The Principle of Evil Made Flesh

 

THE PRINCIPLE OF EVIL MADE FLESH- EL PRINCIPIO DEL DEMONIO HECHO CARNE

El principio del demonio hecho carne es el álbum de estudio debut de la banda de metal extremo CRADLE OF FILTH. Fue lanzado el 24 de febrero de 1994 a través del estudio Cacophonous Records. El álbum sigue a tres demos lanzados entre 1991 y 1993. El sonido del álbum es significativamente más crudo que en lanzamientos subsiguientes, y la voz del líder de la banda Dani Filth difiere  de su estilo posterior y técnica. El álbum es un híbrido poco usual de metal gótico y black metal. Este es el único álbum en el que el guitarrista Paul Ryan y el tecladista Benjamin Ryan participan. El guitarrista Paul Allender también participó en este álbum pero dejó la banda después del lanzamiento del álbum, retornando cinco años después para el álbum MIDIAN.

Algunas de las canciones de este álbum fueron regrabadas más adelante para el álbum V Empire (1996), Bitter Suites to Succubi (2001) y Midnight in the Labyrinth (2012).

A pesar de los comentarios hechos por la vocalista de apoyo Andrea Meyer quien se consideró así misma como "asesora satánica", las letras del álbum hacen una escasa mención a Satanás o al satanismo. Referencias específicas aparecen únicamente en la canción introductoria "Darkness our Bride" (La oscuridad nuestra novia) con el canto "Agios (santo) o Satanás", e indirectamente en la canción "Of Mist and Midnight Skies" (De cielos nublados y de media noche) en donde se presenta una línea sobre un decreto satánico. Otro ejemplo son las palabras de Paul Ryan en los notas de los créditos "Satanic War noise" (Ruido de guerra satánico). A pesar de no haber muchas referencias a Satanás o al satanismo, cabe resaltar que las letras de las canciones están cargadas de sentimientos anti religiosos en canciones como "The forest Whispers my Name" (El bosque susurra mi nombre) y "A Crescendo of Passion Bleeding" (Un clímax de pasión sangrante).

El álbum contiene muchas referencias mitológicas y ocultistas que incluyen a Set, la Valkiria, Hécate, Bafomet, Artemisa, Bastet, Astarté, Ishtar, Khem, Al- Uzza, Eva, Aleister Crowley (a través de su cita de "Do what thou wilt" (haz lo que quieras), Diana y Lilith. El cuadernillo del álbum también contiene citas de Hegel, Swinburne y Hitler.

Canciones:

1. Darkness Our Bride (Jugular Wedding)

1. La oscuridad nuestra novia (boda yugular)

Agios o Satanas. - Santo o Satanás

2. The Principle Of Evil M.ade Flesh - El principio del demonio hecho carne

From the primeval mass - Desde las misas primitivas

Let precious chaos vent - deja que el precioso chaos se desahogue

Sacred flesh drenched in fornication - Carne santa empapada en fornicación

Beloved by Set - amada por Set

May the winds gather her together -puedan los vientos reunirla junto

From the secrets of men -a los secretos de hombres

After thousands of years of terrifying silence - después de miles de años de terrorífico silencio

She comes again - ella viene otra vez

(All Destroyer) - (toda destructora)

The abolition of the yeshua begins... - La abolición del Jesús comienza...

Shattered are the icons of the worthless - destrozados están los íconos de los inútiles

The Goddess scorned is a Valkyrie born - La diosa despreciada es una valkiria nacida

Scattered are the wings of the virulent holy - diseminadas están las alas del despiadado santo

Leave their husks to be the prey of vultures and dogs - deja sus pedazos para ser la presa de buitres y perros

World without end - mundo sin fin

Cherish the lissome wants of pernicious evil - mantiene los deseos flexibles de demonio maligno

