Damnation & A Day [Explicit Lyrics]

MUSIC
The music is amazing...filth have the fantastic ablilty to alter their sound according to concepts and themes within the songs, and that on which the album is based upon. Guitars crash and destroy heavenly deities whilst Paul, Dave and the addition of keyboardist Martin riff themselves to death. Despite only having two guitarists after Gians sudden departure filth seem stronger angrier and more agressive than before. As Dani hinmself said..it certainly dosent sound like a two guitar album.
The music is incredibly strong pulling you into the tide of the story and concept whilst matching it admirably. The biblical theme is echoed in the riffs (SEE doberman pharoah) and filth and co have even added egyptian sounding instruments (think sitars!) to add depth to the sound.The only complaint i have of this album is the fact Martin hasn't done any instrumentals. He did however write the choir sections...but the album lacks something in the fact it doesn't include such masterpieces as Creatures that kissed in cold mirrors...which i feel is a dying shame.

VOCALS
Next the addition of a 30 piece choir and film orchestra...which filth forked out thousands for...contribute heavily to the theme and sounds..layering Damnation with thickly textured angelic voices. Giving the album the quality of a horror soundtrack...Dani only completes the aural fest with his own unique and unrivaled vocals. Shrieks and tortured screams rent the air...hisses and spoken passages...prattled between deep dark grunts...in his own words these seriously are 'Dark Immortal Screams!'. Sarah Jezebel Deva also adds a heavenly touch with her also unrivaled and beautiful vocals particularly (my own fav) mannequin, in which she excels. Overall the album is littered with a huge peppering of all sex/type/range of vocals..becomming an increidbly rich offering...not forgetting narration from a fellow fiend from the Cradle of fear movie...reciting passages from the Holy Bible!!!!

CONCEPT AND PACKAGING
Once again an epic concept from Messrs Filth. The album traces the life of Feriluce (rearrange the letters to get Lucifer!)..from banishment from Hell...various romantic aqaintances he meets along the way...to nemesis. Not my favorite concept, and not as vampyric as some may like...but unarguably great! Design once again by John Coultard...each page of the cd booklet traces the story with exceptional graphic design and illustrational skills. This is a beautifully packaged and designed album-very apocalyptic and gothic.

This is definately an essential buy for any fans of Horror, Vampyres, and of course filth! Absolutely exceptional!

BEST TRACKS
Promise Of Fever, Serpent Tongue, Mannequin, Doberman Pharoah, Thank God For The Suffering.

I just wonder how Filth are going to develop from this album...and how they will manage to create a piece that excels Damnation........??

Darkest Wishes.....
To Damnation and beyond

Count Vladimir De Magpyre

First off, it should be said that if black metal isn't your thing, you probably won't like this album at all. It does have some classical appeal. However, if you prefer the musings of the likes of Coldplay this probably won't be your bag.

There was one thing that let down every album previous to "Damnation and a Day" - budget. Instead of swathes of strings and choirs of angelic voices we got the 'General Midi sound-a-likes'. (Though, to be fair, Dani Filth and co were doing the best they could.)

But now on a major label, the obviously very talented Mr Filth and company have secured the services of a large orchestra and an equally large choir. Substituted for the ‘MIDI’ affair of previous albums, the music now truly sounds epic, sweeping, and full of gothic majesty.

The long and the short of it: if you like your music heavy, gothic, beautiful, slightly unhinged and at times scary, Damnation and a Day is truly superb.

Song by Song -

Promise of fever - excellent start to the album, the first few notes are amazing as are the lyrics - 10/10

Hurt & Virtue - another brilliant heavy track. 9/10

Enemy led the tempest - one of the best on the album. more heavy drums and bass. 10/10

Better to reign in hell - fantastic, another excellent track. Dani's vocal is out of this world. - 10/10

Serpent tongue - not a great track. Quite tedious 8/10

Carrion - another great track. 10/10

mordant liquer of tears - ok, but nothing great - 8/10

presents from the poisened hearted - second best track on the album. love dani's vocal on this - 10/10

Babylon AD - great track, one of the singles. 9/10

Manequin - the first track i ever heard by Cradle. Didnt like them to start of but eventually got into it. excellent track. - 10/10

Thank god for the suffering - excellent ballad type song. 9/10

the smoke of her burning - without doubt the best track on the album - 10/10

there are five instrumentals, each one is very dark and atmospheric. brilliant 5/5 for all.