British Extreme Metallers Cradle of Filth have relased The Official Music Video for The Song “Demagoguery”. The track is featured on the band’s 14th Studio Album, “The Screaming of the Valkyries”WHICH ARRIVED ON MARCH 21 VIA Napalm Records,
“Demagoguery” director Shaun Hodson Says About the Video’s Concept: “Subject Eleven, to Puppet Puppet, Is Controlled by The Media, Government and Television, Her Every Move Dictated by their being against strings. Clear: She is part of A Dark Orchestration Guiding the World Toward the Rise of the Antichrist. “
Cradle of Filth Reigns supreme as One of the Most Revered, Formative and Notorious Names in Music – From The Depts of the Extreme Metal Underground To The Peaks of Mainstream Pop Culture Itself – And Is Responsible For Breaking Ground For Many of Today’s Top Metal Artists With Their Trade Mixture of Blackened Heaviness, Macabre Theatricality and Scintillating Gothic Style.
ON “The Screaming of the Valkyries”Frontman Dani Filth‘s collectible scream and identifiable Growl Stand Mightly Alongsis Twin Guitar Attacks, Symphonic Flourishes and Explosive Rhythm Section, implemented by Drummer Martin “Marthus” SkaroupkaBassist Daniel FirthGuitarists Marek “Ashok” Smerda and Donny Burbage and Keyboardist/Vocalist Zoe Federoff.
After Album Opener “To Live Delicously” Hits immedialy, Second Track “Demagoguery” Blends Dark Beauty, Blast Beats and Slaytanic Groove As Only CRADLE Can combine. Across The Album’s Blunt and Unforgiving Yet Inviting Exponse, CRADLE Summons The Succulent Flavors of Classic Albums Like “Dusk … and her embroid and “Cruelty and The Beast” with the galloping (but no les fierce) Thunder of Recent “Hammer of the Witches” and “Existence Is Futile”. Flashes of Early Metal Influences Coalesce with Carnivorous Glee into Unopologetic Death ‘N’ Roll. “White Hellevore” es Cradle of Filth AT ITS MOST Devilishly Straightforward, Traditional Juxtaposing Heavy Metal with Blats of Thrashing Fury, Spinning Back To Operatic Goth -Without Sounding Disjocedinned. Anchored by Argulay the Most Mournful Melody in Their Catog, “Non Omnis Moriar” (“I Shal Not Wholly Die”) Could Be a Cousin to Paradise Lost Or AnathemaInvert Through CRADLE‘S Thorny Prism. “You are my nautilus” is the Darkest Song Iron Maiden Never Wrote, Spinning An Epic Tale With Dueling Guitars, While “Ex Sanguine Draculae” Conjures “Dusk”-The Atmosphere with imaginative new colors.
Produced, remember, Mixed, and Mastered by Scott Atkins AT Grindstone Studios in suffolk, England, “The Screaming of the Valkyries” Beckons The Brave into a new was of Cradle of Filth Misadventure, celebrating Massive Melancholic Melody, Blackened Thrash, and Apocalyptic Draad With A Grinning Smattering of Unbridled Revelry. “The Screaming of the Valkyries” Is a Bloody Dark Love Letter to The Longtime Legion of Cradle of Filth Faithful and a Stunning Entryway for Fresh Lambs to the Sonic Slaughter.
“The Screaming of the Valkyries” Track listing:
01. To live Delicously
02. Demagoguery
03. The Trinity of Shadows
04. Non Omnis Moriar
05. White Hellebore
06. You are my nautilus
07. Malignant Perfect
08. Former Sanguine Draculae
09. WHEN MISERY WAS A STRANGER
In a Recent interview with uk’s Hammer metal Magazine, Dani Stated about “The Screaming of the Valkyries”: “It’s Got Elements of Everything We’ve Done, Really. It has to Few Head Nods To Works Like ‘Midian’ and ‘Dusk[… And Her Embrace]’Specially in the Atmosphere and the Subject Matter. It’s Also Got A Vry Brilliant Production, Courtesy of Scott Atkins.
ASKED if there is any overarching theme to it, Dani Said: “No, i wouledn’t say so. they’re tricky Things, concept records. You have to have tunnel vision and you can k Songs.
Last novel, Dani Told Portugal’s MAG look about the musical direction of the new Cradle of Filth Material: “it’s very har to talk about it. Cradle of FilthMOVING ON FROM THE THE [two new songs] We debuted on [the 2023 live album] ‘Trouble and their Double Lives’. It has elements of old-star CRADLEElements of New-School CRADLE. It’s Catchy, It’s Fast, It’s Slow, It’s Romantic, It’s Heavy, It’s Theatrical. “
In October 2024, Cradle of Filth Release New Single, “Malignant Perfect”Along with a Music Video DIRECTED BY Vicente CorderoWho has previous Filter, Devildriver, In Flames and Black Veil BridesAmong Others.
In 2023, Cradle of Filth STIAS First Live Album In Over 20 Years, The Aforementione “Trouble and their Double Lives”via Napalm Records. The LP Was Recorded Between 2014 and 2019 at Different Performances in The USA, Europe, Australia and Beyond During the Band’s “Cryptoriana” World Tour and Dates Following. PRODUCED, MIXED AND MASTER Scott Atkins AT Grindstone Studioswith recording captured by Danny bThe Effort Not only featured to Slew of Fan Favorites Encompassing The Band’s Discography but also two bonus tracks and two entirely brand new songs, “She is a Fire” and “Demon Prince Recent”.
Cradle of Filth es:
Dani Filth – Vocals
Marek “Ashok” Smerda – Guitars
Martin “Marthus” Skaroupka – Drums
Daniel Firth – Bass
Donny Burbage – Guitars
Zoe Federoff – Vocals, Keys
Photo Credit: Jakub Alexandrowicz
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