Dusk in her eyes - oscuridad en sus ojos

Torn bloody weeping skies - cielos llorosos sangrientamente rasgados

Darkness will hasten to devour - La oscuridad se apurará para tragar

And the weak will flee or die - y el débil huirá o morirá

Sie sind es die sich - tu eres el mismo

An der Liebe festhalten - aferrándose al amor

Für immer betend auf knien - Orando de rodillas para siempre

Vor der finsteren göttin - Ante la diosa oscura

I slay the lamb in the fervour of thine - Asesino al cordero en tu fervor

Abandonment unto Our Lady - rendición hacia nuestra señora

With a quenchless thirst for the infinite - con una inagotable sed por lo infinito

For Her that exists beyond all knowledge - por ella que existe más allá de todo lo conocido

Storming from tired centuries -vigorosa desde siglos cansados 

Under the glare of a waxing death-moon - bajo el resplandor de una creciente luna muerta

Terrible beauty of love severed - terrible belleza de amor cortado

Rip the baby from the virginal womb - desgarra al bebé del útero virginal.

The blood of Jesus - La sangre de Jesús

Is the wine of the dead - es el vino de los muertos

And the drunken angels - y los ángeles ébrios

Bleed with incest - sangran con incesto

The Liliot suckle on Her fruitful breasts - Lilith amamanta desde sus fructíferos pechos

And yield the swords that sever and stain - y cede el paso a las espadas que amputan y ensucian

There will be no act or passion wrought -No habrá acto o pasión forjadas

That shall not be attributed to Her names - que no sean atribuidas a su nombre

To the name of Baphomet... - al nombre de Bafomet...

Artemis, Bastet, Astarte - Artemisa, Bastet, Astarté

I yearn to thee who art darkness in thy rising - Las anhelo a ustedes que son oscuridad en su levantamiento

"Weltmacht oder Niedergang" - potencia mundial o decadencia

Aquí encuentras una versión en vivo de "The Principle of Evil Made Flesh"

3. The Forest Whispers My Name - El bosque susurra mi nombre

Black candles dance to an overture - Velas negras bailan para una overtura

But I am drawn past their flickering lure - pero estoy abierto más allá de su titilante tentación

To the breathing forest that surrounds the room - al bosque vivo que rodea el cuarto

Where the vigilant trees push out of the womb - donde los árboles vigilantes salen de los úteros

I sip the blood-red wine - bebo a sorbos el vino rojo sangre

My thoughts weigh heavy with the burden of time - mis pensamientos se vuelven pesados con la carga del tiempo

From knowledge drunk from the fountain of life - del conocimiento tomado de la fuente de la vida

From Chaos born out of love and the scythe - del caos nacido del amor y la guadaña

The forest beckons with her nocturnal call - El bosque atrae con su llamado nocturno

To pull me close amid the baying of wolves  - Para acercarme a los aullidos de los lobos

Where the bindings of Christ are down-trodden with scorn - donde las quejas de Cristo son aplastadas con desprecio

In the dark, odiferous earth - en la oscura y olorosa tierra

We embrace like two lovers at death - Abrazamos como dos enamorados la muerte

A monument to the trapping of breath - un monumento al dejar de respirar

As restriction is bled from the veins of my neck - Como la sangre es extraída de las venas de mi cuello 

To drop roses on my marbled breast - Para descender rosas por mi jaspeado pecho

I lust for the wind and the flurry of leaves - Deseo el viento y oleadas de hojas

And the perfume of flesh on the murderous breeze - y el perfume de carne en la brisa asesina

To learn from the dark and the voices between - Para aprender de la oscuridad y de las voces interiores

This is my will... - Esta es mi voluntad....

