Cradle of Filth - Lilith Immaculate

When my favourite death metal band decide to release a new album they really don't fuck about. Darkly, Darkly, Venus Aversa by Cradle of Filth was released last year on Halloween and followed up where their previous release, Godspeed on the Devil's Thunder, had left off. Darkly is a concept album that tells the tale of the demon Lilith, but instead of focusing on the legends around her it tells a modern-ish story of her rebirth in the world and all the delicious naughtyness she gets up to.

I've thought for a long time that extreme metal music is the way it is in order to force listeners to read the liner notes that came with the CD so that they'd get a better understanding of a story that the band really wanted to tell you. Cradle of Filth specialise in great stories, imaginative historical re-workings, and savage music. Featuring some decidedly adult content, here's the final video in the Year 4 warm-up, Lilith Immaculate by Cradle of Filth.

Lilith Immaculate Lyrics:

Church bells resounded like judgement day
As they were making love
In the rainswept graveyard
She fucked him hard, silhouetted by flame
A monsoon Tigress set upon prey

Fall for the love of me
Crawl for the love of me
Drool for the love of my virulent sway
I grow more master the faster the days

Lilith Immaculate

This delectable reaper
Her eyes were profound
Drawing him in deeper
Until he was drowned
Hurled on the shore
Of the world underground...

Lilith Immaculate

Mortal kind, a morbid wine
For this dark moon goddess
And freed to stretch her claws
This beautiful whore
Would be brutally honest

Tortuous one, taboos undone
A glittering star on a sea of myriad waves
And a thickening mist, a seductress
Leading lovesick hearts astray

Lilith

In the throes of orgasm, she bucked and he broke
At the height of the storm, the chaos they'd smote
Burning behind her in arabesque smoke
Framed a vision transformed as she sucked from his throat

Victoria smiled, her now golden eyes
Possessed a regal bearing
Of omnipotent power
From wet lips to her smouldering thighs
Her beauty perfected and her will agonised

Fall for the love of me
Crawl for the love of me
Drool for the love of my virulent sway
I grow more the master the faster the days

Lilith Immaculate

With dread single purpose
Her mind told him stay
She strode through the fire
Desire aflame
She murdered the nuns
In such horrible ways...

Lilith Immaculate

"That night we lay entwined on hay
Inside a soldier's barn
Her panting breath an opiate
As in her bolder grasp
I caught the scent of desert sands
The Holy lands, the fall of reason
But only when I smelt the blood
Did I fear her colder hand"

"I am darkness, I am sin
The Queen of lust invited in
Reborn at last to cast my
Fecund shadow on this world,
You shall worship me, enslaved
For many lovers shall I crave
And in return, I'll gladly pave
Your psycho path with pearls

For I have been grating
And waiting so long to find
The most perfect hostess close to me
Whose thin-ice troubled mind
Was like a cracked, black ornate mirror
To slip right through in time
When at last I wore Harmonia's necklace
The cursed twin serpents mine"

Tortuous one, debauchery won
The attention of Emperors, Princes and Tsars
For the toll of her kiss, no soul could dismiss
The advance of her throne from afar

This English rose with traits of those
Who graced the harems of the East
Adorned with thorns, she raised the horns
And scarlet hems to wasted priests

Fall for the love of me
Crawl for the love of me
Drool for the love of my virulent sway
I grow more master the faster the days

Lilith Immaculate

This delectable reaper
Her eyes were profound
They drew him in deeper
Until he was drowned
Hurled on the shore
Of the world underground...

Lilith Immaculate

Fall for the love of me
Crawl for the love of me
Drool for the love of my virulent sway
I grow more master the faster the days

Lilith Immaculate

The flutes and sweet wine
Of her voice anodyne
Her power was growing
Every hour malign
The truth, Lilith's kingdom
Drew closer with time

Bring Me The Horizon - It Never Ends

The different types of film genres, horror, thriller, sci-fi, romance, and so on, often appear as music videos. Some of these themed videos are better than others while some are just plain rubbish, but any video that looks to movies for inspiration has to be better than the usual crap that gets made with gobshites with poor taste in clothes pretending to drive Lamborghini's while draped in fake gold jewellery and waving their arms about (like the latest offering from Limp Bizkit*).

