EXCLUSIVE:DANI FILTH'S BATTLE OF THE BANDS 26th September 2017
Cradle Of Filth's brand new album, 'Cryptoriana - The Seductiveness Of Decay', was released last Friday, 22nd September 2017, and here's frontman Dani Filth in conversation about classic Metal acts.
In this special Battle Of The Bands format, Dani talks about what turns him on about classic Metal bands including Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Danzig, Bathory and more.
Cradle Of Filth recently released the official lyric video for the venomous new song 'Achingly Beautiful', taken from 'Cryptoriana - The Seductiveness Of Decay'.
Dani tells us:
"Influenced by the stories of EF Benson, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, H Rider Haggard, Oscar Wilde, Arthur Machen and Algernon Blackwood to shame but a few, this song concerns itself with a spectral guest at a great masked ball who, deeply embedded in his cruel libertine nature, attends merely for merciless, seductive sport, but instead discovers the woman of his dreams and both bewitching the other, finds in her his dark, immortal equal.
"I love this song as it has a very old skool Cradle vibe for me, both lyrically and musically, and reeking hideously of the Vampiric, the dropdown section in the middle is pure 'A Gothic Romance'."
Cradle Of Filth have also released two more videos from the new album, 'You Will Know The Lion By His Claw' and 'Heartbreak And Seance', as well as four trailers for 'Cryptoriana - The Seductiveness Of Decay' and here they all are, for your enjoyment:
'Cryptoriana - The Seductiveness Of Decay' is available for order right here.
Artūrs Bērziņš is the mastermind behind the new record's artwork, photography and videography – best known for his defiant neo-symbolism raster graphics and oil paintings; postmodern interpretations of classic myths. He has been proclaimed as a "sacred monster of Latvian postmodernism".
Tour dates, with special guests Savage Messiah: 30th October: Belfast - Limelight 31st October: Dublin - Academy (Halloween Show) 2nd November: Manchester - Academy 2 3rd November: Glasgow - Garage 4th November: Birmingham - O2 Institute 2 5th November: Church - Leeds 7th November: Oxford - O2 Academy 8th November: Southampton - Engine Rooms 9th November: Norwich - Waterfront 10th November: London - Electric Ballroom 11th November: Bristol – Bierkeller