Cradle of Filth are an English extreme metal band from Suffolk Suffolk, England formed in 1991. The band's musical style evolved from death metal to a cleaner and more "produced" amalgam of gothic metal, symphonic black metal and other extreme metal styles, while their lyrical themes and imagery are heavily influenced by gothic literature, poetry, mythology and horror films.
The band has successfully broken free from its original niche by... [read more] - Cthulhu Dawn
Cthulhu dawnSpatter the starsDouse their luminosityWith our amniotic retchPromulgating the birthOf another Hell on EarthShadows gather poisoned henna for the fleshA necrotic cattle brandThe hissing downfall...
- Bloody Finger Song
I`m Waiting In my cold cell When the bell begin`s to chime reflecting on my past life and it doesn`t have much time cuz at 5 o`clock they take me to the gallows pole the sands of time for me are running low...
- Thank God For The Suffering
I, I still recall, the first fullmoon of mayÂ’neath whose rays we lay togetherAnd those bright nights on glassy wavesWhen we would glide lightly awayFrom the grainFor wicked flights of pleasureThose visions fadeLike...
- Bathory Aria
Snuffed tapers sighedAs Death left impressingHis crest of cold tears on the CountessBenighted like ill-fated UsherThe House of Bathory shrouded'Neath griefs dark facadeIf only I could have weptIn mourning by Her sideI...
- Suicide And Other Comforts
I pace, aloneIn a place for the deadOvercome by woeAnd here, I've grownSo fond of dreadThat I swear it's heavenOh sweet Mary,Dressed in grayRoll back the stoneWith these words scrawled in a severed handTears fall like...
- Dinner At Deviant's Palace
[INSTRUMENTAL]
- Amor E Morte
Her bouquets are wiltedToo long has She sleptTheir cruel red mouths darkenedTo bowed silhouettesI saw in a new moonWith Her scent on my breathBut then all to soonCame the hunger for fleshI held Her in eyes like...
- Scorched Earth ***a
Sunset, expect This to be your last with Our vast return As Death is set At three sixes where hill-beacons burn Darkness, undress Your descending skirts yield a thirsting altar Blood-red, yet still unfed Lips distend...
- All Hope In Eclipse
A thousand nights once succoured Me In the shadow of Miss Anne Thropy Sat gargoyle-limbed amid My licking flame A cruel tongue at work in Her secret vaults Sent Rebellion's embers into revolt The comming of extinction...
- Born In A Burial Gown
Sibilant and macabre Walpurgis sauntered in Skies litten with five-pointed stars The work of crafts surpassing sin As She graced Her window ledge - An orphaned gypsy nymph This issue of the forest's bed Skin flushed...
- Better To Reing In Hell
Heart in hand passed clasp of painIn dark lowland that set bad blood in veinsBurning, like penal fires roused to strainThe jagged-toothed skyline braced with crossesThe golden dawnLay lost to mist whereEmboldened...
- Mannequin
Led to other worldsBy the girls she curled withinI took their skins to see herBe my mannequinBe my mannequinI cannot rememberHow it was that we first metCurve of moon and haunted shoreThe stars were not those heaven...
- No Time To Cry
It's just a feelingI get sometimesA feelingSometimesAnd I get frightenedJust like youI get frightened toobut it's...(no no no) No time for heartache(no no no) No time to run and hide(no no no) No time for breaking...
- The Fire Still Burns
You thought it was goneBut the fire goes onAnd I thought you knew meI told you before'Til I settle the scoreThat I'll never run freeI have enough painAnd anger in my brainTo last many lifetimesYet still it growsAnd...
- Sin Deep My Wicked Angel
[INSTRUMENTAL]
- Hallowed Be Thy Name
I`m Waiting In my cold cellWhen the bell begin`s to chime reflecting on my past life and it doesn`t have much time cuz at 5 o`clock they take me to the gallows polethe sands of time for me are running...
- The Graveyard By Moonlight
[INSTRUMENTAL]
- Beauty Slept In Sodom
Death, spirit me awayMy anguished soul doth strainOn taut and twisted reinsYet, insatiate I still remainLike a proud, unfalled starThat dares thee from afarTo calm my thund'rous heartElse, rend it's knots apartSo I...
