng fIelds wIll yIeld to new horIzons so cyclopean wIth the advent of our resurrected lords sIdIng wIth the tItans cast Into the ancIent dark of tartarus below the underworld these ancIent bastards bore theIr agonIes or, locked In slumbrous nIghtmares twIxt the spheres or neath the seas they slept untIl the rIghtIng of the cosmos they slept untIl the blIghtIng of the nIght sky let them loose on you and me welcome thIs return tItanomachIan and vatIcan-hearsed the mass enslavement of a passIve unIverse In nary a day the earth was burnIng where natures russet beauty grew the roses of utopIa the stench of vented corpses floats abroad

huge onyx wIngs behInd despaIr

a psychophantIc grease that clIngs lIke a shroud thrown over me a coat of golden fleas and by theIr gleam the shadows grow to be thIs soul Is sIck wIth wIcked exploratIon my vulgar habIts stItched the rabbIt hole a welcome mat for InfestatIon fettered from the get go lIsten to me now for the road to glory goads you thIstles on the path bloated wIth dIsease

sIdIng wIth the tItans

levIathans and krakens colossal horrors rIsIng forth from oceans spewIng tsunamIs lIke heralds of malevolence dIspensIng holocaust the grandIose ballet of death and ravaged flesh the span of mankInd shut down

In one massIve shattered fuckIng breath a slIce of moon thrust a fatal glow on theIr cold relentless freedom from core to crust and conquered pole to pole reconfIgurIng for a fecund second eden I had glImpsed thIs hell before thIs twIsted fungoId boschIan garden of InsanIty an Infested nevermore rIfe wIth delIghts to annIhIlate humanIty gods fell upon us Insects wIth world-devourIng maws

always cast by the one who knows you from the dark we are less than worms and vermIn black clouds low and roll shIpwrecked In my psyche

when natures empty bounty dIed, I dreamt thIs tragIc sIght we precognItIoners just tuned the sIgnal to you all amplIfIed, the vIsIon frIed, vast gates drew open what slathered forth began the fall sIdIng wIth the tItans shalt wItness the explIcItness of theIr rule but I shall be rewarded our last mIstakes to whIch awake past masters, mad and cruel
pulsIng magnetIc stars were rIght

and take my place amIdst the black for what else Is there left to do save usher these monsters back? I welcome thIs return I welcome thIs return mountaIns of perversIon, elder versIons and worse the mass enslavement of a passIve unIverse In nary a day temples were turnIng on judgement day Im sIdIng wIth the tItans...

Dreams amass niGHtmares are risinG Dreams amass unsympatHisinG Dreams a massacre I have left bereft the flesh sanctuary for the graIl of woe now suddenly I see lIke Innocent breath through a perfumed harem a gash of lIghtnIng tearIng ashen skIes betray the scene a deathless army, the greatest never been lurks frIghtenIngly sIlent hangIng on the fatal call for carnage come tHe awful sunDerinG tHe Devilment is tHunDerinG these lush pretence dImensIons wean come tHe awful sunDerinG tHe Devilment is tHunDerinG fellow travellers tread careful hell awaIts dIethyl dreams

seekIng ways back to our world eldrItch curators scheme horrors rush upon us as we flee I plunge on a comet, vomIt the sea lunge uprIght to flames advancIng on me dancIng lIke mardI gras dark company Dreams amass niGHtmares are risinG Dreams amass unsympatHisinG Dreams a massacre I am rIdIng hIgh tonIght In celebratIon of my role Dreams amass niGHtmares are risinG Dreams amass unsympatHisinG Dreams a massacre I wIll leave relIeved my flesh sanctuary for the graIl of woe

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succumb to thIs slIcker genesIs the serpentIne wIsh of a decadent stranger thIs fIxed InsIstence from a twIsted out-of-mInd he Is scum to hIs kInd slummIng wIth the cast of hIs vast ImagInarIum darkness come refIned the paralysIs of hIssIng ImmInent danger hIs kIss persIstent, lIps whIsper hIs desIgn thIs phIlIstIne Itch caught pIssIng In the manger Is never dIstant from unresIstant sIdes succumb to thIs he wIll promIse the earth laughIng wIth the grasp of all past denomInatIons a master of rebIrth i cast tHee out witH tHe power investeD please leave me be my Heart is a biblical wreck cease and just see I rule thIs wIde-eyed world unmolested IncreasIng fantasIes wIth a wave of my hand and hIgh tIdes of turnIng freed from the dIzzyIng breeze of quarantanIa beauty swoons In caresses of nature pleasures of the rooted flesh awaIt her the taste of heaven for endeavourIng man to a greater measure of temptatIons folly flee Demon flee numb wIth blIss, lIcked of menaces succumb to thIs wIcked nemesIs

succumb to thIs
lo! the splendour of the throne the feastIng spread of best harvests pIcked clean off the bone the shInIng kIngdoms blent agaInst red sunset skIes

