''Midnight in the Labyrinth'' is an orchestral compilation album by English

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band

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(although "orchestrations" are credited to keyboard player Mark Newby-Robson and no orchestra or string-section is listed in the album's personnel). The re-recorded songs selected are from the band's first four releases. The title comes from the lyrics of "Mistress from the Sucking Pit", a bonus track on some editions of '' Darkly, Darkly, Venus Aversa''. The album was released to coincide with

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on 21 April in participating countries. It was released worldwide on 4 May. Disc One features narration by

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, plus additional vocals from Sarah Jezebel Deva. Disc Two contains the same recordings minus the vocals. The first disc also includes "Goetia (Invoking the Unclean)", a thirteen-minute "aural séance", recycling the titles of Cradle's abandoned and wiped first album, and first demo. A demo of the orchestral version of "Summer Dying Fast" appeared as a teaser on the EP '' Evermore Darkly'', and the narrated version of "A Gothic Romance (Red Roses for the Devil's Whore)" was released online, preceding the album on 4 April.

Production and recording

According to vocalist

, the album would "reinvent" tracks from the band's first four albums and include "full soundtrack-quality stuff... with choirs, strings and some narration". Filth wrote in an online update: Guitarist Paul Allender stated in an interview: Sarah Jezebel Deva announced via her Facebook page that she would be re-joining Cradle of Filth for this release:

Track listing

Personnel

* Mark Newby-Robson – orchestration *

– male narration * Sarah Jezebel Deva – female narration, additional vocals * Kit Woolven – mixer

References

External links

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