UK black metallers CRADLE OF FILTH have announced dates on their North American Tour 2013 with special guests THE FACELESS, DECAPITATED and THE AGONIST. The tour kicks off at the end of February in New York and runs until late March in Canada.
Dates include:
February
22 – New York, NY – Irving Plaza
23 – Worcester, MA – Palladium
24 – Philadelphia, PA – Theater Of Living Arts
27 – Charlotte, NC – The Fillmore
28 – Lake Buena Vista, FL – House Of Blues
March
1 – Atlanta, GA – The Masquerade
3 – Houston, TX – House Of Blues
4 – Dallas, TX – House Of Blues
6 – W. Hollywood, CA – House Of Blues
7 – Tempe, AZ – The Marquee
8 – Anaheim, CA – House Of Blues
9 – San Diego, CA – House Of Blues
10 – San Francisco, CA – The Fillmore
12 – Seattle, WA – Studio Seven
13 – Vancouver, BC – Commodore Ballroom
14 – Spokane, WA – Knitting Factory
16 – Denver, CO – Summit Music Hall
20 – Cincinnati, OH – Bogart’s
21 – Chicago, IL – House Of Blues
22 – Cleveland, OH – House Of Blues
23 – Detroit, MI – St Andrews Hall
25 – Toronto, ON – Phoenix Concert Theatre
26 – Guelph, ON – Guelph Concert Theatre
CRADLE OF FILTH vocalist Dani Filth has written “a tour diary of sorts” dated December 5th, an excerpt follows:
“Yesterday was fun, especially our self-contained Buck Rogers Iso-cubes way below the waterline in the hull of the love boat. Sleep was inevitable but we set our alarms for a one o’clock meeting at the bar to drink hideous aniseed shots and lager pints, then reconvene to the disco to watch some muppet play cover tunes for the old folk who throng the boat like harbingers of death. Back on the bus we listen to music over a few beers and chat, eventually conjuring forth a saviour out of a strange nozzled pan which becomes the figurehead of our warped sense of humour… The Red Helmet. Who is he, where does he come from? What powers does he possess in this dark corner of the world? Why, he could be anyone… And so he is. Anyone who dons his mask becomes the formidable Red Helmet. Protector of the innocent, wherever they may wander.
Some people think that life in a touring band is all hams and plaques. I can assure you it is not, especially when you start getting ill as I did today here in Tampere, Finland. A stomach bug isn’t all that you say, well it bloody well is when you have to sing and you’re dehydrated for all the using of the toilet and nauseous to boot. Still, the venue is sold-out, there is a sauna downstairs in the subterranean hive along with a wipe-clean fuck bed, we have an in-store signing to undertake and again, the food is really good once we return from our session at a local record store, though times are definitely a-changing as there are no freebies for our troubles. Looks like I’ll have to order the new KISS album off t’ Internet on my return…
The stage is a little odd as it seems to go round a corner so that James (McIlroy, guitarist) is actually pointing a different direction to the rest of us but the audience is great, even though we drop a couple of songs due to my erratic tummy problems. In fact everybody here is cool, from those who come out to the signing to those who serve us extra lashings of ice cream and sprinkly bits for our dinner. The day ends with the aforementioned sauna, all the band cramming in for a good long dousing, with the lads in towels and Caroline (Campbell, keyboardist) in what appears to be a ’50s bathing suit. The bus doesn’t leave until really early in the morning so the guys and Gaahl in GOD SEED wanna party but I slouch off to the bus, sign a few bits and bobs on the way and crawl into bed to watch a Hammer Horror movie before slipping into a haunted, restless sleep. I fucking hate being ill!”
Paul Allender, guitarist for heavy metal’s most infamous act, Cradle of Filth, recently sat down to discuss the band’s latest opus, The Manticore and Other Horrors. Check out the first half of his track-by-track analysis on YouTube below.
The Manticore and Other Horrors can be ordered online via the Nuclear Blast web-store at: http://bit.ly/cofnbusa and digitally through iTunes at: http://bit.ly/cofhoritun. Click here: http://bit.ly/cofspecials to find out where you can purchase The Manticore and Other Horrors at a local music retailer.
The band’s second album on Nuclear Blast entered the Billboard Top 200 at #96, with first-week sales topping 4,500 units.
1. The Unveiling of O
2. The Abhorrent
3. For your Vulgar Delectation
4. Illicitus
5. Manticore
6. Frost on her Pillow
7. Huge Onyx Wings Behind Despair
8. Pallid Reflection
9. Siding with the Titans
10. Succumb to This
11. Nightmares of an Ether Drinker
12. Death, The Great Adventure *Deluxe Edition Digipak
13. Sinfonia *Deluxe Edition Digipak
Recorded in eight weeks at both Springvale and Grindstone studios (where it was also mixed by Scott Atkins) in Suffolk, UK, The Manticore and Other Horrors is a testament to the longevity of The ‘Filth, as not only does it reek of Cradle’s (feared or revered) brand of delicious metal vamperotica, but this thoroughly modern album places the band firmly in fresh killing fields anew.
