(Lyrics) Spawned wanton like blight on an auspicious night Her eyes betrayed spells of the moon's eerie light A disquieting gaze forever ghosting far seas Bled white and dead, Her true mother was fed To the ravenous wolves that the elements led From crag-jagged mountains that seemingly grew in unease Through the maw of the woods, a black carriage was drawn Flanked by barbed lightning that hissed of the storm (Gilded in crests of Carpathian breed) Bringing slaves to the sodomite for the new-born On that eve when the Countess' own came deformed A tragedy crept to the name Bathory Elizabeth christened, no paler a rose Grew so dark as this sylph None more cold in repose Yet Her beauty spun webs Round hearts a glance would betroth She feared the light So when She fell like a sinner to vice Under austere, puritanical rule She sacrificed Mandragora like virgins to rats in the wall But after whipangels licked prisoners, thralled Never were Her dreams so maniacally cruel (And possessed of such delights) For ravens winged Her nightly flights Of erotica Half spurned from the pulpit Torments to occur Half learnt from the cabal of demons In Her Her walk went to voodoo To see Her own shadow adored At mass without flaw Though inwards She abhored Not Her coven of suitors But the stare of their Lord "I must avert mine eyes to hymns For His gaze brings dogmas to my skin He knows that I dreamt of carnal rites With Him undead for three long nights" Elizabeth listened No sermons intoned Dragged such guilt to Her door Tombed Her soul with such stone For She swore the Priest sighed When She knelt down to atone She feared the light So when She fell Like a sinner to vice Under austere, puritanical rule She sacrificed Her decorum as chaste To this wolf of the cloth Pouncing to haunt Her confessional box Forgiveness would come When Her sins were washed off By rebaptism in white The looking glass cast Belladonna wreaths 'Pon the grave of Her innocence Her hidden face spat murder From a whisper to a scream All sleep seemed cursed In Faustian verse But there in orgiastic Hell No horrors were worse Than the mirrored revelation The She kissed the Devil's phallus By Her own decree So with windows flung wide to the menstrual sky Solstice Eve She fled the castle in secret A daughter of the storm, astride Her favourite nightmare On winds without prayer Stigmata still wept between Her legs A cold bloodedness which impressed new hatreds She sought the Sorceress Through the snow and dank woods to the sodomite's lair Nine twisted fates threw hewn bone die For the throat of Elizabeth Damnation won and urged the moon In soliloquy to gleam Twixt the trees in shafts To ghost a path Past the howl of buggered nymphs In the sodomite's grasp To the forest's vulva Where the witch scholared Her In even darker themes "Amongst philtres and melissas Midst the grease of strangled men And eldritch truths, elder ill-omen Elizabeth came to life again" And under lacerations of dawn She returned Like a flame unto a deathshead With a promise to burn Secrets brooded as She rode Through mist and marsh to where they showed Her castle walls wherein the restless Counted carrion crows She awoke from a fable to mourning Church bells wringing Her madly from sleep Tolled by a priest, self castrated and hung Like a crimson bat 'neath the belfry The biblical prattled their mantras Hexes six-tripled their fees But Elizabeth laughed, thirteen Autumns had passed And She was a widow from god and His wrath, finally
I came here to listen to the remaster of Cruelty and the beast, but found this instead. Well done, and I mean, WELL DONE! This is just ridiculously accurate and deserves a lot more recognition. Cheers!
Damn man, this is fantastic! I'm in the breakroom at work, listening on earbuds... people keep looking at me funny cuz I can't help but growl along lol! Greetings from Seattle!
I gotta say, this is pretty close to the original. Usually I find covers to be half assed but I could be tricked to thinking this was actually cradle playing a different mix.
Amazing cover. Perfect execution, some modified parts giving your touch to the cover, and an amazing tone that are similar but not equal to the original music. (I love the tone of guitars of this album and this music specially) Now I have 3 version of this music to listen for the rest of my life! Thank you so much.
Obrigado pelo excelente comentário! Sim, as partes modificadas partem sempre daquela interpretação única que cada um de nós faz daquilo que ouve. A experiência depois faz sempre com que mais tarde identifiquemos coisas que não estão bem como deviam ter sido, mas no geral fiquei muito contente com o resultado final desta cover. Também adoro o tone muito particular das guitarras na versão original, como de resto adoro o tone de todos os trabalhos que envolveram o Stuart Anstis. Tem aquela vibe híbrida entre Maiden e o Metal mais extremo muito bem conseguida. Saudações lusas!
@@JaimeNoro opa companheiro de idioma. Editei meu comentário na parte "How I have" para "Now I have" Agora tenho 3 versões dessa musica pra escutar, a primeira original, a remaster e esse cover, todas pra mim estão no mesmo nível. Eu particularmente gostei muito do seu cover por ser instrumental, e na mix ter dado mais enfase no som belissimo da guitarra e em segundo lugar do teclado (pelo menos foi o que percebi). Essa parte de alterar algumas partes incluindo a maneira como imaginamos que ficaria melhor é incrível, eu queria ter conhecimento teórico musical suficiente pra conseguir fazer isso pois tem algumas partes de várias musicas que eu queria modificar, até mesmo pra outros instrumentos (exemplo: LIke a Stone do Audioslave, acho a bateria muito repetitiva e que não combina com a música). Quanto ao seu cover pode ficar satisfeito mesmo e se orgulhar porque ficou incrível, nível profissional. Você é músico profissional?
