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Cruelty and the Beast

Artist Cradle of Filth Released 1998 Type album

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Third of the sixteen Cradle of Filth records held here. It came seven years into a run that began in 1991. 1998 is four years into Symphonic black metal, which this tree dates from 1994.

From Wikipedia

Cruelty and the Beast is the third studio album by English extreme metal band Cradle of Filth, released on 5 May 1998 by Music for Nations. It is a concept album based on the legend of the Hungarian "blood countess" Elizabeth Báthory and features guest narration by actress Ingrid Pitt in-character as Báthory, a role she first played in the Hammer Horror film Countess Dracula in 1971.

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