Which Album That Makes Cradle Of Filth Popular!!!!
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Permalink Reply by ADreamOfWolves on -
dusk and her embrace...
it was easily their best album
and sold over 500,000 copies
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Permalink Reply by Leah on -
I'm not sure if it was Nymphetemine or Thornography that was the most popular with people. But most of the people that like those albums is because of the singles off of them. Just my opinion though. I think the most popular among fans is either Dusk or Principle, Cruelty is up there too
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Permalink Reply by dreal on -
midian i think........ here in our country, u can,t buy original albums of cradle. were just finding tracks from the internet. poor.............
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Permalink Reply by Frank on -
The first breakthrough for CoF was The Principle of Evil made Flesh. It had a profound impact on the underground (black) metal scene. After that Dusk was a new culture shock and hailed as THE black metal album of the year 1996. With Cruelty and the Beast the band firmly established them in the metal scene. The MTV-airtime for the From the Cradle to Enslave was said to be the first sign of 'commercial downfall' by the band. When Midian came out they got the 'sell-out' label here in Europe. Then came Sony, which was supposed to be their complete poppy turn-over, but it turned out it wasn't. Yet steadily their name grew towards the mainstream, especially due to the airtime their video's got. With the release of Nymphetamine CoF had their huge worldwide mainstream breakthrough and loads of tv airtime with the Nymphetamine videoclip. The impact of Thornography was a little bit smaller, because it wasn't well received, yet it got them in the USA Billboard charts. Godspeed on the Devil's Thunder ranked even higher than Thornography in the USA, but the album is more brutal and less popular with the more mainstream people.
This is how I experienced CoF's rise to popularity during my nearly 11 year of fandom! :)
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Permalink Reply by Caliban Darklock on -
I'd say it was Thornography which made them accessible to the largest fanbase ever: mainstream metal fans. Nymphetamine edged into that arena, but it was Thornography that really "broke" CoF in the mainstream market with their video for "Foetus of a New Day Kicking"... which manages to cross firmly into traditional metal with its arrangement, but maintain the aggression and attitude that the CoF fanbase expected.
Many of them still complained (and continue complaining!), but it's along the same lines as Marilyn Manson's gothed-out covers of popular 1980s songs like "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" and "Tainted Love" - it's not an alteration of the band, so much as opening a pipeline into a new fanbase that has... well... money. It is monumentally expensive to do a tour on the scale CoF do, and like it or not, there's a point where you can't produce the high volume of quality material necessary to earn that money from a small fanbase. You need a bigger one, so you can maintain your level of quality AND put on a decent tour often enough to keep the "true" fans happy.
Every band has three audiences: the people who listen, the people who buy music, and the people who buy tickets. Singles are created for the first group, CDs for the seconds, and tours for the third. They're very different groups, so those of us in the last group probably don't need to worry that the tours are going to be retooled for the other two.
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Permalink Reply by Leah on
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The way Cradle is now, not 98% of the people on the Ozzfest forums despise them and don't want them to do Ozzfest at all. They say that they are too much of a mainstream band like Slipknot, Manson, and Disturbed and no one wants to hear it. Not only that they say that they ruined black metal along with the underground scene. And they feel the same with Dimmu Borgir. They are one of the most brootal group of metal fans you can find, but I also see what they mean. It's all matter of opinion and I always look at it both ways. It's really all about the money and that's the root of all evil lol
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Permalink Reply by veritas on -
When you say popular i think mainstream.
I say it started with not the Nymphetamine album but the song.
The album that did it (just so happens to be the worst of cradle) is THORNOGRAPHY.
As mainstream as that album did i will never compare the band to Slipknot or manson.
Hopefully the new album will not attract so much not unwanted attention. As i can see from the new album they are looking a bit more familiar.
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Permalink Reply by KarenS on -
I would say that it was when they released "Her ghost in the fog" of the Midian album that they were really made accesible to the mainstream rock/metal audience.
But I wouldn't say that Cradle were popular anyway, they are mostly too extreme for the mainstream and too commercial for the underground. There are a lot of people who just like the gothic ballads and hate the heavier stuff and then there's all those black metal purists whineing about COF not being black metal, being naff and selling out.
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