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color: inherit; background-color: lightsteelblue; font-size: 125%;">Hammer of the Witches</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Hammer_of_witches.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/ea/Hammer_of_witches.jpg/220px-Hammer_of_witches.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ea/Hammer_of_witches.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="316" data-file-height="316" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header description" style="color: #202122;background-color: lightsteelblue"><a href="/wiki/Album" title="Album">Studio album</a> by <div class="contributor" style="display:inline"><a href="/wiki/Cradle_of_Filth" title="Cradle of Filth">Cradle of Filth</a></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Released</th><td class="infobox-data published">10 July 2015</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Recorded</th><td class="infobox-data plainlist">November 2014 – May 2015<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Studio</th><td class="infobox-data plainlist">Grindstone Studios (<a href="/wiki/Suffolk,_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Suffolk, England">Suffolk, England</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Music_genre" title="Music genre">Genre</a></th><td class="infobox-data category hlist"><a href="/wiki/Extreme_metal" title="Extreme metal">Extreme metal</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Length</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="duration"><span class="min">56</span>:<span class="s">11</span></span> <br /> 68:47 (Deluxe edition)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Record_label" title="Record label">Label</a></th><td class="infobox-data hlist"><a href="/wiki/Nuclear_Blast" title="Nuclear Blast">Nuclear Blast</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Record_producer" title="Record producer">Producer</a></th><td class="infobox-data hlist">Scott Atkins</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header description" style="color: #202122;background-color: lightsteelblue"><a href="/wiki/Cradle_of_Filth" title="Cradle of Filth">Cradle of Filth</a> chronology</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"> <table style="color:inherit; background: transparent; width: 100%; min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; display: inline-table;"> <tbody><tr style="line-height: 1.4em;"> <td style="width: 33%; text-align: center; vertical-align: top; padding: .2em .1em .2em 0"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Manticore_and_Other_Horrors" title="The Manticore and Other Horrors">The Manticore and Other Horrors</a></i><br />(2012) </td> <td style="width: 33%; text-align: center; vertical-align: top; padding: .2em .1em"><i><b>Hammer of the Witches</b></i><br />(2015) </td> <td style="width: 33%; text-align: center; vertical-align: top; padding: .2em 0 .2em .1em"><i><a href="/wiki/Cryptoriana_%E2%80%93_The_Seductiveness_of_Decay" title="Cryptoriana – The Seductiveness of Decay">Cryptoriana – The Seductiveness of Decay</a></i><br />(2017) </td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background: lightsteelblue"><a href="/wiki/Single_(music)" title="Single (music)">Singles</a> from <i> Hammer of the Witches </i></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><div style="text-align:left"> <ol><li><span class="item"><span class="fn">"Right Wing of the Garden Triptych"</span><br />Released: 13 May 2015</span></li> <li><span class="item"><span class="fn">"Blackest Magick in Practice"</span><br />Released: 4 December 2015</span></li></ol> </div></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><i><b>Hammer of the Witches</b></i> is the eleventh studio album by English <a href="/wiki/Extreme_metal" title="Extreme metal">extreme metal</a> band <a href="/wiki/Cradle_of_Filth" title="Cradle of Filth">Cradle of Filth</a>. It was released on 10 July 2015 and is their first release under record label <a href="/wiki/Nuclear_Blast" title="Nuclear Blast">Nuclear Blast</a>. <i>Hammer of the Witches</i> features the band's new line-up following the departure of <a href="/wiki/Paul_Allender" title="Paul Allender">Paul Allender</a> and <a href="/wiki/James_McIlroy_(musician)" title="James McIlroy (musician)">James McIlroy</a>, which includes new guitarists Marek 'Ashok' Šmerda and Richard Shaw and new keyboardist and female vocalist Lindsay Schoolcraft. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Background">Background</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hammer_of_the_Witches&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Background"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>Hammer of the Witches</i> is the first Cradle of Filth album since 1998's <i><a href="/wiki/Cruelty_and_the_Beast" title="Cruelty and the Beast">Cruelty and the Beast</a></i> to not feature work from longtime guitarist <a href="/wiki/Paul_Allender" title="Paul Allender">Paul Allender</a>. Work on the album began in early 2014, with frontman Dani emphasizing that the band planned on taking their time with it.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In an interview in 2016, Lindsay Schoolcraft stated that she was pleased with the fan-response and that the band had actually finished work on the album quicker than they had expected to.