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Limited 2012 re-press double album on yellow green splatter vinyl with printed innersleeve What if a black metal band with a penchant for performance art and symphony-sized stage shows got a major label to back up and fund its perverted vision of apocalypse? The result would be something like Damnation and a Day, a metal album that features a 40-piece orchestra and 32-piece choir, but is still definitely extreme-sounding and can in no way be viewed as a sellout. Cradle of Filth was called a sellout long before they hooked up with Sony. Hardcore black metalers thought their stage show was too cartoony and Alice Cooper-like. That's true in a way, the band's delivery of dark music comes filtered through a show that's more Cirque du Soleil than satanic. If any black metal band was ever going to be in league with the Beelzebub-owned music industry, it was Cradle of Filth. Track listing: 1. A Bruise Upon The Silent Moon 2. The Promise Of Fever 3. Hurt And Virtue 4. An Enemy Led The Tempest 5. Damned In Any Language (A Plague On Words) 6. Better To Reign In Hell 7. Serpent Tongue 8. Carrion 9. The Mordant Liquor Of Tears 10. Presents From The Poison-Hearted 11. Doberman Pharaoh 12. Babalon A.D. (So Glad For The Madness) 13. A Scarlet Witch Lit The Season 14. Mannequin 15. Thank God For The Suffering 16. The Smoke Of Her Burning 17. End Of Daze