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as far as we can Discern, tHe sole purpose of existence is to kinDle a liGHt in tHe Darkness of beinG -carl junG sometImes red curtaIns fall before the act has headed for the wIngs as on that nIght dIsaster crawled out from the stalls... suddenly the dark, the thIckest stygIan dark pressIng on all sIdes wIth vertIgo runnIng from the quIckest In the sIckest abyss my spIrIts lIfted by an angel of woe a dredged up dreadful past drags dIscordant thoughts my way unforgIven and drIven to despaIr I sense the mordant wraIth azazel standIng there now the vIsIon sImmers I spy a dIstant gleam racIng ever closer through thIs persIstent dream and by Its welcome glImmer wrIthIng Into sIght the brutIsh gropIng nIghtmares that hIde besIde the lIght then a roar and a voIce lIke a prIde of lIons thunders from the maw In a blackened mass the creatures flee screamIng bloody murder as a shInIng gateway opens for me death, the great adventure at the perIl of my soul I welcome death, the great avenger spared thIs awful realm where those who stalk the lIvIng haunt the murk untethered pleasures keep them tIed to flawed humana floatIng upward stIll, to where the tunnel mouth reveals two mantIcores that ward an ebon door I muster lean resolve, as the lumInance dIssolves and I am thrust headlong before theIr venomous jaws

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and everywhere the scent of better wonders set desIres to fIery rIse toniGHt all tHe stars burninG briGHt are but a canopy for me a cinDerella story, stellar jealousies are rife for my prince HolDs a Divine riGHt enliGHteneD witH tHe Glorious blInd faIth falls for the fIrst seductIon InductIon Into halls of shame wIth classIc joys and fresh allures lIfe leads fantastIc overtures inDulGe, only tHe coy abjure thIs orgIastIc rIde sIgh! hIs smIles just a laceratIon wIth a fascInatIon for the massIng dark sIde and he means war... the paralysIs of hIssIng ImmInent danger hIs kIss persIstent, lIps whIsper hIs desIgn numb wIth blIss, lIcked of menaces thIs phIlIstIne Itch caught pIssIng In the manger Is never dIstant from hIs soul-corrupted prIze IconoclastIc InnovatIons growIng empIrIcal succumb to thIs he wIll show mIracles buIldIng on the fast succumb to thIs wIcked nemesIs

death, the great adventure

I am In darkness agaIn but here accursedness Is vastly deeper unforgIven and gIven to torment I am nothIng grotesque, bereft of judgement thIs abyss, a voId where strIpped of all but self one must wIsh to be destroyed to pass on somewhere else beyond thIs pIt of wIcked shouts madness and fallacIes aeons I faIled to raIl my doubts before fear left love savIng me then a roar and a voIce lIke the clash of tItans thunders from the maw In a seethIng mass the horrors flee screamIng bloody murder as a shrouded sky opens Immensely lIsten! what eden shall arIse abundant from the clIffs that stunt hells redundant crIes? a vIew of breathtakIng beauty unveIls, as the sun dIsperses perversItIes death, the great adventure for the glory of my soul I welcome death, the great avenger the damaged man revIves wIth dawnIng truth, thIs mornIng suIts the world I left abruptly In exaltatIon, I fInd myself alIve near-death to steer a lIfe long-led corruptly the sweet sIlver chord that keeps me moored I know that heaven sent her from the cold to hold her face agaIn I rose from death, the great adventure

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burstIng wIth madness the moon shall derange the ether caresses my veIns cursIng the feverous reIgn I taste the change lIps curl, my grIp starts to harden maelstroms are loosed In the garden angels wIll whIsper bane hIdden meanIngs In the teachIngs of paIn tIme warps wIth theIr kIss bestowed agaIn go go go tIdal vertIgo back Is an arrogant front truth Is a lIe, suIcIdal eyes nIghtmare hellucInatIons, bare mountaIn nIght

nIghtmares of an ether drInker

walpurgIs Is thIrstIng for souls my coven Is sloven for blood stIll muds the knolls vIsIons soar phantasmagorIcal collIdescopIc, whettIng the oracle fast awake to make thIs dreamland obey forsakIng others for the chasIng of prey I take another draught, fates spIrIt me away go go go wIcked vertIgo IntoxIcatIon Is a fur worn about stItched arctIc shoulders It sets thIs melancholy beast to purr lost In blIss, the moorIng slIps hyde Is hIgh and mIghty In veneratIon of hIs role

plummet from the summIt of thIs pIssed up...

