Damnation and a Day

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Damnation and a Day
Cradle of Filth - Damnation and a Day.jpg
Cover art by John Coulthart
Studio album by
Cradle of Filth
Released10 March 2003
RecordedParkgate Studios, Battle, East Sussex, and New Rising Studios, Peldon, England, August–September 2002
Genre Extreme metal
Length76:53
Label Sony (Europe)
Epic (US)
Producer Doug Cook and Cradle of Filth
Cradle of Filth chronology
Live Bait for the Dead
(2002)		Damnation and a Day
(2003)		 Nymphetamine
(2004)
Singles from Damnation and a Day
  1. "Babalon A.D. (So Glad for the Madness)"
    Released: 3 March 2003
  2. "Mannequin"
    Released: 2 December 2003
  3. "The Promise of Fever"
    Released: 2003

Damnation and a Day (subtitled From Genesis to Nemesis...) is the fifth studio album by English extreme metal band Cradle of Filth. It was released on 10 March 2003 and is Cradle of Filth's only album on a major label, Sony Records, after which they transferred to Roadrunner. It features the one hundred and one-piece Budapest Film Orchestra including the forty-piece Budapest Film Choir. The album is partly based on John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost .

Contents

Background

In addition to the Miltonic arc, the album also features stand-alone tracks such as the Nile tribute [1] "Doberman Pharaoh" and the Aleister Crowley-influenced "Babalon A.D. (So Glad for the Madness)".

Recording

This is the first Cradle of Filth release since V Empire to feature only one full-time guitar player (Paul Allender), as former guitarist Gian Pyres quit the band shortly before the writing and recording process. Keyboardist Martin Powell played session guitars for the album as well as keyboards. This is also the first album to feature Dave Pybus on bass. He would go on to play on all of Cradle's subsequent releases until 2012. Narration on the first track of each section is by David McEwen, who played Kemper in the 2001 horror film Cradle of Fear (also starring Cradle frontman Dani Filth) and appeared in the video for "Her Ghost in the Fog", miming Doug Bradley's vocals.

A cover of Cliff Richard's "Devil Woman" was originally recorded during the Damnation and a Day sessions, but only surfaced on the special edition of Nymphetamine in 2005, re-recorded, with some of the lyrics altered ("feminine ways" became "nymphetamine ways").

The album's recording process was documented on Cradle's 2005 video release Peace Through Superior Firepower .

Videos

The album spawned two DVD singles for the songs "Babalon A.D. (So Glad for the Madness)" and "Mannequin". The former was directed by Wiz (who had previously worked with Marilyn Manson), and was modelled on Pier Paolo Pasolini's film Salò ; an adaptation of the Marquis de Sade's The 120 Days of Sodom . The latter, reminiscent of the films of Jan Švankmajer, was directed by Thomas Mignone, and featured stop motion animation by George Higham.

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Chronicles of Chaos 6.5/10 [3]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal 6/10 [4]
Entertainment Weekly B+ [5]

Damnation and a Day received a mixed response from critics. AllMusic wrote, "[Damnation and a Day] has some grand-sounding moments, and is recorded cleanly, with the symphonic and operatic elements being perhaps its best. But it is endless, and only a true Filth fan could tell one song from another", ultimately calling it a "taxing, less-than-monumental work that won't win them many new mainstream fans, if that's at all what they had in mind." [2] Influential extreme metal website Chronicles of Chaos wrote, "The songs are lengthy without exception, exploring multiple motifs, but the quality has been stretched out to breaking point. Whereas Midian offered us glossy slabs of great atmospheric metal, Damnation serves up overblown constructions that only capture your interest in sporadic bursts", before finishing with, "It is a real shame that Cradle's mainstream label debut should sound this misguided; one can painfully hear the effort that has been put into making Damnation and a Day a reality. What will sadden most CoF devotees is the reality that the insidious atmosphere that suffused The Principle of Evil Made Flesh through to Dusk... and Her Embrace has all but disappeared". [3]

Track listing

All lyrics are written by Dani Filth; all music is composed by Cradle of Filth (Dani Filth, Paul Allender, Martin Powell, Dave Pybus and Adrian Erlandsson)

I Fantasia Down
No.TitleLength
1."A Bruise Upon the Silent Moon"2:03
2."The Promise of Fever"5:58
3."Hurt and Virtue"5:23
4."An Enemy Led the Tempest"6:11
II Paradise Lost
No.TitleLength
5."Damned in Any Language (A Plague on Words)"1:58
6."Better to Reign in Hell"6:11
7."Serpent Tongue"5:10
8."Carrion"4:42
III Sewer Side Up
No.TitleLength
9."The Mordant Liquor of Tears"2:35
10."Presents from the Poison-Hearted"6:19
11."Doberman Pharaoh"6:03
12."Babalon A.D. (So Glad for the Madness)"5:39
IV The Scented Garden
No.TitleLength
13."A Scarlet Witch Lit the Season"1:34
14."Mannequin"4:27
15."Thank God for the Suffering"6:13
16."The Smoke of Her Burning"5:00
17."End of Daze"1:24
Total length:76:48

Personnel

Cradle of Filth

Additional personnel

Production

Charts

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