The forest whispers my name... again and again - El bosque susurra mi nombre...una y otra vez

The forest whispers my name... - El bosque susurra mi nombre

I walk the path - Camino el sendero

To the land of the Dark Immortals - a la tierra de los inmortales oscuros

Where the hungry ones will carry my soul - dosnde los hambrientos llevarán mi alma 

As the wild hunt careers through the boughs como la caza salvaje se precipita a través de las ramas

Come to me, my Pale Enchantress - ven a mi, mi insulsa hechicera

In the moon of the woods we kiss - en la luna de los bosques nos besamos

Artemis be near me - Artemisa mantente cerca  a mi

In the arms of the ancient oak - En los brazos del roble antiguo

Where daylight hangs by a lunar noose - donde la luz del día pende de un hilo en la horca de la luna

And the horned, hidden one is re-invoked - y el oculto cornudo en re invocado

The principle of Evil - El principio del demonio

Evolution has been recalled -  La evolución ha sido recordada

Beneath the spread of a Magickal Aeon - bajo la difusión de una mágica éra

I stand enthralled - permanezco cautivado

...In the whispering forest - ...en el bosque susurrante

Escucha "The Forest Whispers my Name" dando click en el video

4. Iscariot (instrumental)

5. The Black Goddess Rises - La diosa negra resurge

Thee I invoke, bornless one - Te invoco a ti, la aún no nacida

All woman, pure predator - todas las mujeres, depredadoras puras

Wherein conspiracy and impulse dwell -donde la conspiración  y el impulso habitan

Like a seething fall from grace - como hervidero caído en desgracia

Thee I worship... A ti te venero....

Thou art darkest Gabrielle - Eres la más oscura Gabriela

Lilith who rode the steed - Lilith que montó el corcél

Thou art pale Hecate - Eres la pálida Hecate

Rising from Thessaly - Resurgiendo desde Tesalia.

Crush their unworthy idols - aplasta sus ídolos sin valor

No church shall bar our path - Ninguna iglesia prohibirá nuestro sendero

Seductive Evil, drink your fill - Demonio seductor, bebe tu saciedad

Of the bleeding Christ in your arms - Del sangrante Cristo en tus brazos

You are in my dreams - Estas en mis sueños

The darkness in my eyes - La oscuridad en mis ojos

The rapture in my screams - el éxtasis en mis gritos

Black Goddess arise - Diosa oscura levántate

Nothing will keep us apart - Nada nos separará

We could kill them all - podremos matarlos a todos

If our desire tore free - si nuestro deseo corre libre

Our union is one, sweet, sinful Eve - Nuestra unión es una, dulce y pecadora Eva

And the night draws in beside her

As we embrace the dark side by side

I pour my soul to those eyes full of fire

To harvest the seed ploughed inside her

Archangel, snare the flesh

Suck dry the ebbing wound

Leave them lifeless and broken

My beloved...

Oh, how I have craved for you

You so pure and other-worldly with your scent of Winter

Am I to bleed myself dry just to see your delight?

And the fear retreats forever

(Come to me... Black Goddess arise)

When my secrets are buried in thine

(Come to me... Black Goddess arise)

Under seven stars we came together

(Come to me... Black Goddess arise)

To plot the new age's decline

(Come to me... ARISE!)

Ishtar my Queen

Come forth to me

And help me seize

My future from the House of Death

That in the release of immortality

I should slay their fucking Nazarene

Ah... the lies... the jew... I kill for you

Hidden lusts will break the gates and swarm

As love secretes the thrill for war

The virgin raped shall seek to whore

She-wolf bare your snarling jaw

"Caught in thy net of shadows,

What dreams hast thou to show?

Who treads the silent meadows,

To worship thee below?"

6. One Final Graven Kiss

7. A Crescendo Of Passion Bleeding

Spells lay daggers before me

Passion speaks in grue vehement stabs

Trance my eyes, fix my focus to pain

The tumour grows until the enemy is slain

(Gut The Church)

Slightless storm

Knee-deep in hate I seeth

My purpose here has woken to breath

Total war on the brethren of Men

Millions regardless

Dying by my hand

A Black Age Of Fire

Brief in its vicious eloquence

Removing the dross

Love will arise from the ashes of your loss

Then and only then

Will the pleasure of Eden be mine

And the sinews of life itself will be tied

In the very veins of my bloodline

And their tears taste like wine...