sInfonIa
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Dani filth
INCANTATIONS, CURSES, ROARS, SCREAMS, GUTTURAL UTTERINGS, IMPARTED WISDOM, SOME UNTRUTHS, SEXUAL WHISPERINGS, PROPHECIES, POSSESSION, SPEW, RACKET.

paul allender
razor wire fire, buzz saw, sour chords, dark cosmic vibration, electric field distortion, insect swarm, white noise, death ray, racket.

The BesTiary
Cradle Of filTh On This phOnOgraphiC reCOrding were dani filTh - diCTiOnary Of The Vulgar TOngue paul allender - rampanT guiTarsOnism marTin marThus skarOupka - gTTerdrummerung und OrChesTraTiOn The manTiCOre and OTher hOrrOrs, Cradle Of filThs TenTh COmmandmenT in meTal, was prOduCed By sCOTT aTkins, dani filTh, paul allender and marTin skarOupka under seVere COsmiC CirCumsTanCes. reCOrded, mixed and masTered aT grindsTOne sTudiO, suffOlk By sCOTT aTkins. VOkills exTraCTed By mark harwOOd aT springVale sTudiOs, ipswiCh, suffOlk. alBum engineered By sCOTT aTkins, wiTh addiTiOnal TheriOnship frOm mark harwOOd and dOug COOk. Bass aChe By daniel firTh. lead female VOiCe By luCy aTkins. ChOir COnduCTed and arranged By will graney. manTiChOral pleasures - Jill fallOw, sCarleT summer, luCy aTkins, india priCe, JaneT granger, peTra sTiles-swinTOn, aniTa kilpaTriCk, rOBerT l. friars, daniel OxBlOOd, JOseph kelly, Jasper COnway. musiC wriTTen By paul allender, marTin skarOupka, and dJ gunnarsOn. all lyriCs By dani filTh. puBlished By Cradle Of filTh musiC lTd. Band images CapTured By James sharrOCk@Burningeye.COm.au COsTumes and glamOur - kerry wesT and sam nOrman. COVer lOVeCrafT and wiTCh arT - maTT ViCkersTaff @ darkwaVearT.CO.uk wiTh addiTiOnal images By TraVis smiTh (pages 6 & 20) and kewin miCeli (page 2). Very graphiC layOuT By riChard BeeChing. myThiC, prOlifiC mOdels - rOxy C and Calle maeVe. Band TyrannagemenT - fay wOOlVen, in phase managemenT lTd www.inphasemanagemenT.COm mOnsTer BOOking agenTs rOw - paul BOlTOn x-ray TOuring usa - miChael arfin, JusTin hirsChman - agi legal represenTaTiOn - Tim nOrThrOp aT nmd sOliCiTOrs. Cradle Of filTh play aT eaTing The resT Of The Band digesTiVely.
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Martin 'Marthus Skaroupka

Thunderbolts, warhammers, machine gun salvo, pneumatic fellatio, a painful tattoo, seismic blasts, soul breaking, blitzkrieg, racket. Fantasia, Bombast, Horror soundtrack, Gorgon organs, blac keys, moodswings.

Manticore

, also spelled Mantichora or Manticora, is a legendary animal having the head of a woman (often with horns), the bewinged body of a lion, and the poison-barbed tail of a dragon or scorpion. The earliest Greek report of the creature is probably a greatly distorted description of the Caspian tiger, a hypothesis that accords well with the presumed source of the Greek word, an Old Iranian compound meaning man-eater. Medieval writers used the Manticore as a symbol of the Devil and as a portent of extreme evil, and it was often cited as an allegory of the sin of Fraud, conceived as a bestial chimera with a beautiful woman's face. Later the Manticore became embroiled as being the true nature of the British Empire's occupation of the Indian Provinces, the lion rampant repainted as a cruel, sadistic monster.

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The Unveiling Of O The Abhorrent For Your Vulgar Delectation Illicitus Manticore Frost On Her Pillow Huge Onyx Wings Behind Despair Pallid Reflection Siding With The Titans Succumb To This Nightmares Of An Ether Drinker Death, The Great Adventure Sinfonia

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