A Limited Edition version of the album was released, and was packaged in a hard box containing: ĭarkly, Darkly, Venus Aversa was released on 1 November by record label Peaceville. On 29 September Cradle of Filth released the first official video of the album for the track "Forgive Me Father (I Have Sinned)".
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On 20 August 2010, a free mp3 of the track "Lilith Immaculate" was released by the band as reward for signing up for a mailing list following the album's development. The special edition bonus track "Adest Rosa Secreta Eros" is arguably an instrumental, but features extensive narrative excerpts taken from Aleister Crowley's The Book of the Law. The core album is the band's first to not feature any instrumental tracks. The Metal Hammer interview also likened it to King Diamond. At an early stage of the album's development in August 2009, Filth hinted that the album's sound was "creepily melodic, like Mercyful Fate or a dark Iron Maiden". Essentially, at heart, it's a nice gothic horror story." Reference to Greek mythology and the Knights Templar is also made, in what was referred to by the label as "a dark tapestry of horror, madness and twisted sex".
"It's about the resurgence of Lilith into modern society as a deity", Filth said. Unlike previous historically-based concept albums Godspeed on the Devil's Thunder and Cruelty and the Beast, Darkly, Darkly tells an original story.
Dani Filth revealed to Metal Hammer in September 2010 that it would be a "feminine" companion piece to Godspeed, "which was a very masculine album, obviously due to its protagonist, Gilles de Rais". Prior to its release the album was erroneously referred to as All Hallows Eve, probably because the announced release date was close to Halloween.ĭarkly, Darkly, Venus Aversa is a concept album in the same vein as its predecessor Godspeed on the Devil's Thunder, this time centering on the demon Lilith, the first wife of the biblical Adam.
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