@@WillVRam não, nem por isso, sou apenas um músico amador que gosta de fazer estas coisas. Nunca fiz disto uma actividade profissional. O que eu gosto mesmo é de guitarras, amplificadores, pedais, speakers e depois tentar converter isso para uma produção como esta cover. Nunca fui grande criativo, mas tiro bastante prazer de perseguir aquele tone de guitarra que tenho na cabeça e depois tentar traduzi-lo para uma música que gosto e fazer a minha versão dela. É por isso que depois acabo por fazer uma descrição completa do material que usei para a produção (como podes ver na descrição do vídeo). Um abraço!
@@JaimeNoro olha pra mim seu cover está no mesmo nível de bandas profissionais. Você pode não ser um compositor, ou pelo menos não tão incrível quanto Stuart Anstis, mas no que você disse ser o seu maior prazer (construir timbres) você é tão bom quanto Stuart é em compor. Eu li sim a sua descrição logo na primeira vez que assisti o vídeo, mas confesso que gostaria muito de conhecer minunciosamente como você construiu esse timbre, pois apesar de ser leigo nisso tenho muita curiosidade e vontade de aprender. O timbre na música pra mim é como o tempero na comida, ou seja, muito importante. Eu gostei tanto do seu cover que estou ouvindo todos os dias, várias vezes no dia. Eu usaria a função de aplaudir o vídeo se tivesse dinheiro (situação financeira bem difícil aqui por enquanto, mas logo acho que conseguirei me formar e espero que as coisas mudem). Se você fizesse um mini curso compartilhando seus conhecimentos sobre construção de timbre eu compraria. Abraços!
I'm really glad I found this great version. I cannot stand the fact that the COF vocalist won't shut up from time to time to let us enjoy the instruments. COF has such beautiful musical moments, but every time they start, Danni makes sure to open his mouth again.
Can't blame you at all,. His voice is grating and def. turned off a lot of my friends from listening to this band. The composition and blended sounds from the musicians however, especially on the first few albums is really quite amazing.
Ah, the drums could be better... My other CoF version has better drums, although the overall sound is rawer (like the original was too). But yeah, I'm really proud of this one. Thank you for checking it out!
This album and Vempire are masterpieces .Barker and Stuart were the absolute geniuses behind them . Danis lyrics were also at their but his vocals were too heavy in the mix on this album
I'm not sure I understand the question, but I'll try to answer anyway. I played the instruments (guitar and bass) and programmed drums, choirs and orchestrations. Then I mixed and mastered the whole thing. I hope you're not thinking that this has something to do with the original recording of Cruelty and the Beast. You wouldn't be the first to assume that, but I assure you, that's not my thing.
Hey dude, just wanted to let you know I loved your cover so much I made a vocal cover using your backing track. It's up on my channel should you want to take a look. You rock dude, the single BEST COF instrumental on RU-vid!
Altho I'm gettin bit older n prefer to hear these awesome riffs without all the abrasive shouting.still,gotta admit,this concept album flowd so well n the vocals/beats were so hypnotic that to this day it's one of the few shouty albums I can still listen to over n over (when I'm not wussing-out listening to classical 😄)
Yeah, I can understand that. These vocals can be hard on the ear. And in this case I do think they're mixed way too loud in the original album, which doesn't help. But from the creative point of view, yeah, it's a masterpiece. This one, Dusk and Vempire are all modern classics, imo.
any chance you could make the backing track available for download man? (with out guitars) this is a great learning resource thanks so much for posting
Hola Jaime, He utilizado tu cover para cantar encima... tengo pensado en subirla en youtube, si lo hago, evidentemente pondré tu nombre (espero que no te importe). Está muy bien hecha :)
Hey Jaime, can I use this and your immortal cover if I credit you and provide a link back to this video? If you'd like more details you can message me (I tried to private message you but didn't see an option for it)
Very nice. I hadn't listened to CoF in almost 15 years and I recently came back to their music only to be a bit dissuaded by Dani's vocals. Back in the day, the way he screeched and screamed was pretty unique and extreme but nowadays it just sounds a bit too cheesy . The music however stands timelessly great.
Thanks! I'm totally with you on Dani's voice. I don't think he had any choice though, those early years must have been pretty rough on his throat. About the music, I don't know. I love Principle, the Vempire EP, Dusk and Cruelty, but the rest come across as nice, but not phenomenal. I reckon Dani went on a more comercial approach, neglecting that more sombre, extreme feeling that band had in it's early years. Many band members walked out because of that, I think (Nick Barker, Les Smith, Stuart Anstis...)
Yeah, I agree. I would maybe add Midian to the list of their great albums although it was probably the first album that featured this commercial approach. On the other hand, I think it may also have to do with the fact that this whole gothic romance/vampire theme they adopted has been overdone to the ground through the years, not just in music but in other avenues of art like in film for example (blade, underworld ,twilight to name a few), to the point where it kinda lost its allure anymore and it became stale and corny. I mean, compare Bram Stoker's Dracula to the Twilight franchise and you see what I mean..That might just be me in my 30s talking though, lol.
I totally agree (maybe because I'm in my 30's as well ahah)! I think, though, that that victorian vampire imagery/approach will never be out of fashion... It became kind of a vaccum space in the metal scene that almost no one ever tried to fill after CoF went onto other stylistic themes. But then, there's the musical difference. CoF is a different band altogether now and, sadly, I don't think any other band could make this kind of vampiric gothic/black metal type thing with this level of musical quality. These guys were pretty unique :)
Oh yeah absolutely, I didn't mean to imply that the vampire/gothic culture is a boring one. On the contrary, as you said, there are just no decent artistic manifestations of this theme these days. In any case, good job on that cover!
