Taking the most requested tracks from the first four official releases, CRADLE OF FILTH have fulfilled audience desire by creating an album based on their most popular older tracks, but one that is delivered orchestrally to create a rich, haunting sonic landscape in the vein of soundtrack composers such as Jerry Goldsmith, Danny Elfman and Hans Zimmer. "Midnight In The Labyrinth" is the latest, inspired work, from British extreme metallers CRADLE OF FILTH, traversing an ethereal cinematic landscape of classical and symphonic darkness a style the band has always woven seamlessly into their compositions.
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Due on Record Store Day (April 21) in participating countries and as a strictly limited-edition two-disc set of delectable magic in the rest of the world, the effort will contain narrated nightmares courtesy of CRADLE OF FILTH frontman Dani "Filth" Davey, plus additional vocals from Sarah Jezebel Deva, on disc 1, while disc 2 will include purely orchestral and symphonic recordings.
The cover artwork for "Midnight In The Labyrinth", an orchestral album which reinvents tracks from CRADLE OF FILTH's first four albums and includes choirs, strings and some narration, can be seen below. "The distorted idea of music coming out from this, it is melted with the continuous conflict between man and machine in which it is difficult to say who is the winner."
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The song "Organic Program Failure" can be streamed in the YouTube clip below.įormed in 2007, IGNITION CODE combines the bandmembers' "deep-rooted passion for complex tempo with sudden and apparently uncontrolled outburst, without setting aside their melodic and sometimes intimist side, all this under the direction of some influences such as MNEMIC, TEXTURE and IN FLAMES," according to the band's official bio. The CD was recorded at UnderRoom Studios and was mastered at Cutting Room (MESHUGGAH, TEXTURES) in Stockholm, Sweden. Italian "melodic/math/death" metallers IGNITION CODE, who feature in their ranks members of SAWTHIS and THE JULIET MASSACRE, will release their debut album, "NewTek Lie", on March 17 through To React Records. Once hailed as the next METALLICA, MORTAL SIN have become legends in their home country Australia, having been inducted into the Kerrang! Heavy Metal Hall of Fame in 2005 and being the only Australian band to have played with the big five of thrash - METALLICA, SLAYER, ANTHRAX, MEGADETH and TESTAMENT - on tours in Australia and overseas. The follow-up to 2007's "An Absence of Faith" was mixed with producer/engineer Darren "jENK" Jenkins and marks the recording debut of guitarist Ryan Huthnance, who replaced Mick Sultana. The effort includes the group's classic debut LP, "Mayhemic Destruction", as a bonus disc in the limited digipak version. MORTAL SIN's latest album, "Psychology Of Death", was released in Europe on Novemvia NoiseArt Records. Vocalist Mat Maurer quit MORTAL SIN last month "for personal reasons and irreconcilable differences." He added, "Last year was an incredibly difficult year for me personally and I have decided to put my family first." Our first show with Dave will be this Saturday at Venom in Sydney, more shows to follow in the next few weeks."Ī photo of the new MORTAL SIN lineup can be seen below.įor a sample of Tinelt's vocal work, check out video for NEKROFEIST's "Kills Everything" below. The group states, "Dave comes to us from another great Aussie band, NEKROFEIST, we are very excited for him to join the family. Australian thrash metal veterans MORTAL SIN have recruited Dave Tinelt as their new vocalist.