History YMMV / CradleOfFilth

* FaceOfTheBand: Dani Filth.

* NightmareFuel: Their music can certainly qualify with their horror-themed lyrics, which, coupled with Dani's judicious use of CarefulWithThatAxe / ScreamsLikeALittleGirl, creates a rather unhinged sound to their music. [[NightmareRetardant On the other hand...]]

* NightmareFuel: Their music can certainly qualify with their horror-themed lyrics, which, coupled with Dani's judicious use of CarefulWithThatAxe/ScreamsLikeALittleGirl, creates a rather unhinged sound to their music. [[NightmareRetardant On the other hand...]]

* NightmareFuel: Their music can certainly qualify with their horror-themed lyrics, which, coupled with Dani's judicious use of CarefulWithThatAxe, creates a rather unhinged sound to their music. [[NightmareRetardant On the other hand...]]

* NightmareFuel: Their music can certainly qualify with their horror-themed lyrics, which, coupled with Dani's judicious use of CarefulWithThatAxe, creates a scarily beautiful yet unhinged sound. [[NightmareRetardant On the other hand...]]

* WinBackTheCrowd: While it's a matter of debate as to when their decline in quality was greatly accelerated, general consensus is that their post-''Midian'' output kicked off the start of a [[SeasonalRot slow decline in quality]] that grew much worse at some point, briefly got better with ''Godspeed on the Devil's Thunder'', and eventually reached its logical endpoint with ''The Manticore and Other Horrors'', or "Paul Allender Doesn't Want To Do This Any More: The Album". One massive lineup change later and the band released ''Hammer of the Witches'', which is universally held to be their best since ''Midian'' and quite possibly the best of their entire career.
* TheMovie: ''Film/CradleOfFear'', a horror anthology-type film, which wasn't very well received or even that well known outside of Cradle fans, starring the ''Midian'' era lineup.

* TheMovie: ''Cradle of Fear'', a horror anthology-type film, which wasn't very well received or even that well known outside of Cradle fans, starring the ''Midian'' era lineup.

* TheMovie: ''Cradle of Fear'' a horror anthology-type film, which wasn't very well received or even that well known outside of Cradle fans, starring the ''Midian'' era lineup.

* WinBackTheCrowd: While it's a matter of debate as to when their decline in quality was greatly accelerated, general consensus is that their post-''Midian'' output kicked off the start of a [[SeasonalRot slow decline in quality]] that grew much worse at some point, briefly got better with ''Godspeed on the Devil's Thunder'', and eventually reached its logical endpoint with ''The Manticore and Other Horrors'', or "Paul Allender Doesn't Want To Do This Any More: The Album". One massive lineup change later and the band released ''Hammer of the Witches'', which is universally held to be their best since ''Midian'' and quite possibly the best of their entire career.

* WinBackTheCrowd: While it's a matter of debate as to when their decline in quality was greatly accelerated, general consensus is that their post-''Midian'' output kicked off the start of a [[SeasonalRot slow decline in quality]] that grew much worse at some point and eventually reached its nadir with ''The Manticore and Other Horrors''. One massive lineup change later and the band released ''Hammer of the Witches'', which is universally held to be their best since ''Midian'' and quite possibly the best of their entire career.

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: And since they introduce a change to their sound with just about every new release, this happens a lot.

* FandomRivarly: With Carach Angren, a symphonic black metal from the Netherlands. The rivalry came out when Dani Filth released a new make up style that looked ''exactly'' like Carach Angren vocalist/guitarist Seregor. Fans and even ''Seregor himself'' were not amused.

%%* FaceOfTheBand: Dani Filth.

* FaceOfTheBand: Dani Filth.

* MagnumOpus: ''Dusk... and Her Embrace'', according to many fans.

* BrokenBase

* HateDumb: Contains a lot of Bandwagon Haters from the "true" black metal camp (also overlaps with Willfully Blind, because Cradle of Filth never really played black metal anyway).

** Particularly in his newer work in which he wears glittery face paint, making him look like, according to one Youtube commenter, [[{{Labyrinth}} the Goblin King]].