Babalon A.D. (So Glad for the Madness)

Infobox music DVD
Name = Babalon AD (So Glad for the Madness)
Type = DVD
Artist = Cradle of Filth


Released = 2003

Last DVD = "Heavy Left Handed And Candid" (2002)
This DVD = "Babalon AD (So Glad for the Madness)" (2003)
Next DVD = "Mannequin" (2003)

"Babalon AD (So Glad For The Madness)" is a DVD by Cradle of Filth.

The video is an homage to Pier Paulo Pasolini's notorious final film "Salò". Babalon is not a mis-spelling of Babylon, but refers to the "Scarlet Woman", "Great Mother" or "Mother of Abominations" from Aleister Crowley's mystical system ("Mother of Abominations" is also the name of track 13 on Cradle's "Nymphetamine" album).

Dolby Digital 2.0
2003 Sony Music UK / Abracadaver

Music video

The video begins with a closeup of Dani Filth's face hidden in the shadows. The camera cuts to a young female maid in a restroom who notices a digital camcorder, sits down in a toilet stall and looks at the camera for any footage present. The video on the camcorder shows the Cradle of Filth band members in something like an empty dance hall, sharply dressed, systematically abusing and humiliating half a dozen young men and women, while Dani directs proceedings with a megaphone. Near the video's end, Dani is seen looking at himself in an antique mirror, which he then spins around and points at the camera operator, revealing that the maid herself was recording the band's activities. In the restroom, the maid looks horrified. We then cut back to the torture room, now vacant and poorly-lit, to find the maid alone with the libertine tormentors, and forced into a chair as Dani takes the camera and another band member takes a director's clapperboard labelled "Pandora's Box." The young lady weeps as she is taunted, yelled at, and ridiculed. Back in the bathroom, the footage on the digital camcorder cuts off and the maid looks up with terror etched on her face. The video ends with a static-filled picture.

Content

# Babalon AD (So Glad For The Madness) Unedited Music Video
# Serpent Tongue (2 minute visual feast)
# Freakshow Gallery
# Merchandise Details
# Band Biography