- Heaven Torn Asunder
Rise, ablaze, libidinousDevildom voyeursAscend to smother the lightNascent aeons confer....Chaos is spatFrom the black eternal seaSerrated mountains of mad shadowsCarving towards misdeedStormchoirs gatherA...
- Dusk And Her Embrace
When the sun has wept upon the waveless lakeAnd the mists steal in with easeCovened wolves are their eerie dissonant napesIn adoration of the moon and thee"They call as I to thee...."And I will come, as if in dreamMy...
- A Gothic Romance (Red Roses For The Devil's Whore)
Evening minuetto in a castle by the seaA jewel more radiant than the moonLowered Her mask to meThe sublimest creature the Gods, full of fireWould marvel at making their QueenInfusing the air with Her fragrant...
- Malice Through The Looking Glass
Take away the wineFor restlessness plagues me....I am assailed by a spectre profounderThan hatred and grief or the sum of their hideous crimeI shalt suffer this confessional mimeAwaiting the sun to set, crimsoning...
- Haunted Shores
Herodias and I have led a phantom cavalcadeThrough veiled and pagan history where superstitions reignedAnd Christendom sought to pervert, but poets of my nameSang of penumbral victories that sorcery had claimedThe...
- Funeral In Carpathia
Candelabra snuffed prey - silhouette weddedNightfall take my handSeduce me with silky timbred limbsGrant me thy dark commandOver the peaks framing tapestriesOf thick forest, dusk has filledWith Lucifugous kisses...
- Humana Inspired To Nightmare
[INSTRUMENTAL]
- Babylon A.D. (So Glad For The Madness)
I bled on a pivotal stretchLike a clockwork ChristBears sore stigmata, boredAnd as I threw Job, I droveMyself to a martyred wretchTo see if I drew pityOr pretty litanies from the LordSo the plot sickenedWith the...
- Carrion
Lurking in the shadeOf dark and fragrant treesShirking from the rageThat tore the heavens freeA vagrant AngelHis with span to seeThe garden swell with terrorsTo banish man and EveAnother fall from graceWhiplashed from...
- An Enemy Led The Tempest
As pride precedes the downfallSo he took His place before the firewallOf dissonant choirs whose faith in oneWas embraced in this wraith whose fate was hungBetween forgiveness and the damage doneAn electric scent over...
- Damned In Any Language
(A Plague On Words)"And there was war in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the Dragon, and the Dragon fought and his angels, and prevailed not. Neither was their place found anymore in Heaven. And the...
- A Scarlet Witch Lit The Season
(Instrumental)
- Hurt And Virtue
Distant vistas,Swathed in the haze,Of the reddening sunset,Fell to whispers,'Neath stares that marred desending skies,From the cusp of midnight mountians,Wending as a mist,Rebels truced with Feriluce,(In truth, few...
- A Bruise Upon The Silent Moon
"And the Earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep..."
- The Promise Of Fever
In the beginningRimmed with wind and stormA great black wrath of infinite mathSpat snarling into formAnd there was HeavenLit up with precious stonesEach one could fall but for the ruleOf Faith and love and stronger...
- Serpent Tongue
[Part 1]So adept was unspoken ManAt dusting ledgers of the seraphimThat Lilith swept across the broken landIn a whirl of lust to pleasure himThis bland Adam, a reaper of the sunIn bone dry season, for Eve was busy...
- Sleepless
And I often sigh I often wonder why I'm still here and I still cry And I often cry I often spill a tear Over those not here But still they are so near Please ease my burden And I still remember A memory and I weep In...
- Funeral In Carpathia (Be Quick Or Be Dead Version)
Candelabra snuffed prey - silhouette wedded Nightfall take my hand Seduce me with silky timbred limbs Grant me thy dark command Over the peaks framing tapestries Of thick forest, dusk has filled With Lucifugous kisses...
