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Title: I'm Usually Not A Black Metal Fan
Review: Emperor, Opeth, Katatonia...none of these bands do anything for me. I am an avid listener of all types of darker music...but for some reason black metal always seemed like machine-gun snares, jackhammer riffs, and screechy vocals. Not the case with Cradle of Filth. Their album's darkly erotic melodies make it (to use a cliche) "good to be bad." The soundscapes presented can best be seen on Malice Through The Looking Glass, Dusk + Her Embrace, and Funeral In Carpathia. Hands down the highlight of the album is the opening riff in Malice Through... Though Emperor's screechy vocals have always rubbed me wrong, they're much cleaner sounding with CoF, and go along perfectly with the music.
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