I will rule as a king

And the Goddess will sit as my guiding Queen

In the glory of the earth our crowns are studded

With the jewels of blasphemy

The blood is the life!

I seek to evoke a new order in Man

A flood of compulsion to resurrect Khem

The lion is vexed to uproot and descend

Chaos my steed in the thick, clinging dust

Tempering weapons of criminal lust

I hold sway from the East to fulfill prophecies

Thinning the cause as fresh cells to disease

The blood is the life!

Even the moon will not lend thee her light

The darkness serves will to snuff out human life

That I might reclaim the world as my right

I kill without scruple or silent regret

In haunts of the sinister lunar aspect

For I am the pleasure that comes from your pain

Tiny red miracles falling like... rain

The incessant pall of death surrounds me

But this is not the part of me that wishes to breed

There will be no dread thereafter

The mysteries I reveal unto thee

I stir the hearts of the wisest

By the fools I will always be feared

My Kingdom feeds off their slaughter...

A crescendo of passion bleeding...

On the pale reflection of dawn

Devour The Sun

"The Great Man of his time

Is He who expresses

The Will of his time;

Who tells his time what it wills;

And who carries it out"

[Hegel]

8. To Eve The Art Of Witchcraft

Crawl in awful stealth to me

Forever a voyeur I've been

Nocturnal Goddess of the Moon

So she comes, unseen

Thus (Uzza and Azel) speak

The burning seed, is thrust in Eve

And yearning keeps me, captive of desire

Make me as a flower that grows

Forever in your throne

That I might pollinate the world

With darkness as your own

Embrace me in spellbinding eyes

The fire of life that never dies

Tear deeper through my paper wounds

And never leave inside

Love shall consume and bathe the Lady

Whom I worship and ride thereon

She will greet me as a serpent

In her dark, secret Eden

And I will always want

For her witchcraft is

Desire... (Desire...)

My soul is poisoned from within...

I crawl with languid guilt to thee

Forever flushed in sin

Lamia, latria I give

My soul is poisoned from within

Wisdom breeds, fecundity

And her cunt she feeds, to fulfill her desire

To Eve I cum...

Sevenfold my passion wrought

To ransack Eden, and to taste the whore

I cling beyond her sabled court

She is a gateway, to that darkness lost

(Now dream...)

I am the gentle stream

That trickles through the summer glades

Of ever green peace

Therefore we will drink my sleep and dream

I am the bleeding sky,

The snatching wind of war

Blowing through the savage garden

My crown is fire, the erotic sinews of lust

Like strings to be pulled, and cut

I will make my puppets dance

The men will bow down before me

To take my flesh as lucid thoughts

Of dark, unbridled lust

I am all these things and more

Thus I await you, nemesis of restraint

The code of life, and the bride of evil itself

Oh, the fevered need for Her

When greed and lust are sharpened in that one desire

The all-consuming fire

Reveal to me your mysteries, Witch

The tree is plundered but I have the seed

To be sown in thee

"Mon sortilege a ete le pouvoir qui diovent

Avoir les ames fortes sur les espirits faibles"

[Leonora Galigai]

9. Of Mist And Midnight Skies

We, the nocturnal few

Bound by other laws

To the service of the enemies of god

Are silent and hidden

Yet our exquisite fire burns on

Poised to engulf...

Tie a man to his god

He may not walk for fear

Of falling foul to temptation

Where once faith stood her ground

Renounce the guilt, ignite the flame

Cast the fetid virgin back from where she came

Drink deep of the promise in my eyes...

Of mist and midnight skies

I drown in fathomless dreams

And in the reeking mire of virtue scream

I yearn to sell my very soul

(And you shall

For none so dark & sinister

Will arise to embrace the Arts)

Do What Thou Wilt

Until the stones in my heart stand still

Regardless of the cost to your repugnant god

The last May frost may blight the crops

And will never be ascribed to be heavenly dog

Or nature, but infernal tasks...