- Dark With Blood And ***
Sister midnight comes blasphemingScreaming in the keys of faith and fearUnentweining our spines twists me to kneeling...Spilling like the moonlight on her glistering rear Defiled at heartIn this perfect hellUnder red...
- Death Comes Ripping
Turn the lights down low And bolt the door up Future is coming Future rising up Whoa Shotgun blast, a demon piece of lead With both eyes open I wait up for the kill Feel the evil Feel the heat as I blast you open...
- Dawn Of Eternity
Winter ice - Terminal frost Closing eyes of the equinox Dimensional change - darkening skies The sphere is s***led till dusk Prophet dreams - ride the winds As black holes open for devouring Universal chaos in the...
- From The Cradle To Enslave
Two thousand fattened years like maniacsHave despoiled our common graveNow what necrophagous Second Coming backsFrom the cradle to enslave? Sickle constellations Stud the velts that welt the skuWhilst the Bitter...
- Nemesis
Tonight is the nightThe empowering wind that draws breath from despiteRoars ‘neath my wings as I soar with the end in sightChoirs igniteA swansong for LedaDeathknells for TroyTragedy blooms from one actI am...
- English Fire
Seven brides serve me seven sinsSeven seas writhe for meFrom Orient gates to RÂ’lyehAbydos to ThessalyAnd Sirens sing from sternBut now I cease to playFor I yearn to returnTo woodland fernsWhere Herne and his wild...
- Bestial Lust
She is open wide, She isn't hard to pleaseShe drives me *** wild I want her on her kneesShe floats and insists I am hot and can't resistShe suck me to the core [Now] I can't take no moreThat BitchShe turns me to a...
- Satyriasis
Glory and praise to thee in all the steepsOf Heaven where thou didst reign, and in the deepsOf Hell where fallen thy dream, silently.[From "Les Litanies de Satan"]
- Painting Flowers White Never Suited My Palette
Instrumental
- Medusa & Hemlock
Dim the lights, wrong the rites Toss the peurile cross away We are gashing from a venomous womb Burning bright, dead of night Pyres stain a milky way Lust is splashing the dark face of the moon In the Samhain mist We...
- Gilded Cunt
Your misery is worn as a veilTo hide bewitchment of the ugliest kindIn place of eve a bitter parody hailsDaggers from the swaggerOf a sodomiteÂ’s concubineBine (Bine)Gilded cuntOh, you gilded cuntYour thin pretence...
- Absinthe With Faust
Pour the emerald wine Into crystal glasses We will touch the divine Through kissed catharsis Let us pitch to the seven year itch Of the ultra-decadent To a tainted world and the painted girls That our fantasies spent...
- Filthey Little Secret
There hides a secret Deeply twined inside of Her mind A tried and confined regret That pines to fly south To this mouth of mine Pity Too long have these emotions Like potions, made me A sole castellan Trusted to keep...
- Swansong For A Raven
Forgive the dayÂ’sLast serenadesHer skies they bruise like Nordic womenDeep crimson stainsThat Death would claimHis robes of office swim inAs would IFor his dark eyeHas fixed, a basilisk, a scytheOn charred...
- Mother Of Abominations
Mother of abominationsOur Lady OverkillSmothering the congregationGrips the cosmic wheelA lover of accelerationNo mercy or brakes appliedI see dead stars collideIn her cold unflinching powerslideComets tear the...
- Nymphetamine
Lead to the riverMidsummer, I wavedA ‘V’ of black swansOn with hope to the graveAnd through Red SeptemberWith skies fire-pavedI begged you appearLike a thorn for the holy onesCold was my soulUntold was the painI...
- Coffin Fodder
The time has comeTo rise againFreedom lift thy sewered hemFree from beasts and skewered menMy dreams unrollTen thousand foldTheir world will never take meThey will never desecrate my soulThe stars I have graspedAre so...
- Filthy Little Secret
There hides a secretDeeply twined inside of her mindA tried and confined egretThat pines to fly southTo this mouth of minePityToo long have these emotionsLike potions, made meA sole castellanTrusted to keepThe weight...
