Cradle of Filth Album: “Peace Through Superior Firepower”

I have been a BIG Cradle Fan for well over 10 years, I definately AGREE with alot of the previous reviews about the concert being FANTASTIC!! (GREAT set-list/both old and New songs!!)Cradle have a really TERRIFIC stageshow and their sound production on the concert was Crystal Clear!!I think the part I enjoyed the most were the EXTRA'S!!!( You literally get an arsenal of Music videos from the band!!)EXAMPLE: 1)"Her Ghost In The Fog"(MY PERSONAL FAVORITE VIDEO AND A CLASSIC!) 2)"No Time To Cry" 3)"Promise Of Fever" 4)"Babylon A.D." 5)Nymphetamine"(GREAT VIDEO!!)6)"Manniquin" plus the behind the scenes footage is both interesting and Funny at the same time! This band is ABSOLUTELY HUGE overseas and I really hope one day to see them become that way here in the U.S.(They really deserve it!) This much talent should both be seen and heard on a much larger audience scale!!!I would like to also make note of the fact that I personally have NOT experienced ANY problems with the visual aspect of this DVD! (I think it looks and sounds great!)In my opinion this DVD is just as good if not better in ALOT of ways from the previous DVD's.If you have never seen the band live or any of thier great music videos this is definately a GREAT place to start! Long Time fans of The Filth will definately enjoy hearing the older tracks played live!!A Good example Is: "The Forest Whispers My Name", "Black Goddess Rises", "A Gothic Romance"(I LOVE THIS TRACK!! A TRUE FILTH CLASSIC!!)and the Absolutely AWSOME "13 Autums And A Widow"!!!The Newer live tracks are amazing too!!Example:"Nymphetamine", "Nemesis" and "From The Cradle To Enslave" plus many more!! Please don't just take my word for it , pick this DVD up and give it a try and I have a good feeling you will NOT be dissapointed!!Plus don't forget to check out the Bands other DVD's too!!EXAMPLE: "Heavy Left Handed and Candid" and "PanDaemonAeon" LONG LIVE METAL!! AND KEEP SPREADING THE FILTH!!!!!!!!!

First the good:

This DvD is quite a value for the $, the live paris set list is exceptional and really gives a "best of..." style look at the band. The behind the scenes footage, like in "heavy, left handed, and candid" is funny as hell like always. Also, the production is simply joygasmic, plug this DvD into Surround Sound and you'll feel like your right there in the pit. Finally, the music videos and web extras are sweet too; who can complain for $20. Well, me b/c I'm pompus :)

Now, for the bad:

This is going to sound pretentious, but the DvD is way overproduced. Did anyone else notice that Dani's lips are not in time with the words that are coming out of his mouth during the Paris footage and neither is the guitar playing? What your getting with "...superior firepower," is a combination of the live tracks from the show and what appears to be a studio engineered(and probably re-recorded) mixed down, mastered, and then edited version ment to appear as though it is a live concert. Don't get me wrong, most live albums aren't totally live (bands ussually re-record tracks to thicken up the sound), but this is painfully obvious. With all due respect, we are Cradle of f*cking Filth fans, we can deal with a few bad notes, it adds intimacy to the experience. Don't insult your audience by sterilizing your performances for video, we want the good, the badass, and the always ugly. There is also a recurring sense of overcommercialization permeating the video, which is unfortunate because Cradle is currently and always has been a band that puts music over commercialism. What the heck is Bam Margera doing opening the behind the scenes footage?

Bottom Line:

This is a value for $20, but think of it as a Cradle of Filth movie and not a true concert recording or behind the scenes look at the band, it isnt. Gotta say, I like "Heavy, Left handed, & Candid" a good bit better. Anyway, long live the Filth.

What an incredible concert dvd ! I own near 300 concert dvds and few come close to this one ! Recorded during the last leg of the Euro tour in 2005, in front of a packed house at the last venue in Paris, this sets the standards for every other dvd, and then some. The performance is an incredibly relentless 90', Dani's voice is not in top form but hey, after a whole tour and considering he's not so young anymore...it rocks ! Pic is razor-sharp and camera work and editing are top notch. The sound, if low and in need of a very powerful amp, is mixed impeccably and needs no tonal correction of any sort, with the exception of maybe the cymbals. A superb rhythm section despite the fact that the bass cannot be heard most of the time -a normal ocurrence in this type of music- and guitars are surgically panned across the stereo image, each one blazing from a different speaker.

These guys invented the extreme gothic metal genre which mixes even parts of death- black-gothic to a great effect. This is so much better than their first dvd it has to be watched-heard to be believed. Extras are a bit lacking and the mockumentary may be crass but who cares when there's so much meat on the menu ?

DEMOLISHING !!!

awesome concert footage and plenty of great extras a must for fans of cradle of filth and black metal fans alike .

I think the DVD is great, a great COF DVD but for some reason I think they edited too much dani's voice and sometimes it seems kind of fake. Mostly is great ;p

About the extras .......... cool stuff, hot chicks and craziness. I didn't like the fact that Bam Ma...(whatever) appears on the DVD because for some reason gives to the COF band a MTV flavor, like too popular and commercial i don't know it's only my opinion...

OK!! it is a good DVD .. if you are a COF fan you'll like it, so buy it!!