Cradle Of Filth seeks to extend its streak of awesome albums on September 22 with Cryptoriana – The Seductiveness of Decay, and the new single "Achingly Beautiful" sure makes it seem like that'll happen. The single is like the others in the aspect that it's a little lengthy, though it's well-written enough to where you won't even notice that seven minutes have gone by.
Here's what vocalist Dani Filth has to say about the song!
"Influenced by the stories of E.F. Benson, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, H. Rider Haggard, Oscar Wilde, Arthur Machen and Algernon Blackwood, to shame but a few, this song concerns itself with a spectral guest at a great masked ball who, deeply embedded in his cruel libertine nature, attends merely for merciless, seductive sport, but instead discovers the woman of his dreams and both bewitching the other, finds in her his dark, immortal equal.
"I love this song as it has a very old-school Cradle vibe for me, both lyrically and musically, and reeking hideously of the Vampiric, the dropdown section in the middle is pure 'A Gothic Romance'."
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