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Cover_art">Cover art</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hammer_of_the_Witches&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Cover art"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Vocalist Dani Filth stated: "The artwork for <i>Hammer of the Witches</i> was created by Latvian artist <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Berzinsh" title="Arthur Berzinsh">Arthur Berzinsh</a> and is a lavish walk-through of the lyricism, drawing on rich <a href="/wiki/Renaissance" title="Renaissance">renaissance</a> themes and displaying them in beautiful-yet-unsettling scenarios. Half of the detailed pieces are totally original for the release, others are Berzinsh classics cunningly tailored to the themes of the album, which are themes rife with heady witchcraft, be it persecution, retribution or unfettered spiritual liberation. The female form is rampant throughout the artwork, unashamedly displayed in its classical rendition of beauty... and horror."<sup id="cite_ref-blabbermouth1_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-blabbermouth1-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Release">Release</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hammer_of_the_Witches&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Release"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The first single and video for the track "Right Wing of the Garden Triptych" was released on 14 May 2015.<sup id="cite_ref-blabbermouth1_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-blabbermouth1-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>Hammer of the Witches</i> was released on 10 July. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Reception">Reception</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hammer_of_the_Witches&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Reception"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable floatright" style="width:24.2em;font-size:88%;text-align:center;margin:0.5em 0 0.5em 1em;padding:0;border-spacing:0"><caption style="font-size:115%">Professional ratings</caption><tbody><tr><th scope="col" colspan="2" style="text-align:center;color:#202122;background:#d1dbdf;font-size:100%">Aggregate scores</th></tr><tr><th scope="col">Source</th><th scope="col">Rating</th></tr><tr><td style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle"><a href="/wiki/Metacritic" title="Metacritic">Metacritic</a></td><td style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle">75/100<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="col" colspan="2" style="text-align:center;color:#202122;background:#d1dbdf;font-size:100%">Review scores</th></tr><tr><th scope="col">Source</th><th scope="col">Rating</th></tr><tr><td style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle"><a href="/wiki/AllMusic" title="AllMusic">AllMusic</a></td><td style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle"><span role="img" style="white-space:nowrap" title="3.5/5 stars"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="3.5/5 stars"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/11px-Star_full.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" 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class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><i>Hammer of the Witches</i> has received a favourable response from critics, who appreciated its change in direction. It has also received a more positive fan response than previous releases in recent years such as <i><a href="/wiki/The_Manticore_and_Other_Horrors" title="The Manticore and Other Horrors">The Manticore and Other Horrors</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Darkly,_Darkly,_Venus_Aversa" title="Darkly, Darkly, Venus Aversa">Darkly, Darkly, Venus Aversa</a></i>, with many praising it as the band's best album since <i><a href="/wiki/Cruelty_and_the_Beast" title="Cruelty and the Beast">Cruelty and the Beast</a></i> (1998).<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a></i> called it "both a joyous nod towards past glories and a significant creative rebirth" and wrote "these are the most vital and incisive songs Dani Filth has conjured from the dark ether in a long time".<sup id="cite_ref-The_Guardian_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Guardian-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/AllMusic" title="AllMusic">AllMusic</a> wrote "on their 11th studio album, this unholy horde, forever wrapped in corpse paint, leather, and spikes, look back more than they do forward. And that proves a good thing [...] <i>Hammer of the Witches</i> doesn't reach the heights of <i><a href="/wiki/Dusk_and_Her_Embrace" title="Dusk and Her Embrace">Dusk of Her Embrace</a></i>  [<i><a href="/wiki/Sic" title="Sic">sic</a></i>], but it does offer proof that there is plenty of fire and creativity left in Cradle of Filth."