Across the album's unforgiving expanse, it harkens to ghosts of Cradle's past like 'Cruelty and the Beast' (1998) and the galloping thunder of recent entries like 'Hammer of the Witches' (2015). Dani Filth's recognizable scream stands mightily alongside twin guitar attacks, symphonic flourishes, and explosive rhythm section. 'The Screaming of the Valkyries' beckons the brave into a new era of Cradle of Filth, as a bloody love letter to Cradle's longtime faithful and an enticing entryway for fresh lambs to the slaughter.