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These are heady days for those of us who wear our devotion to metal like a badge of honour. The deafening beast of the dark depths has lived to roar and rampage again and the scene has never been in a happier or healthier state. But don't be deceived. Metal never really went away. In fact, its current fortitude stems entirely from the bands that never surrendered those brave, liquor-soaked men whose total disregard for the vagaries of fashion and finance kept them glued to the grindstone through metal's mainstream wilderness years. Now, as seems wholly fitting, the greatest of these are finally reaping their rewards and hitting new creative peaks as they surge unstoppably onwards and upwards. And, as it was in the beginning, so shall it be in 2008....
Just as the gravel-lined, turd-stained streets of urban England gave heavy metal to the world back in the late '60s, so that small country with the big voice continues to be the place where the world's finest dark metal band rest their weary, alcohol-ravaged heads after another sonic killing spree.
Throughout the '90s, Cradle of Filth - led by vocalist, lyricist and crypt-crawling master of ceremonies Dani Filth - beavered tirelessly away, producing a series of peerless extreme metal classics that drew from an endless, dizzying array of inspirations and influences while always maintaining that instantly recognisable heart of filthy darkness. The brutal and brief Vempire mini-album and the lustrous, lascivious Dusk & Her Embrace (both 1996) began to reveal the band's great sonic range. Later taking into account the slithering concept piece Cruelty & The Beast (1998) and the Clive Barker-inspired Midian (2000) - not to mention their excursions into the visual realm of film and promo - the Cradle Of Filth sound showed itself to be a many-headed creature. It was one that took delight in confounding both the purists and the critics who continually assailed the band's motives and creativity even as their fan base expanded and their status soared. With a line-up that seemed to be constantly changing - thanks, perhaps, to the cobweb-encrusted revolving door that rumours suggest marked the entrance to the band's rehearsal space during this period - the music was never allowed to stagnate fresh blood and its revitalising effects remained a permanent weapon in the boys' macabre arsenal...
And so to 2007, where Cradle Of Filth find themselves in the enviable position of being in a league and class of their own. Having long since outstripped the achievements of their one-time contemporaries, the band is now firmly entrenched in a rich vein of form. The current line-up of Dani Filth, guitarists Paul Allender and Charles Hedger, bassist Dave Pybus, Rosie Smith ..boards, female vocals Sarah Jezebel Deva and drummer Martin Skaroupka is the most solid and powerful in the band's career and Thornography is the resounding, conclusive proof. With songs as brutish, bombastic and diverse as "Libertina Grimm," "Tonight In Flames," "Cemetery & Sundown," "I Am The Thorn," "The Byronic Man" (featuring HIM's Ville Valo on guest vocals) and a deranged cover of Heaven 17's '80s pop gem "Temptation," the world's biggest and best extreme metal band have never sounded so exhilarating, so vital, so venomous.
Louder, harder, faster, heavier, darker, catchier - the unstoppable force that is Cradle Of Filth slithers menacingly forward, crushing the opposition and striking warped, blackened glee into the hearts of misanthropes and malevolents the world over.....
HELLO EVERYBODY!!! HAIL CRADLE OF FILTH!!! BLACK FUCKING METAL!!!! THINK YOUR A CRADLE FAN? BUY BAND MERCHANDISE FROM ME CHEAPER THAN EVERYWHERE ELSE!!! HURTING THE BAND?? NO WAY!!! I BUY ALL THERE STUFF (FULL PRICE) AND SELL IT TO PEOPLE AT A CHEAPER PRICE!!! HAIL DANI FILTH AND STAY FUCKING FILTHLY! IF ANYONE IS INTERESTED PLEASE MESSAGE ME VIA MYSPACE INFORMING ME ON THE ITEM YOU WISH TO BUY AND I WILL GIVE YOU A PRICE. EVERYTHING WILL BE SOLD VIA EBAY. I HAVE MANY PEOPLE IN THE PSAT WHOM HAVE PURCHASED MY SHIT. WANNA TALK TO THEM?? ASK ME THANK YOU!!!! BLACK IS MY HEART OF THE NEMISIS!!!!!!
I love to say thank you to Paul Allender... just the Video (peta2 free for ALL)for Supporting NO on Animal Cruelty I hate it and yes it is Disgusting Big Thanks Paul
I was wondering if you would PLEASE make a maternaty shirt that says something like "With the Filth in her womb" or a baby onsy that says "Darkness Incarnate"?? Just let me know how much.
me and my fiancee Cortney are having a big rock wedding at either Soundvent in Thomasville, NC or Somewhere Else Tavern in Greensborom NC and we would like to ask if you guys would be interested in playing for us at the Wedding and how much you would charge.
October 31, 2009
she is 19 and im 21, young couple trying to have a kick ass wedding and what better than CRADLE OF FILTH!!!!!!!!!
LOVE THE MUSIC HELL YEAHHHHH She wants Nymphetamine to be played as she walks down the aisle
i love u guys hopefully ill be able to go to one of ur guys concert & get pics with Dani & evry1 Dani is my favorite i member when i was 10 i had the biggest crush on Dani & i still do anyways i think u guys should have a concert in Champagne,IL at the ASSEMBLY HALL tht would be Fucking Kewl....tht would be a awesome concert anyways u guys keep rocking & never split up....... & hopefully ill go to a concert soon
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