THIS COMBINATION WILL BE ALSO in THEIR NEW ALBUM Sometimes, It Seems, the Monsters Are Very Real

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CRADLE OF FILTH Release Date Pre-Order Start Cryptoriana – The Seductiveness Of Decay uu 22/09/2017 uu 12/07/2017

uu Digipak and both 2LP’s contain two bonus tracks uu advertising in many important music magazines JUL/AUG/SEP 2017 uu album reviews, interviews in all important Metal magazines in Europe’s JUL/AUG/SEP 2017 issues uu song placements in European magazine compilations Price Code: CD03 uu spotify playlists in all European territories NB 3805-0 CD-Digi uu retail marketing campaigns (incl. 2 bonus tracks) uu instore decoration: flyers, poster A1 uu Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Google+ organic promotion uu Facebook ads and promoted posts + Google ads in both the search and display networks, bing ads and gmail ads (tbc) uu Banner advertising on more than 60 most important Metal & Rock Price Code: CD04 NB 3805-2 CD websites all over Europe uu additional booked ads on Metal Hammer Germany and UK, and in the Fixion network (mainly Blabbermouth) uu video and pre-roll ads on You tube uu ad campaigns on iPhones for iTunes and Google Play for Androids uu banners, featured items at the shop, header images and a back- ground on nuclearblast.de and nuclearblast.com uu features and banners in newsletters, as well as special mailings to targeted audiences in support of the release DARK AND EPIC – THIS COMBINATION WILL BE ALSO IN THEIR NEW ALBUM Sometimes, it seems, the monsters are very real. We live in increas- unique and loyal to our previous incarnations,” Dani Filth states. “We ingly dark times and it is the duty of the most inspirational musicians mutate, breed and run totally amok with this album. Plus we covered Price Code: LP18 to create a soundtrack that provides both escapism and a jolting dose ‘Alison Hell’ by ANNIHILATOR, a thrash metal classic that has been NB 3805-1 2LP (black in gatefold) of real world grit. For the last quarter of a century, CRADLE OF FILTH on our proverbial lips for centuries!” have assumed the role of dark metal diarists, exploring the amorphous A monstrous tour-de-force of utterly distinctive but reassuringly de- horrors that lurk in humanity’s shadows and reveling in the opulence structive heavy fucking metal, laced with spectral disquiet but delivered of mortal sin across centuries powered by bleak romance and a lust with muscular aplomb, »Cryptoriana« was conceived during the sum- for the sensually grotesque. mer of 2016 as CRADLE OF FILTH convened in Ashok and Škaroup- Price Code: LP20 Formed in England in 1991, CRADLE OF FILTH generated an imme- ka’s native Czech Republic, before being meticulously pieced together NB 3805-4 2LP diate underground buzz with their early demos, before stamping their by the band and now long-time producer Scott Atkins back in the UK (PIC in gatefold) authority on the UK’s burgeoning black and death metal underground during the first half of 2017. From the exhilarating melodrama of with their debut album, »The Principle Of Evil Made Flesh«, in 1994. opening two-fisted salvo ‘Exquisite Torments Await’ and ‘Heartbreak A monstrous blend of ornamental terror and pummeling vitriol, it And Seance’ onwards, the twelfth CRADLE album manifestly repre- marked the band out as a unique proposition and one of few mod- sents yet another wild expansion of the band’s sonic manifesto across ern bands capable of driving heavy music forward while honoring its nine epic and elaborate new anti-hymns and, as Dani mentions, a fer- traditions. Not surprisingly, a combination of front man Dani Filth’s vent blast through Canadian thrash legends ANNIHILATOR’s ageless uu Tracklists: insanely evocative lyrics and the intensely detailed and the com- ‘Alison Hell’. From ‘Achingly Beautiful’’s synapse-scorching holocaust pelling imagery that the band harnessed with great skill have since of the heart to the flesh-ripping, thrash-driven grandeur of ‘Wester, CD/DIGI: 01. Exquisite Torments Await ensured that CRADLE’s music has both endured and expanded over Vespertine’ and the pitch-black lysergic gargoyle attack of ‘You Will 02. Heartbreak And Seance the best part of three decades. A relentless series of invigorating and Know The Lion By His Claw’, »Cryptoriana« is simply the most musi- 03. Achingly Beautiful enthralling studio albums have kept the band firmly in the bloodshot cally and visually startling record in CRADLE’s history; one that grittily 04. Wester Vespertine public eye and despite numerous line-up shuffles and subtle stylistic upholds the band’s tradition of conjuring warped narratives that linger 05. The Seductiveness Of Decay 06. Vengeful Spirit shifts over the years, CRADLE OF FILTH have slithered from grand long in the memory. 07. You Will Know The Lion By His Claw triumph to grand triumph. “The album, both lyrically and artistically, is infused with Victorian 08. Death And The Maiden The 21st century has seen the band enhance their allure and fortify gothic horror and thus the title is a reflection of that,” Dani explains. Bonus Digi: their artistic achievements. Early albums like »Dusk…And Her Em- “»Cryptoriana« implies the Victorians’ infatuation with the supernat- 09. The Night At Catafalque Manor brace« (1996) and »Cruelty And The Beast« (1998) are widely re- ural, the grave and the fervently ghoulish. The subtitle, »The Seduc- 10. Alison Hell garded as classics, but it is more recent feral fare like 2008’s grim tiveness Of Decay«, further cements the attraction to death and the 2LP: conceptual splurge »Godspeed On The Devil’s Thunder« and, most glittering lengthy process of self-annihilation. To immerse myself in the Side A recently, »Hammer Of The Witches« (2015), the band’s debut for cur- subject matter and courtesy of his good friend H.G. Wells, I built a 01. Exquisite Torments Await rent label Nuclear Blast, that have cemented and sealed Dani and his time machine and went to live amongst the clandestine underworld of 02. Heartbreak And Seance 03. Achingly Beautiful cohorts’ reputation and renown. Currently enjoying a collective crea- late Victorian England...” Side B tive renaissance that is driving them to new heights of elegant fury, the Due to be unveiled on September 22, 2017, »Cryptoriana - The 01. Wester Vespertine band - Dani, guitarists Ashok and Richard Shaw, bassist Daniel Firth, Seductiveness Of Decay« is exactly the kind of commanding artistic 02. The Seductiveness Of Decay keyboard & vocal siren Lindsay Schoolcraft and mercurial percussive statement that fans of this indestructible British metal institution have Side C mainstay Martin Škaroupka - are more potent and devastating than grown to expect. The difference this time is that CRADLE OF FILTH 01. Vengeful Spirit 02. You Will Know The Lion By His Claw ever before as they approach the release of their latest and perhaps appear to have clicked into a new, higher gear and the results are 03. Death And The Maiden greatest studio effort, »Cryptoriana - The Seductiveness Of Decay«. fascinating, terrifying and electrifying in equal measure. As they pre- Side D (Bonus) “This album represents an onwards and upwards drive for the band, pare to introduce these stunning new songs to their dedicated global 01. The Night At Catafalque Manor building on the success of »Hammer Of The Witches« and pushing fan base, CRADLE OF FILTH have never been more powerful or their 02. Alison Hell further with the venomous musicology to create something that is both excellence so undeniable. Territory: World www.cradleoffilth.com · www.facebook.com/cradleoffilth · www.nuclearblast.de/cradleoffilth Style: Black Metal

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