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Darkly, Darkly, Venus Aversa
- Edition
- Standard edition
- Release date
- 1 November 2010
- Label
- Peaceville; Nuclear Blast in the United States
- Catalog no.
- CDVILEF411
- Format
- CD, a limited two-disc CD and a two-disc 12-inch LP
- Bonus
- Eleven songs on the standard release; the limited edition carries a bonus disc with "Beast of Extermination", "Truth & Agony", "Mistress from the Sucking Pit" and "Behind the Jagged Mountains". Peaceville reissued it in 2026 as a single-disc mid-price CD (CDVILED1419) with three of those as bonus tracks.
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It was released on 1 November 2010 on Peaceville in Europe and Nuclear Blast in the United States, recorded in June 2010 at Monkey Puzzle House Studio in Woolpit, Suffolk.
The subject is Lilith: in Jewish tradition Adam's first wife, who left him rather than submit, and the Venus Aversa of the subtitle, love's goddess turned away. Dani Filth said at the time that it was the fastest and most savage thing the band had made.
It is the only Cradle of Filth album with the keyboard player Ashley Ellyllon, and the last with the bassist Dave Pybus and the guitarist James McIlroy. Two of its songs, "Lilith Immaculate" and "Forgive Me Father (I Have Sinned)", were given music videos. Eleven tracks, 62 minutes and 37 seconds.
TRACK LIST
- 1.The Cult of Venus Aversa
- 2.One Foul Step from the Abyss
- 3.The Nun with the Astral Habit
- 4.Retreat of the Sacred Heart
- 5.The Persecution Song
- 6.Deceiving Eyes
- 7.Lilith Immaculate
- 8.The Spawn of Love and War
- 9.Harlot on a Pedestal
- 10.Forgive Me Father (I Have Sinned)
- 11.Beyond Eleventh Hour