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Godspeed on the Devil's Thunder
- Edition
- Standard edition
- Release date
- 28 October 2008
- Label
- Roadrunner Records
- Catalog no.
- RR 7924-2
- Format
- CD, a limited two-disc CD and a two-disc 12-inch LP
- Bonus
- Thirteen songs on the standard release; the limited edition carries a bonus disc of demos, covers and two songs recorded live in Philadelphia on 31 October 2007.
LINER NOTES
LANGUAGE
It was released on 28 October 2008 on Roadrunner Records, subtitled The Life and Crimes of Gilles de Rais. It was recorded between March and June 2008 at Backstage Studios in Derbyshire and produced by Andy Sneap, Doug Cook and the band.
The subject is Gilles de Rais, the marshal who fought beside Joan of Arc and was later executed for mass murder. It is the band's fourth concept album, after Cruelty and the Beast, Midian and Damnation and a Day.
"The Death of Love" led it out and was given a music video. Thirteen tracks, 71 minutes and 22 seconds.
TRACK LIST
- 1.In Grandeur and Frankincense Devilment Stirs
- 2.Shat Out of Hell
- 3.The Death of Love
- 4.The 13th Caesar
- 5.Tiffauges
- 6.Tragic Kingdom
- 7.Sweetest Maleficia
- 8.Honey and Sulphur
- 9.Midnight Shadows Crawl to Darken Counsel with Life
- 10.Darkness Incarnate
- 11.Ten Leagues Beneath Contempt
- 12.Godspeed on the Devil's Thunder
- 13.Corpseflower