{"id":9284,"date":"2009-03-11T16:48:58","date_gmt":"2009-03-11T16:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=9284"},"modified":"2016-12-16T13:09:02","modified_gmt":"2016-12-16T18:09:02","slug":"album-review-cradle-of-filth-thornography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2009\/03\/11\/album-review-cradle-of-filth-thornography\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Cradle of Filth &#8212; Thornography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12149\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/cradle_of_filth.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/cradle_of_filth.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/cradle_of_filth-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>This is some <i>very<\/i> silly music. The first track &#8220;Under Pregnant Skies She Comes Alive Like Miss Leviathan,&#8221; comes in with a bombastic movie-soundtrack vibe, all robed-choruses and scratching cellos. Of course that&#8217;s all flown in, having little to do with the group. Yet it&#8217;s the best thing about the album. Think Metallica meets Dead Kennedys. Featuring lead &#8220;singing&#8221; that we&#8217;re supposed to think is straight from the bowels of Hell, in reality it&#8217;s merely cartoonish. Whenever decent instrumentation comes in &#8212; as in the bridge of &#8220;Tonight in Flames&#8221; &#8212; the stupid, stupid vocals ruin whatever marginal value might have accrued.<\/p>\n<p>What a fucking waste of time. As Count Floyd of <i>SCTV<\/i> used to say, &#8220;Ooh&#8230;scary!&#8221; What utter bullshit. This reviewer can&#8217;t make out what&#8217;s being sung about, and the music doesn&#8217;t increase interest to the point of caring. A few lyrics did jump out of the painful mix&#8230;words like &#8220;blood&#8221; and &#8220;enemy.&#8221; Ooh. Now I&#8217;m interested (not).<\/p>\n<p>The band does score some sort of anti-points for its silly-ass name: it takes some moxie to give yourself a name that evokes images of substandard daycare. Somebody call a social worker on these guys.<\/p>\n<p>Fans of over-the-top riffery and brute imagery can do much better than this. These greasepaint clowns didn&#8217;t get the memo: the I-gargle-with-glass vocal approach has worn out its welcome. This listener cannot think of a less pleasurable musical way to waste an hour of one&#8217;s life. The disc&#8217;s only saving grace is that it <i>could<\/i> work as the soundtrack to some equally-inane video game aimed at trenchcoat-mafioso wannabes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is some very silly music. The first track &#8220;Under Pregnant Skies She Comes Alive Like Miss Leviathan,&#8221; comes in with a bombastic movie-soundtrack vibe, all robed-choruses and scratching cellos. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12149,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2494,46,65],"tags":[2495],"class_list":["post-9284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awful","category-metal","category-review","tag-cradle-of-filth","cat-2494-id","cat-46-id","cat-65-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9284"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12151,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9284\/revisions\/12151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}