- Nymphetamine (Overdose)
Evanescent like the scent of decay I was fading from the race When, in despair, my darkest days Ran amok and forged Her face From the fairest of handmaidens to A slick perverted wraith Nymphetamine Heaving midst...
- Gabrielle
Foul snake despairWhere once you darkened gardensAnother coils thereWhere twice you sliced all hope from meAnd left these present scarsAn insane love now burns aboveThe weft of incandescent starsHilt your dripping...
- Mr. Crowley
Mr. Crowley, what went on in your headMr. Crowley, did you talk with the deadYour lifestyle to me seemed so tragicWith the thrill of it allYou fooled all the people with magicYou waited on Satan's callMr. Charming,...
- Nymphetamine (Lezebel Deva Fix)
Lead to the riverMidsummer I waitA "V" of black swansOn with hope to the graveAll through red SeptemberWith skies fire-pavedI begged you appear, likeA thorn for the holy onesCold was my soulUntold was the painI faced,...
- Soft White Throat
- Devil Woman
IÂ’ve had nothing but bad luckSince the day I saw the cat at my doorSo I came into you sweet ladyAnswering your mystical callCrystal ball on the tableShowing the future,the pastSame cat with them evil eyesAnd I knew...
- Prey
Nightfall, in thrallI call her beauty to meWhose ebon-lidded eyes exciteShadows to wander through meWhose kiss glittered with sleepIs a thief come after darkTo steal away the leaden wreathsFrom my cemetery...
- Darkness Incarnate
'Something thicker than despairRides upon the midnight airThe smell of blood, the taste of preyWe spy you hiding Gilles de Rais'Under August swelterAfter banquet and soireeWhen spiced wine and songHave further heated...
- The 13th Caesar
When Joan was burntHe knew malevolenceAt the heart of allA cold and jagged abyss bled of senseThe throne he earnedThrough God's benevolenceStarted his own fallClothing ragged dogma in his own magnificenceHere the...
- In Grandeur And Frankincense Devilment Stirs
Narrator:"When light no longer rose to kiss me,I swore to tear Heaven asunderAs flights of fallen angels wished meGodspeed on the Devil's Thunder."
- Shat Out Of Hell
Eclipsing violent centuriesLike a dark scar over FranceEnter the nascent Gilles de RaisA warrior and a scholarHe fought for Joan Of ArcBefore she met with martyrdom in flamesFar from faerytaleA deathshead on his sailA...
- The Death Of Love
Where will you be they tense for warfare?What will you see with your innocence there?Where will you be my darling?Where will you be they tense for warfare?Where will you be when God is glorifying?There we will be...
- Sweetest Maleficia
He would rise triumphantAll done upOn a plume of raven wingsTrafficking with sycophantsSharing his cupAmidst other graver thingsAlchemists and sorcerers stitched his headWith the stench of pitch and myrrhThe devout...
- Midnight Shadows Crawl To Darken Counsel With Life
The evening air laps thick aboutThe stagnant moat that Tiffuages claimsAs dusk now slips awayWhere taught to run, the rotten tongueOf a hotter gotterdamerungHas started licking like a flameWhispers in the dismal...
- Honey And Sulphur
PraeclarumCustodemOviumLupumAll Saints Day, the taint of rainBlood and mud and thunder all the sameTo those who close their ranks to Gille's menBricqueville, Prelati and De SilleCreatures of the dark creeping up and...
- Tragic Kingdom
Here sat BabylonFattened by the purses of the worst and wrongWhere the decadent tastes of Hell grew strongLike a curse uponThis tragic kingdomDusk descended like a final curtainOn this stage only death was...
- Ten Leagues Beneath Contempt
Awaking in a sweatForsaking pleasure for regretAnother night of blight had slowly passedThe morning skies once fresh and brightDarkened down no near twilightOnce could smell the end of days were coming fastGilles...
- Godspeed On The Devil's Thunder
Burning like derision on the prism of nightStill squirming from the sermon, those determined parasitesMeant to overpower and bedizen his lightHe paced his tower prison with a dissonant appetiteThe moon was blackDevil...
