absinthe with faust
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As promised the second COF post today. I love this song it's nice and complex with out being unlistenable. catchy riffs and the unearthly screams of dani filth. A wonderfully theatrical from the gods of english goth metal.
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I like to say that I'll listen to anything once...but you almost scared me away with that.......
"A wonderfully theatrical from the gods of english goth metal."
...........remark.
Having listened I can honestly say I shouldda followed my first instinct.
that shoulda been a wonderfully theatrical tune somtimes my fingers skip words my mind thought. But as with many things COF is not for everyone it's mostly for those who are sufficently jaded and already dark minded. But don't worry I'll post somthing else later I do try to advertize the genral truth expecially about genre so if you see goth metal you can be pretty sure it's gonna be cold dark and unintelligable.
Yeah, well that's what I thought...In actuality I liked everything but the "singing" (needless to say, I use the term very loosely)
I did have a bit of a chuckle about the advertizeing of this song. first the title is mysterious and literary includeing both that mystical substance absinthe and the forbodeing name faust. so that in it's self reaches out and grabs the armchair intellectual and makes him curious. then the pretty intro panio peice lulls the listener into a false sense of security just before all hell breaks loose. And the demonic scream of dani filth rapes your ears. that in it's self is brilliant. I will admit that my first exposure to cradle of filth prompted pretty much the same reaction as yours. But with repeated listening I actually developed a taste for it. of course the pressure of a good friend of mine had everything to do with that. still without him i'd still be rocking out to a very narrow spectrum of punk rock and grunge which is all well and good but is hardly mature and suitable to a mogger. So I guess it's all a matter of taste. Everyone is diffrent and thats what makes music great it dosn't have to have global appeal it dosn't need to be mass marketed it can just be a small fraternity of weirdo's and freaks brought together by a shared love of the same musical feel.
'Absinthe with Faust' is a intriguing title to be sure. I've heard some Cradle of Filth before so when I heard the intro I was thinking "Hmmmm... that's unexpected" then it went full tilt.
Have you heard / do you like H.I.M.?
Ive listened to a little H.I.M. and while I want to like them I just don't get anything inspireing from them I like the dying in her arms song but after that they just don't move me.
I was big into H.I.M. a while back (especially their cover tunes) but now I have to be in the mood. Just the description 'goth metal' made me think of them, though I think it would be a stretch to call them 'metal'.
yeah I don't see them as a metal group either just a dark rock group thats big with chicks. I'd probably like them a little more if I was going out with some hot emo chick who loved them. speaking of covers have you seen children of bodom's cover of oops I did it again? priceless!!
Json -> I once downed 2 bottles of the black licorice flavored Absinthe after melting sugar cubes into them...I can't say we got drunk, but we surely got stoned -> Cradle of filth...very nice by the way ->
I used to make absinthe out of wormwood and 105 proof vodka. what you do is get fresh wormwood sprigs and soak them for two weeks in 105 proof vodka. the alcahol leeches the chemicals out of the wormwood and you have a wormwood infused vodka that gets you both drunk and stoned. In fact that was the one time I got so fucked up I almost choked to death on my own vomit. my buddies left me there to sleep it off and my wife was gone to her sisters and when she came home I was laying face up halfway between the bedroom and the dining room chokeing on my puke. talk about a rockstar way to go man. but she saved my life and divorced me 3 years later. I guess I can't really blame her. guess now I better drink in moderation cause there's no one to save me from myself.
Ah, that's sick and disgusting -> I saved this "friend" years ago when we first started drinking...I was 12, he was 13, we were taking shots of some goofy coffee bean liquor, but he was drinking a whole bottle of wine, he was a rich kid and got it from his parents wine cellar, I mean $700 a bottle type stuff...well we didn't know he had it, he kept sneaking off and drinking it, guess he didn't know how strong it was, he passed out, and when we all went to sleep, I heard a tiny noise -> and yup, you guessed it, he was dying in his blackout -> I got up and turned on the lights, flipped him over, then I had to stay up all night because we couldn't get him awake, he kept puking this thick yellow goo up that made him choke all that much more (after expelling all the liquid that is) ->
so yeah, take her easy on the bottle, that's the last thing I need, I'll just think you're pissed at me and don't want to talk anymore when really you got toasted and wandered off into the 4ft snow at 3am and died, and I'll never know ->
yep I also need to stop getting hammerd and posting on mog. it's embarresing when I sober up.