This next video, as they say on TV, is obviously heavily inspired by the whole British horror scene and features the right mix of trippy visuals, a decent tune, and blood-curdling terror; here's Bring Me The Horizon with It Never Ends.

It Never Ends Lyrics:

Started off as a one night stand. Lingered to a fling.
The sirens and the surgeons didn't seem to mean a thing.
Hide your fangs all you want, you still need the blood.
Tell us that it's different now, you're up to no good.

Take my hand, show me the way,
we are the children that fell from grace.
Take my hand, show me the way,
we are the children who can't be saved.

One more nail in the coffin.
One more foot in the grave.
One more time I'm on my knees, as I try to walk away.
How has it come to this?

I've said it once. I've said it twice.
I've said it a thousand fucking times.
That I'm okay, that I'm fine.
That it's all just in my mind.
But this has got the best of me.
And I can't seem to sleep.
It's not because you're not with me. It's because you never leave.

You say this is suicide?
I say this is a war.
And I'm losing the battle.
Man down.

Oh!
Is this what you call love?
(This is a war I can't win).

One more nail in the coffin.
One more foot in the grave.
One more time I'm on my knees, as I try to walk away.
Everything I loved, became everything I lost.

I've said it once. I've said it twice.
I've said it a thousand fucking times.
That I'm okay, that I'm fine.
That it's all just in my mind.
But this has got the best of me.
And I can't seem to sleep.
It's not because you're not with me. It's because you never leave.

(Whispered - Every second. Every minute. Every hour. Every day)

Every second. Every minute. Every hour. Every day.
It never ends. It never ends.
Every second. Every minute. Every hour. Every day.
It never ends. It never ends.
Every second. Every minute. Every hour. Every day.
It never ends. It never ends.
Every second. Every minute. Every hour. Every day.
It never ends. It never ends.



*I actually quite like that Limp Bizkit tune...

Marilyn Manson - Heart Shaped Glasses

The run-up to the time before Halloween just wouldn't be the same without a tune from our favorite dark shock rocker Marilyn Manson. Here's Heart Shaped Glasses starring Manson's on again/off again swinging-both-ways girlfriend Evan Rachel Wood in the controversial video that made many people wonder if what was happening on screen was ACTUALLY happening on screen, that is were they REALLY making the beast with two backs...

Heart Shaped Glasses (When the Heart Guides the Hand) Lyrics:

She reminds me of the one in school,
when I was cuttin'
she was dressed in white.
And I couldn't take my eyes off her,
but that's not what I took off that night,.
She'll never cover up what we did with her dress.
No.
She said "kiss me it'll heal,
but it won't forget".
"Kiss me it'll heal,
but it won't forget".

I don't mind you keeping me on pins and needles.
If I could stick to you,
and you stick me too.

Don't break,
Don't break my heart,
and I won't break your heart shaped glasses.
Little girl,
little girl you should close your eyes,
that blue is getting me high.
Don't break,
Don't break my heart,
and I won't break your heart shaped glasses.
Little girl,
little girl you should close your eyes,
that blue is getting me high.
Making me low.
That blue is getting me high.
Making me low.

She reminds me of the one I knew that cut up the negatives of my life.
I couldn't take my hands off her,
she wouldn't let me be anywhere but inside.

I don't mind you keeping me on pins and needles.
If I could stick to you,
and you stick me too.

Just,
Don't break,
Don't break my heart,
and I won't break your heart shaped glasses.
Little girl,
little girl you should close your eyes,
that blue is getting me high.
Don't break,
Don't break my heart,
and I won't break your heart shaped glasses.
Little girl,
little girl you should close your eyes,
that blue is getting me high.
Making me low.

She'll never cover up what we do with the dress.
No.
She said "kiss me it'll heal,
but it won't forget".
"Kiss me it'll heal,
but it won't forget".

I don't mind you keeping me on pins and needles.
If I could stick to you,
you could stick me too.