- Her Ghost In The Fog
"The Moon, she hangs like a cruel portraitsoft winds whisper the bidding of treesas this tragedy starts with a shattered glass heartand the Midnightmare trampling of dreamsBut on, no tears pleaseFear and pain may...
- Lord Abortion
I was born with a birthmark of cindersDebris cast from the stars and MotherA ring of bright slaughter, I spat in the watersOf life that ran slick from the stabwounds in HerDub Me Lord Abortion, the living deadThe...
- Tortured Soul Asylum
"Oh, sweet MidianI burn for thee at heartDon't despair meCome bare me on wings of graveyard robbed leatherTo where pleasure rings deep secretsIn spurts after dark..." *Under full moons waxing lyricallyDeath's poetry...
- Saffron's Curse
Through arcades where shimmering snowfallLay in state with the sad and damnedA rent lament barely flung above a whisperDrew Me like a ghost to the haunts of ManI Found Her tempting fate between Her wrist and razorA...
- Santanic Mantra
"Archangel, Dark AngelLend me thy lightThrough Death's veil'Til we have Heaven in sight!"
- At The Gates Of Midian
[Instrumental]
- Tearing The Veil From Grace
Biblical choirs soar beyond veiled lightA swansong for ravens trapped flapping in nightA tragic yet magickal fall from graceToo awful to taste for the led and the chasteThose whose long fetters are addressed to all...
- Creatures That Kissed In Cold Mirrors
[Instrumental]
- Once Upon Atrocity
[INSTRUMENTAL]
- Cruelty Brought Thee Orchids
Hear Me now! Oh crime she be treasure revail will be pleasure somehow... Maleficent in dusky rose Gathered satin lapped Her breasts Like blood upon the snow A tourniquet of Topaz Glistened at Her throat Awakening,...
- Cruelty Brought Three Orchids
Hear Me now! Oh crime she be treasure revail will be pleasure somehow... Maleficent in dusky rose Gathered satin lapped Her breasts Like blood upon the snow A tourniquet of Topaz Glistened at Her throat...
- Desire In Violent Overture
Nights came tralling ghost concertosHeartstrings a score of skeletal reaper bowsPlaying torture chamber music allegrettoConducting over throes trashed to crescendoSkinless the dark shall screamHoarse Her...
- Venus In Fear
[INSTRUMENTAL]
- Portrait Of The Dead Countess
[INSTRUMENTAL]
- Twisted Nails Of Faith
"Mirror, mirror on the wallShouldst not grave pleasures be my all?For if I shall see thy Will be doneGrant Me the Witchcraft of thy tongue"Three moondials froze in the shadow of sixAs another soul passed to the...
- Beneath The Howling Stars
Midwinter wrongs the rites of SpringHer spinal chill rakes the earthWhilst pensive souls at zero singWoebetidings of rebirthUnder cold stares of Mars malignedNear-suicides cross their heartsAnd unborns writhe in tepid...
- Thirteen Autumns And A Widow
Spawned wanton like blight on an auspicious nightHer eyes betrayed spells of the moon's eerie lightA disquieting gaze forever ghosting far seasBled white and dead, Her true mother was fedTo the ravenous wolves that...
- Lustmord & Wargasm (The Lick Of Carnivorous Winds)
An Archangel in bondage,Bediademed, soldWith a murder of ravens,But no less Astarte to behold.Abandoned by heaven to the dead, dark & past,Cast her dispersions on life's brittle glass.And though her eyes still held...
- A Crescendo Of Passion Bleeding
Spells lay daggers before mepassion speaks in grue vehement stabsTrance my eyes, fix my focus to painthe tumour grows until the enemy is slain(Gut The Church)Slightless stormknee-deep in hate I seethmy purpose here...
- Iscariot
[INSTRUMENTAL]
- Darkness Our Bride (Jugular Wedding)
[INSTRUMENTAL]
- To Eve The Art Of Witchcraft
Crawl in awful stealth to meForever a voyeur I've beenNocturnal Goddess of the MoonSo she comes, unseenThus (Uzza and Azel) speakThe burning seed, is thrust in Eveand yearning keeps me, captive of desireMake me as a...
