Victorian England Under Martian Rule

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Victorian England Under Martian Rule is a fictional April Fool's joke album by British band Cradle of Filth announced in 2000.[1] The band went as far as to include information about it in Terrorizer Magazine, and Dani Filth even came up with artwork and a track listing. It was purportedly conceived as a double-album based on H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds and on dinosaurs.

Dani Filth also explained in interviews that the original Cradle of Filth line-up (Filth, Paul Allender, Darren Gardner, and Jon Richard) would collaborate on one of the songs on the album. Essentially however, Victorian England Under Martian Rule was the working title for the then-unnanounced album Midian. It was also supposed to feature guests such as Rob Halford, Diamanda Galas, King Diamond and Horgh.

Surprisingly, a large proportion of Cradle's fanbase fell for the joke.^{[citation needed]}

1 Track listing
- 1.1 Disc 1
- 1.2 Disc 2
2 Trivia
3 Credits

[edit] Track listing

[edit] Disc 1

"Preternatural Terror (Hell on Earth)"
"Going Insanus"
"Saturn's Ring"
"Ave Luna"
"Proud Cutty Sark (Cutting Through Waves as Though They Were Virgin Flesh)"
"Go Go Gothic Gatling Gun!"
"Triumph of British Steel"

[edit] Disc 2

(Silence)
"Neck Romancer"
"Reflections of a Wilting Poet's Rose"
"Sinderella"
"Hansel & Metal"
"Weeping on Statues"
"Triarchy of Triassic Terror: Funereal Fossil Fantasie"
"Shriek of the Pterodactyl"
"Hill of the Diplodoci"
"Where the Wild Things Are"

[edit] Trivia

The title of this joke album was alluded to in the From the Cradle to Enslave remix found on the second disc of Live Bait for the Dead, titled "From the Cradle to Enslave (Under Martian Rule Mix)".

[edit] Credits

Dani Filth - Vocals
Paul Allender - Guitar
Robin Eaglestone - Bass
Martin Powell - Keyboards
Gian Pyres - Guitar
Adrian Erlandsson - Drums

Cradle of Filth
Dani Filth \| Paul Allender \| Dave Pybus \| Charles Hedger \| Sarah Jezebel Deva \| Martin Škaroupka \| Rosie Smith
Discography
Albums and EPs: The Principle of Evil Made Flesh (1994) \| V Empire (or Dark Faerytales in Phallustein) (1996) \| Dusk and Her Embrace (1997) \| Cruelty and the Beast (1998) \| From the Cradle to Enslave (1999) \| Midian (2000) \| Bitter Suites to Succubi (2001) \| Lovecraft and Witch Hearts (2002) \| Live Bait for the Dead (2002) \| Damnation and a Day (2003) \| Nymphetamine (2004) \| Thornography (2006)
Demos: A Pungent And Sexual Miasma (1992) \| Invoking the Unclean (1992) \| Orgiastic Pleasures (1992) \| The Black Goddess Rises (1992) \| Goetia (1992) \| Total Fucking Darkness (1993)
DVDs: PanDaemonAeon (1999) \| Heavy, Left-Handed and Candid (2002) \| Babalon AD (So Glad For The Madness) (2003) \| Mannequin (2003) \| Peace Through Superior Firepower (2005)
Singles: Temptation (2006)
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