Cradle Of Filth: Honey And Sulphur Demo Stream…Why?

When it comes to demos, I could care less most of the time. Why would a band want to release demos, besides to add some extra tracks to a “Special Edition”? Tracks that you’ll never really listen to much because they are substandard. What used to be good about demos is that they were pretty close to the original song. They may have been rough recordings, but in the end they were just less tweaked songs. These days the songs in pre-production are usually extremely rough and by the time they get all dissected, injected and molested with Pro-Tools they sound nothing like the demo. Sometimes they don’t sound far from the original and don’t sound like your typical demo. Sometimes the preproduction demo is the song and only a few things are tweaked here and there. It’s a different case than what it used to be. In any case a demo is used to present the label and/or producer with your ideas and says, “This is what we have. What can we do with it?”. I had a point somewhere in here, but I’ve completely lost it.

Some bands are all, “Let’s record this now and we’ll try to figure out later how the hell we’re going to play it live.”. Some bands record with live shows in mind and not relying so much on their back catalogue. The fact is that yes, you should play a lot of new songs from your album as soon as you start touring in support of it. Play the old ones too, but you’re on tour to sell tickets, merch and the new record. Some may not care to hear the new songs right off the line, but they’ll come around.

With all that said and not having much to do with the rest of this post, Cradle Of Filth has released a demo track from their last release Godspeed On The Devil’s Thunder. The demo is for the track Honey And Sulphur. It’s not bad if you like this band and want to hear a song that sounds similar to the one on the album. The reason the title says “Why?” is because they release the album and a special edition, so I really don;t see the point. Perhaps record sales are down and they needed some news to keep them in the stream of things and get people’s attention again. I really don’t know.

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