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''Midian'' is the fourth studio album by English extreme metal band Cradle of Filth. It was released on November 14, 2000, through Music for Nations. The album marks the return of guitarist Paul Allender to the band, as well as the introduction of drummer Adrian Erlandsson (At the Gates, The Haunted) and keyboard player Martin Powell (My Dying Bride, Anathema). The album was reissued in 2012 by The End Records. ==Thematic inspiration== ''Midian'' is inspired by English author Clive Barker's novel ''Cabal'' and his subsequent film version ''Nightbreed''. Dani Filth explained to the magazine ''Empire'' in September 2012: We loved ''Cabal'', ''The Damnation Game'' and ''The Books of Blood'', and we liked that everything had "Clive Barker presents..." on it before people even knew who he was. That gave it an air of mystery: you should know who this is, but you don't. ''Midian'' kind of is and isn't a concept album: as a title, it just made perfect sense. The central song, "Tortured Soul Asylum", is about Midian, and the characters in the rest (the album ) made up a sort of collective from this mythical place where the monsters live. Doug Bradley, who played the role of Lylesberg in ''Nightbreed'' (but is better known as Pinhead from Barker's ''Hellraiser'' and its sequels), provides narration on some tracks. In the Bible, the "Midianites" are an Arab tribe descended from Abraham, and Midian itself is where Moses spent his forty-year exile from Egypt. The biblical Midianites take their name from Midian, a son of Abraham, and one of his concubines. Today, the former territory of Midian is found through small portions of western Saudi Arabia, southern Jordan, southern Israel and the Sinai. The people of Midian are also mentioned extensively in the Qur'an, where the name appears in Arabic as Madyan. The Midian of ''Cabal'' and ''Nightbreed'' is a hidden city offering shelter for monsters away from humanity. The song "Cthulhu Dawn" invokes the character from horror writer H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. The opening line of "Lord Abortion" ("Care for a little necrophilia?") is a quote from Terry Gilliam's film ''Brazil'' (voiced by Kim Greist in the film, but delivered here by Toni King, frontman Dani Filth's wife). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Midian (album)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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