It's great to see people finally warming up to this album. I rarely say "masterpiece" but it's definitely the case with Damnation and a day. I've never understood why it got so much hate. I figure quite a bit of it was due to the fact that it was released on a major label. You always have them, especially when a cult band signs with one. Anyone who thought that they did it in hopes of getting it on the radio is an idiot. College radio, maybe. An all instrumental ukulele quartet should have stood a better chance on mainstream radio. It was the most lush and complex album they'd done at the time, but it's still a Filth album in every sense. The people who knock bands for trying to expand their sound are usually the same idiots who gripe about a band that never does. I really think that it just became one of those albums that are popular to hate on. Midian had been their most and only high profile album. That was when I remember seeing other people wearing the shirts. It may have been the first of their albums to be sold at Hot Topic. Even if that's where you came in, Damnation was basically a more dense sounding album with slightly better production than Midian. Cradle of Filth weren't trying to be Mayhem or Burzum. They had found their own path and sound. Dusk and Her embrace was where it became clear that the Filth were chasing an altogether different beast than their black metal peers. Cruelty and the Beast was kind of the watershed for most of the remaing black metal trappings. Cradle of Filth have always been the Iron Maiden of extreme metal to me. They helped shape the black metal scene outside of Scandinavia and then they transcended it and became something more sophisticated than what their peers had done. Just as Iron Maiden had with the NWOBHM. I am one of the biggest black metal fans you will ever run across. I mean the real stuff. Pure Norwegian Black Metal mostly, but the lads from Sweden known as the mighty WATAIN rank right up there with any of the early second wave of black metal. It's always amusing to me that nobody talks about the awesome sound quality of most of their albums. They also had buckets and buckets of shit thrown at them when they released "The Wild Hunt" because it had a couple of slower paced tracks. For those who around at that time, Opeth released their last death album on Roadrunner in 2000. At that time they had become about as big as the major labels, and the majority of their bands we Nů Metal Hacks. Idiots actually believed Opeth was about to go Nů Metal. The Filth jumped to Roadrunner in 2004 and got a similar response. Anybody who tries to hate on Damnation and a Day is perfectly within their rights to do so, but please, take your head out of your ass first. You might just may learn something if you do.
Avoidance attachment hears all about the thing the entire way home with dismissive attachment. Avoidance attachment can only respond that was not Avoidance of the thing.
This is really not bad!! I'd just say add some background keys, song string chords during the "why have you forsaken me" part to give it more feeling there. Other than that, very good!