"By your cursings and imprecations

You wrong both Man & beast

By whatever whim you serve

Of the Devil your leige"

Tie belief to the trinity, and seven ways

Will be wrought to condemn thee

Conspiring to cull the pagan ways

Twist back their lies, personify their needs

The war begins by Satanic decree

If Evil we be, we will our lives...

To mist and midnight skies

(I will avenge the deaths of a thousand burning children)

Be bound to a covenant with us in our hellish league

And bring the host of the Nazarene to their knees

Breath the life of an entity never-born

Darkness now descend in raven form

The words, the burning rasp, vibrate the cosmic thread

Arcturus is risen Queen, hold forth the severed head to me

I pour my lovelorn kisses at your feet

Raper of all my worldly enemies

Lycanthropy, please poison me

Send acausal instincts crawling through my brain

Take me, Mistress, until perversion is fed

Dark Magick pleasures weaved under the jewelled moon-head

The cross-stick will fade when the usurper hangs

For now we congregate where once my angel sang

That night they came and took her away from me

I lost the woman I loved and I learned how to curse

And to spit in the face of their Jesus fucking "God"

We will ride again

In the midnight skies

10. In Secret Love We Drown

11. A Dream Of Wolves In The Snow

"Oh, listen to them

The children of the night

What sweet music they make"

[From Bram Stoker's "Dracula" (1897)]

May dreams be brought that I might reach...

The gentle strains of midnight speech

And frozen stars that gild the forest floor

Through the swirling snow

Volkh's children come

To run with me, to hunt as one

To snatch the lambs of Christ

From where they fall...

12. Summer Dying Fast

Through acrid clouds of summer flies

The garden swells with a thousand more wise

Forever flung to celestial dreams

Clawing at the grave of the dead Nazarene

I watch the storm approaching

The darkness calls my name

The trees are growing restless

They feel the season change

Their fruit has putrified

Forbidden once and bound to die

The thread of life lies severed

On the brink of paradise

Grinning winds of hate unfurled

Dash towers tall that grip the sun

Talons stretch her veil

Reclamation, our time has come...

Autumn spreads its golden wings

And lays the path for those unseen

A tangled web of evil spun at last...

Winter spawn from barren thighs

To readdress, to slay the blind

And throw the reins untethered to the skies

They pray to the full moon rising

Diana moving with such infinite grace

Wrapped alone in a blanket of nightfall

How many secrets can they read by your face?

Will they know of majesty

Of beauty held in dream-dead sleep

And scarlet seas that bleed the frozen shores?

Will their "god" of bridled love

Assuage our rule from planes above

Or shrink in fear from Chaos roused for war?

WAR!

Wrest askew the nails

That have held you, lurking deep

September prayers are waning

Burn the shrines of fettered sheep

Spearhead the insurrection

Of a world that seeks no end

"We are what we are, what we shall be, again..."

Appear; draped in terror

To the comfort of your kin

Stain the milky sunset red

And let the others in...

Summer's dying...

13. Imperium Tenebrarum

Swords in hand at the bloody fields of history

We rend our blades through dogma and humility

Carve the future according to our will

Set worlds ablaze with our seething fire

Let you all acknowledge that we are here

As masters to rule this failing humanity

Our beings formed in rage and defiance

With strength to trample the weak and the foolish

And so we march with burning brands

Temples of flame on our path to glory

Dani Filth - Dark Immortal Screams

Paul Allender - Desponent Night Chords

Ben Ryan - Gothic Vampyric Overtures

Rob Graves - Nocturnal Pulse

Paul Ryan - Satanic War Noise

Nic Barker - Winter Evening Sto

Vocals on "A Dream Of Wolves In The Snow" by Darren (Anathema).

All female vocals arranged and performed by Andrea Meyer.

Cello accompaniment by Soror Proselemos.

"Imperium Tenebrarum" written and invoked by Frater Nihil.

All music by Cradle Of Filth.

All lyrics by Dani.