August 27th at 12:01 AM EST you will have the chance to download "Tragic Kingdom", the first dastardly track off of 'Godspeed On The Devil's Thunder', for 24 hours. All you have to do is click HERE, enter in your information, and you will be able to download "Tragic Kingdom" during that time span.
'Godspeed on the Devil's Thunder' desecrates shelves come 28.10.2008
Revolver Magazine is providing you with the chance to write in your questions for the baddest and blackest of them all, Mr. Dani Filth, for their GOING POSTAL feature.
Send your letters to letters@Revolvermag.com with the subject line DANI FILTH and ask Dani about Cradle of Filth's new album, Godspeed on the Devil's Thunder, out October 28th.
Ta-da! Here I am again, a perennial bantam phantom returning to haunt your browser once more with all that is current in the Cradle camp. And things are moving rather swiftly along, I can assure you of that.
Album-wise everything is close to completion, with an imminent date already scheduled for the first free album download and the mail-out watermarked copies for Journalists and their Librarian ilk. The artwork is nearing finishing by the master-fabulist David Ho (and amazing it is too, fully complementing the Gilles De Rais concept that runs like blood throughout the lyrics and music. Believe me this is pure and utter theatre!) and by next Tuesday everything will be laid out and finalised, awaiting the printing press and it's insatiable grinning maw.
We are most definitely set for Hallowe'en!
A fun day out was had by all when we undertook a lengthy photo-shoot at Kentwell Hall in Suffolk (in fact, not too far from where I used to live in Hadleigh), set against a plush backdrop of landscaped gardens and Tudor interiors. The day was hot and agitated from time to time by marauding bees and an irksome Peacock which insisted on pecking at it's reflection in our make-up lady's car. This resulted in the rarely seen sight of our manager Fay waylaying her temper and chasing off the persistent bird with a large, knobbly stick. On several occasions.
The actual shoot with Thornography photographer Daragh McDonagh was great despite the heat and we managed loads of set-ups with fantastic results, much to the bemusement of visitors to this vast ancestral home, who were no doubt wondering just what on earth these leather-clad, corpse-like waifs were doing, intruding on their idyllic country afternoon strolls.
On the festival front, the pair thus far have both been exceptional, Latvia and Finland (the 'Rock Cock' festival in Kuopio being appropriately titled for us) receiving humungous support from fiends and fans alike; both shows fluent without hitch, despite the Latvian one finding the band confined to a hot tent on a midge-infested lake for the best part of a day (we didn't play until midnight) and me being asked to leave the flight home after a 'friendly' altercation with another passenger whilst in transit. I still protest my innocence to this day, but my track record seems to have pulled the boy-cries-wolf granny blanket down over everybody's opinion on the matter, but hey, I got home, albeit a bit later than expected and at a different airport!
Then we almost didn't make the Finnish one after our connecting flight was suddenly cancelled (the pilot hadn't shown up by way of an explanation), but luckily we managed to snag another early on the day of the show. I wouldn't of missed the tumultuous fireworks that heralded the end of our concert for the world. They were staggering -and so were we- as we couldn't leave the backstage area until they had all shot heavenward over the crowd.
Now we are really looking forward to the next four shows, especially Bulgaria, as it is the first time COF have graced it's Balkan shores and of course, the forthcoming European tour with Gorgoroth, Moonspell and Septic Flesh which creeps ever the more closer as the Summer drags on. And speaking of tours, the finished routing for the US leg should be with us from our Stateside booking agents, so keep your eyes peeled for an update on that and for the second support slot confirmation really, really soon. Again, that's going to be a killer tour!
'The Gospel Of Filth' is still with the publishers, I believe at the time of press they were actually working on Chapter 5, so again, expect some updates shortly, as well as some chapter previews (here first, naturally) leading up to the planned limited extra special edition release on Hallowe'en.
So there we have it fellow squibs. Until next time we meet 'neath the darksome spread of the interweb...
Mirror, mirror, on the wall. Who's the blackest of them all? Why, Cradle of Filth, of course. England's most notorious and nefarious metal band are gearing up to release their darkest, most dastardly album of all, titled Godspeed on the Devil's Thunder, for Roadrunner Records on October 28. The album, which will have a special edition with an extra disc and bonus material, arrives just in time for Hallowe'en, a holiday that fits Cradle of Filth's blackened, ghostly aesthetic.
The album is conceptual and is based on the well-documented, true-life fall from grace of a shadowy historical figure named Gilles de Rais, a wealthy French nobleman who was one of Joan of Arc's brothers-in-arms. He was best known, however, as a prolific serial killer who mixed prayers with his nightly murders as well as an aspiring alchemist. He was accused of a panoply of crimes, among them heresy, demonology and kidnapping. There's even an extreme fringe sect of historians who question de Rais' true status, with some convinced he was framed.
Regardless of viewpoint, leave it to Cradle of Filth to dissect de Rais' biography, exploring subversive, inflammatory historical subject matter in its lyrics, taking an unjaundiced look at a controversial figure in European history, set to epic black metal music. The band profiled Hungarian countess Elizabeth Bathory, who attempted to preserve her youth by bathing in the blood of virgins, in the past and now moves forward by framing their latest album around the story of de Rais.
Cradle of Filth's vocalist Dani Filth elaborated on the album's concept, saying, "By far this is our most extreme, dramatic and deeply disturbing album to date. The legend of Gilles de Rais has been given fresh, vampyrical life in this conceptual meisterwerk, swathed in pitch-black magic and a viciousness unsurpassed in the annals of Cradle history. Screw what our detractors say, everyone who has heard this album has bruised their jaws on the pentagram-bejewelled floor."
The tracklisting for Godspeed on the Devil's Thunder is as follows:
In Grandeur And Frankincense Devilment Stirs Shat Out Of Hell The Death Of Love The 13th Caesar Tiffauges Tragic Kingdom Sweetest Maleficia Honey And Sulphur.Midnight Shadows Crawl To Darken Counsel With Life 10.Darkness Incarnate Ten Leagues Beneath Contempt Godspeed On The Devil's Thunder Corpseflower
Cradle of Filth follows up 2006's Thornography with a bigger, faster and louder conceptual new album. The band retains their hard-earned reputation as the best of the blackest with Godspeed on the Devil's Thunder.
New Headbanger’s Blog Interview with Dani.
Category: Music
Headbanger's Blog recently talked with CRADLE OF FILTH frontman Dani Filth about the sound of the British extreme metal band's forthcoming album. The as-yet-untitled CD is a concept record about a legendary serial killer from the 15th Century, Gilles De Rais, a French nobleman who fought alongside Joan of Arc and accumulated great wealth before becoming a satanist, sexual deviant and a murderer. Dani also spoke about the song he wrote for Dario Argento's new horror film "Mother of Tears", the horror-themed video he wants to do for the new record and the long-awaited history book he wrote with Gavin Baddeley, "Gospel of Filth: A Bible of Decadence and Darkness", which he hopes will be out by Halloween — around the time the new record drops.
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