- Imperium Tenebrarum
Swords in hand at the bloody fields of historyWe rend our blades through dogma and humilityCarve the future according to our willSet worlds ablaze with our seething fireLet you all acknowledge that we are hereAs...
- Summer Dying Fast
Through acrid clouds of summer fliesthe garden swells with a thousand more wiseForever flung to celestial dreamsclawing at the grave of the dead nazareneI watch the storm approachingthe darkness calls my namethe trees...
- The Principle Of Evil Made Flesh
From the primeval masslet precious chaos ventSacred flesh drenched in fornicationbeloved by Setmay the winds gather her togetherfrom the secrets of menafter thousands of years of terrifying silenceshe comes again(All...
- The Forest Whispers My Name
Black candles dance to an overturebut I am drawn past their flickering lureto the breathing forest that surrounds the roomwhere the vigilant trees push out of the wombI sip the blood-red winemy thoughts weigh heavy...
- A Dream Of Wolves In The Snow
Oh, listen to themThe children of the nightWhat sweet music they makeMay dreams be brought that I might reach...the gentle strains of midnight speechand frozen stars that gild the forest floorThrough the swirling...
- In Secret Love We Drown
[INSTRUMENTAL]
- One Final Graven Kiss
[INSTRUMENTAL]
- Of Mist And Midnight Skies
We, the nocturnal fewbound by other lawsto the service of the enemies of godare silent and hiddenyet our exquisite fire burns onpoised to engulf...Tie a man to his godhe may not walk for fearof falling foul to...
- Fraternally Yours, 666
Pour submission into meNo church shall bar our pathsSeductive evil drink...your fill of the bleeding christ in your armsWhere scorn is fed in the blackest *** soul!
- As Deep As Any Burial
Thrill, kill the black cultWalk among the weak by nightAffliction...Deep as any burialTake their worthless lives...
- Unbridled At Dusk
A celebration of the damnedThe unfettered few who choose to roamSharing more than ***ual excessSowing more than vexing stonesFavourite haunts of depravationWhere the morning fears to treadCovenant revere the sullen...
- The Black Goddess Rises
Thee I Invoke, bornless oneAll woman, pure predatorWherein conspiracy and impulse dwellLike a seething fall from graceThou art pale hecateRising from thessalyYou're in my dreamsThe Darkness in my heartThe rapture in...
- The Raping Of Faith
Flowers lift your precious head to meI have come to her warm embraceThe gentle touch of surrealityA sweet kiss from beloved faithThe gardens swim with fervent life tonightI sense the beauty that waits for me...
- Nocturnal Supremacy
Weak midnight promises of loveWere wept upon Her graveAnd shunned by stars aboveIn mortal life lurks my dismayAn Angel stole my heartand Death took Her awayShe sleeps beyond the grace of godA dreaming beautyIf wishes...
- She Mourns A Lengthening Shadow
Hasten to the bridal bed -Underneath the grave 'tis spread:In darkness may our love be hid,Oblivion be our coverlid -We may rest, and nione forbid.Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Queen Of Winter, Throned
Even a man who is pure in the heartAnd speaks in prayer by nightMay become a wolf when the wolf's bane bloomsAnd the winter moon is bright"Listen to themThe children of the nightWhat sweet music they makeIniquitousI...
- The ***And Ruin Of Angels (Hosannas In Extremis)
Hosannas in ExtremisInvading tempestuos skiesWhen Inanna rose, bringing angels reposeAnd Narcissus' date as their prizeBlinded by Diana's mirrorWherein coffined truth struggles, forlornAnd covetous stars out their...
- Ebony Dressed For Sunset
"The Life of all Flesh Is The Blood" - Leviticus 17:14"Those who Trespass against us, Beware the Shadows of Dusk"Unshadow thyselves childrenThe reign in flesh begins again... V empireFunereal majesty awake Cneajna...
- The Black Goddess Rise
Thee I invoke, bornless oneall woman, pure predatorwherein conspiracy and impulse dwelllike a seething fall from graceThee I worship...Thou art darkest Gabrielleno church shall bar our pathseductive Evil drink your...
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