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CROWN OF THORNS

Posted on February 12, 2008

Singer Dani Filth explains the meaning behind the band’s 7th album title ‘Thornography’. Commented frontman Dani Filth: “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’ Lourdon 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 adult faerytale.” As previously reported, “Thornography” is scheduled for release on September 19 via Roadrunner Records. Songtitles set to appear on the CD include “Libertina Grim”, “Tonight in Flames”, “Cemetery and Sundown”, “I Am the Thorn”, “The Byronic Man” (featuring guest vocals from H.I.M.’s Ville Valo) and “Temptation”. The follow-up to 2004’s “Nymphetamine”, “Thornography” was recorded at Lincolnshire, England’s Chapel studios with producer Rob Caggiano (BLEEDING THROUGH, ANTHRAX). “I’m not saying it’s ‘experimental,’ but we’re definitely testing the limits of what we can do,” CRADLE frontman Dani Filth recently told Revolver magazine about the new CD. “This is our sixth or seventh record, so we’re trying to spice things up to keep the marriage going!” To the Official COF site

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