Don't break,
Don't break my heart,
and I won't break your heart shaped glasses.
Little girl,
little girl you should close your eyes,
that blue is getting me high.
Don't break,
Don't break my heart,
and I won't break your heart shaped glasses.
Little girl,
little girl you should close your eyes,
that blue is getting me high.
Making me low.

Papa Roach - Hollywood Whore

At first, todays choice of music video, Hollywood Whore by Papa Roach, might seem an unusual one to help get into the mood for all the horror that's to come; but it's a fun little tune and if you stick with the video until the end you'll see why it got included. It might also remind you of a review from way back in Year 2. Be warned though, like the 30 Days of Fright itself, this mood-setter is not for the kids (though I suppose the presence of the word "Whore" in the title should really have given that away already).

Hollywood Whore Lyrics:

Hollywood whore
Passed out on the floor
I'm sorry but the party's over

Cocaine nose and trendy clothes
Gotta send her to rehab
She found out she's got no soul
But it really doesn't bother her

White trash queen, American dream
Oh what a role model
Throwing a fit, making a scene
Like no tomorrow

Hollywood whore
Passed out on the floor
Can't take it no more
I'm sorry but the party's over

The talk of the town
And she's going down
I'm sorry but the party's over
No-o-ow

Awake by noon, drunk by four
Sucked up in the showbiz
You're so lame, your such a bore
I wanna kick your teeth in

Plastic smile to match your style
We can tell you got a face lift
You're so vain, you're so vile
You're a number one hit

Hollywood whore
Passed out on the floor
Can't take it no more
I'm sorry but the party's over

The talk of the town,
And she's going down
I'm sorry but the party's over

The cameras are gone
And nobody screams
She couldn't survive her fifteen minutes of fame

Her friends are all gone,
She's going insane
She'll never survive without the money and fame

It's all going down the drain

Hollywood whore
Passed out on the floor
I'm sorry but the party's over

The talk of the town,
And she's going down
I'm sorry but the party's over

Hollywood whore
Passed out on the floor
I'm sorry but the party's over

The talk of the town,
And she's going down
I'm sorry but the party's over

Wake up, the party's over
Wake up, the party's over
Wake up, the party's over
Wake up, the party's over
No-o-ow

Ha-ha-ha
Don't let the door hit ya where the good Lord split ya, honey!
Ha-ha-ha

Dimmu Borgir - Gateways

Like a top athlete before a big important competition I need to warm-up before getting down to the serious business of the Greatest Annual Horror Movie Review Series in the World - Ever! (simply known as The Hacker's Coven 30 Days of Fright to those with a less inflated sense of ego than mine).

Warming up the creative juices needed to write my little movie reviews is done in much the same way as you'd prepare for a big night out on the town - you drink too much cheap booze and play some music so loud that the neighbours are glad when you finally bugger off for the night. So, some music (and hard liquor at a reasonable price) is needed, and to begin with I present the Norwegian black metal masters Dimmu Borgir (it means "Dark Fortresses") with their recent hit which has been stuck in my head for ages, Gateways.

Gateways Lyrics:

The core principle of freedom
Is the only notion to obey
The formulae of evolution and sin
Leading the way

The rebirth is near completion
As we slowly awaken from slumber

The malpractice of the spirit ends
Gateways!
When the gift is once again attained
Gateways!
No rules or restraints are longer valid
Gateways!
When the ancient future is reclaimed
Gateways!

No rules or restraints are longer valid
Gateways
When the ancient future is reclaimed
Gateways

It's all there for the eyes that can see
The blind ones will always suffer in secrecy
For it is the omen of what lies submerged - Breeding
Untouched within us - Bleeding

The core principle of freedom
Is the only notion to obey
The formulae of evolution and sin
Leading the way
The rebirth is the year of completion
As we slowly awaken from slumber
To receive the light that shines in darkness
The light that shines forevermore (forevermore)

Be the broken or the breaker
Be the giver or the undertaker
Unlock and open the door
Be the healer or the faker
The keys are in your hands
Realize you are your own sole creator
Of your own master plan
Be the broken or the breaker
Be the giver or the undertaker
Unlock and open the door
Be the healer or the faker
The keys are in your hands
Realize you are your own sole creator
Of your own master plan