I started to listen to Cradle of Filth when I was 15. That was also the period when I began to be keen on metal. I was at the high-school and from the very first time I was amazed by the astonishing music and haunted by the Dark Romantics lyrics.
Now, 7 years later, I'm still a great fan of this awesome band. I'm finishing my degree in English literature and I think that the work of Dani Filth should be recognized in an academic level, for he is an amazing writer, besides from an excellent musician.

One of my favourites stanzas:

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 enwreathed in mist
Creeping like violations from the shadows
To kill