<sup id="cite_ref-AllMusic_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AllMusic-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Track_listing">Track listing</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hammer_of_the_Witches&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Track listing"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236635009">.mw-parser-output .tracklist{border-spacing:0}.mw-parser-output .tracklist tr{background-color:var(--background-color-base,#fff)}.mw-parser-output .tracklist tr:nth-child(2n-1){background-color:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa)}.mw-parser-output .tracklist caption{text-align:left;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .tracklist td,.mw-parser-output .tracklist th[scope="row"]{vertical-align:top}.mw-parser-output .tracklist th[scope="col"]{text-align:left;background-color:var(--background-color-neutral,#eaecf0)}.mw-parser-output .tracklist th.tracklist-length-header,.mw-parser-output .tracklist th.tracklist-number-header,.mw-parser-output .tracklist th[scope="row"],.mw-parser-output .tracklist-length,.mw-parser-output .tracklist-total-length td{padding-right:10px;text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .tracklist th[scope="row"]{font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .tracklist-number-header{width:2em;padding-left:10px}.mw-parser-output .tracklist-length-header{width:4em}.mw-parser-output .tracklist tr.tracklist-total-length{background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .tracklist .tracklist-total-length th{padding:0;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .tracklist-total-length th>span{float:right;padding:0 10px;background-color:var(--background-color-neutral,#eaecf0)}.mw-parser-output .tracklist-total-length td{background-color:var(--background-color-neutral,#eaecf0);font-weight:bold;padding:0 10px 0 0}</style><div class="track-listing"><p>All lyrics are written by <a href="/wiki/Dani_Filth" title="Dani Filth">Dani Filth</a>; all music is composed by <a href="/wiki/Cradle_of_Filth" title="Cradle of Filth">Cradle of Filth</a> (Dani Filth, <a href="/wiki/Martin_%C5%A0karoupka" class="mw-redirect" title="Martin Škaroupka">Martin Škaroupka</a>, Daniel Firth, Lindsay Schoolcraft, Richard Shaw, Marek 'Ashok' Šmerda)</p><table class="tracklist"><tbody><tr><th class="tracklist-number-header" scope="col"><abbr title="Number">No.</abbr></th><th scope="col" style="width:100%">Title</th><th class="tracklist-length-header" scope="col">Length</th></tr><tr><th id="track1" scope="row">1.</th><td>"Walpurgis Eve"</td><td class="tracklist-length">1:29</td></tr><tr><th id="track2" scope="row">2.</th><td>"Yours Immortally..."</td><td class="tracklist-length">6:01</td></tr><tr><th id="track3" scope="row">3.</th><td>"Enshrined in Crematoria"</td><td class="tracklist-length">5:46</td></tr><tr><th id="track4" scope="row">4.</th><td>"Deflowering the Maidenhead, Displeasuring the Goddess"</td><td class="tracklist-length">6:56</td></tr><tr><th id="track5" scope="row">5.</th><td>"Blackest Magick in Practice"</td><td class="tracklist-length">6:50</td></tr><tr><th id="track6" scope="row">6.</th><td>"The Monstrous Sabbat (Summoning the Coven)"</td><td class="tracklist-length">1:51</td></tr><tr><th id="track7" scope="row">7.</th><td>"Hammer of the Witches"</td><td class="tracklist-length">6:29</td></tr><tr><th id="track8" scope="row">8.</th><td>"Right Wing of the Garden Triptych"</td><td class="tracklist-length">5:54</td></tr><tr><th id="track9" scope="row">9.</th><td>"The Vampyre at My Side"</td><td class="tracklist-length">5:45</td></tr><tr><th id="track10" scope="row">10.</th><td>"Onward Christian Soldiers"</td><td class="tracklist-length">6:59</td></tr><tr><th id="track11" scope="row">11.</th><td>"Blooding the Hounds of Hell"</td><td class="tracklist-length">2:10</td></tr><tr class="tracklist-total-length"><th colspan="2" scope="row"><span>Total length:</span></th><td>56:11</td></tr></tbody></table></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236635009"><div class="track-listing"><table class="tracklist"><caption>Deluxe edition</caption><tbody><tr><th class="tracklist-number-header" scope="col"><abbr title="Number">No.</abbr></th><th scope="col" style="width:100%">Title</th><th class="tracklist-length-header" scope="col">Length</th></tr><tr><th id="track12" scope="row">12.</th><td>"King of the Woods"</td><td class="tracklist-length">6:17</td></tr><tr><th id="track13" scope="row">13.</th><td>"Misericord"</td><td class="tracklist-length">6:19</td></tr><tr class="tracklist-total-length"><th colspan="2" scope="row"><span>Total length:</span></th><td>68:47</td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personnel">Personnel</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hammer_of_the_Witches&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Personnel"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Credits for <i>Hammer of the Witches</i> adapted from liner notes.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><b>Cradle of Filth</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dani_Filth" title="Dani Filth">Dani Filth</a> – lead vocals, lyrics</li> <li>Richard Shaw – guitars</li> <li>Marek 'Ashok' Šmerda – guitars</li> <li>Daniel Firth – bass</li> <li>Lindsay Schoolcraft – female vocals, harp</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Martin_Marthus_%C5%A0karoupka" class="mw-redirect" title="Martin Marthus Škaroupka">Martin 'Marthus' Škaroupka</a> – drums, keyboards, orchestrations, score, arrangements</li></ul> <p><b>Additional musicians</b> </p> <ul><li>Alexey Aslamas – violin</li> <li>Dalibor Strunc – cimbalom</li></ul> <p><b>Production</b> </p> <ul><li>Scott Atkins – production, engineering, mixing, mastering</li> <li>Toni Davey – design</li> <li>Artūrs Bērziņš – cover art, artwork</li> <li>Miloš Makovský – conductor</li> <li>Rob Kimura – layout</li> <li>Sam Scott-Hunter – photography</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Charts">Charts</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hammer_of_the_Witches&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Charts"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center"> <tbody><tr> <th>Chart (2015) </th> <th>Peak<br />position </th></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Australian Albums (<a href="/wiki/ARIA_Charts" title="ARIA Charts">ARIA</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-ac_Australia_Cradle_of_Filth_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ac_Australia_Cradle_of_Filth-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th> <td align="center">28 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Austrian Albums (<a href="/wiki/%C3%963_Austria_Top_40" title="Ö3 Austria Top 40">Ö3 Austria</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-ac_Austria_Cradle_of_Filth_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ac_Austria_Cradle_of_Filth-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th> <td align="center">57 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Czech Albums (<a href="/wiki/International_Federation_of_the_Phonographic_Industry" title="International Federation of the Phonographic Industry">ČNS IFPI</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-ac_Czech_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ac_Czech_-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th> <td align="center">5 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Belgian Albums (<a href="/wiki/Ultratop" title="Ultratop">Ultratop</a> Flanders)<sup id="cite_ref-ac_Flanders_Cradle_of_Filth_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ac_Flanders_Cradle_of_Filth-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th> <td align="center">28 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Belgian Albums (<a href="/wiki/Ultratop" title="Ultratop">Ultratop</a> Wallonia)<sup id="cite_ref-ac_Wallonia_Cradle_of_Filth_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ac_Wallonia_Cradle_of_Filth-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th> <td align="center">31 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Dutch Albums (<a href="/wiki/Dutch_Album_Top_100" title="Dutch Album Top 100">Album Top 100</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-ac_Netherlands_Cradle_of_Filth_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ac_Netherlands_Cradle_of_Filth-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th> <td align="center">38 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Finnish Albums (<a href="/wiki/The_Official_Finnish_Charts" class="mw-redirect" title="The Official Finnish Charts">Suomen virallinen lista</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-ac_Finland_Cradle_of_Filth_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ac_Finland_Cradle_of_Filth-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th> <td align="center">5 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Hungarian Albums (<a href="/wiki/Association_of_Hungarian_Record_Companies" title="Association of Hungarian Record Companies">MAHASZ</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-ac_Hungary_Cradle_of_Filth_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ac_Hungary_Cradle_of_Filth-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th> <td align="center">21 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Italian Albums (<a href="/wiki/Federazione_Industria_Musicale_Italiana" title="Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana">FIMI</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-ac_Italy_Cradle_of_Filth_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ac_Italy_Cradle_of_Filth-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th> <td align="center">68 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Swiss Albums (<a href="/wiki/Swiss_Hitparade" title="Swiss Hitparade">Schweizer Hitparade</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-ac_Switzerland_Cradle_of_Filth_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ac_Switzerland_Cradle_of_Filth-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th> <td align="center">46 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/UK_Albums_Chart" title="UK Albums Chart">UK Albums</a> (<a href="/wiki/Official_Charts_Company" title="Official Charts Company">OCC</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-ac_UK_Cradle_of_Filth_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ac_UK_Cradle_of_Filth-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th> <td align="center">44 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">US <a href="/wiki/Billboard_200" title="Billboard 200"><i>Billboard</i> 200</a><sup id="cite_ref-ac_Billboard200_Cradle_of_Filth_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ac_Billboard200_Cradle_of_Filth-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th> <td align="center">196 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">US <a href="/wiki/Top_Album_Sales" title="Top Album Sales">Top Album Sales</a> (<a href="/wiki/Billboard_(magazine)" title="Billboard (magazine)"><i>Billboard</i></a>)<sup id="cite_ref-ac_BillboardAlbumSales_Cradle_of_Filth_29-0" 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