Thornography
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| Studio album by Cradle of Filth | ||||
| Released | 17 October 2006 | |||
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| Genre | Extreme metal | |||
| Length | 64:44 | |||
| Label | Roadrunner | |||
| Producer | Rob Caggiano | |||
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| Alternate cover | ||||
Limited edition "First Day" cover
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| Harder, Darker, Faster: Thornography Deluxe cover | ||||
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| Source | Rating |
| About.com |    |
| AllMusic | |
| Exclaim! | favourable |
| Kerrang! | unfavourable |
| Metal Hammer | favourable |
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| Terrorizer | favourable |
Thornography is the seventh studio album by English extreme metal band Cradle of Filth. It was released on 17 October 2006, by record label Roadrunner. It was produced by former Anthrax guitarist Rob Caggiano, engineered by Dan Turner and mixed by Andy Sneap, and once again features narration by Doug Bradley (as with Midian and Nymphetamine). It is Cradle of Filth's second album as a five-piece, as keyboardist Martin Powell left the band in 2005. This would also be the band's final album to feature drummer Adrian Erlandsson, and the only full-length to feature guitarist Charles Hedger.
Dani Filth explained the album's title in 2006:
This title represents mankind's obsession with sin and self. The thorn combines images of that which troubled Christ, the Crown of Thorns, thus intimating man's seeming desire to hurt God and also of the protecting thorn and the need to enclose a secret place or the soul from attack. An addiction to self-punishment or something equally poisonous. A mania. Twisted desires. Barbed dreams. A fetish. An obsession with cruelty. Savage nature. Paganism over Christianity. The title can also represent a sexual attraction to religious iconography as in the case of the "possessed" Loudun nuns. I like the title because to me it invokes images of a darker, sexier pre-Raphaelite scene wherein Sleeping Beauty's castle is won and she is awoken by a poisonous kiss. A darker, more adult fairytale.
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