By the time they released their sixth studio album, 2004’s Nymphetamine, Cradle Of Filth were loved and loathed in equal measure. Having partially shed their black metal skins, they’d embraced a more grandiose and symphonic style, dragging extreme metal as close to the mainstream as it could get at that point. They’d even – gasp! – signed to a major label for preceding album Damnation And A Day, which came out on Sony in 2003.
Nymphetamine the record featured two versions of its title track. Nymphetamine (Overdose) was a multi-part, nine-minute epic sitting as the centrepiece of the record. But it was a shortened version, dubbed Nymphetamine (Fix), that was sent forth as a single, taking on its own life, propelling the band to even greater levels of infamy and landing them their biggest-selling album to this day. It even got nominated for a Grammy.