The Manticore and Other Horrors itself possesses an altogether new atmosphere for the band, incorporating a heavier, faster NWOBBM punk vibe that is both current and cruel, blended with ornate orchestration and the quirky immediateness of 2000’s Midian opus.
The album’s title can be likened to a bestiary, a collection of stories on monsters – personal demons, Chimeras, literary fiends and world-enslaving entities to blame but a few.
Artwork for the release comes courtesy of Matthew Vickerstaff of Darkwaveart.
Commented front-man, Dani Filth, “This is our 10th commandment in metal. We have diversified and kept alive the spirit of this band and breathed it into something that I can proudly say, slays like an absolute motherf**ker. The Manticore is coming… Long live the filth!”
The band’s latest music video for “Frost on her Pillow,” directed by Stuart Birchall, can be seen on YouTube below.
Check out some behind-the-scenes footage from the video shoot on YouTube below.
Lyric videos for two additional new songs, “Manticore”:
and “For your Vulgar Delectation”:
Stream “Siding with the Titans” on Soundcloud below.
CRADLE OF FILTH guitarist Paul Allender recently spoke to Top5Tracks.com about…. you guessed, his five favourite songs. His list is as follows:
1) IRON MAIDEN – ‘The Trooper’
2) MOTÖRHEAD – ‘Ace Of Spades’
3) JUDAS PRIEST – Defenders Of The Faith (entire album)
4) DIO – ‘Holy Diver’
5) CRADLE OF FILTH – ‘For Your Vulgar Delecation’
Allender on ‘The Trooper’: “I like this song because it was this track that got me into metal. I bought this when it came out just because I liked the cover. Once I put it on I was hooked for life!”
Go to this location to check out Allender‘s comments on each song.
CRADLE OF FILTH recently entered the US Billboard Top 200 chart at #96 with their new album The Manticore And Other Horrors. The first-week sales topped 4,500 copies.
CRADLE OF FILTH are in the midst of their Creatures From The Black Abyss Tour of Europe with GOD SEED, ROTTING CHRIST, DARKEND and BLYND. Dates are:
November
24 – Zlin, Czech Republic – Winter Masters Of Rock
26 – Bologna, Italy – Estragon
27 – Milan, Italy – Alcatraz (Small Hall)
29 – Montpellier, France – Rockstore
30 – Bilbao, Spain – Santana 27
December
1 – Santiago De Compostela, Spain – Capitol
2 – Porto, Portugal – Hard Club
4 – Madrid, Spain – La Riviera
5 – Barcelona, Spain – Salamandra
7 – Geiselwind, Germany – Musichall
8 – Bochum, Germany – Matrix
9 – Pratteln, Switzerland – Z-7
11 – Prague, Czech Republic – Meet Factory
13 – Bratislava, Slovakia – Majestic Music Club
14 – Munich, Germany – Theaterfabrik
15 – Wels, Austria – Schlachthof
16 – Berlin, Germany – C-Club
19 – London, UK – Forum
Ramon Martos Garcia of PureGrainAudio.com recently conducted an interview with guitarist Paul Allender of British extreme metallers CRADLE OF FILTH. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below.
PureGrainAudio.com: I know it’s probably too soon to say, but in your opinion, how important do you think this new album [“The Manticore And Other Horrors”] will be for CRADLE OF FILTH‘s career?
Paul: I think it will be really important. It got an injection of groove, and there’s a punk aspect that we put back into it that the band had lost since the first album, “Principle Of Evil Made Flesh”. That album had that vibe. It had that real aggressive, metal-punky vibe to it, which the band completely lost. And over the last few albums, it just felt like the stuff we were writing sounded the same. So this time we had to do something more drastic. There’s nothing worse than a band that keeps releasing albums that sound exactly the same over and over again. We have got such a really good feedback so far. The journalists that have heard it so far are really into it. Especially in Europe, there is a whole bunch of journalists that said this is the best thing we have ever done for the last 12 years, which is brilliant. And we had a lot of people coming to say to us as well: “We kind of lost interest for band on the last few albums, but this one puts you back in the game finally.” So I think it’s really important.
PureGrainAudio.com: One more time, you’re collaborating with producer/engineer Scott Atkins. But this is the first he produced the whole album. What is so special about him?
Paul: Scott actually produced the whole album. On the last album, he recorded just the guitars. And after that, he actually said to us, “You know, I got this brilliant idea if you please let me produce the whole album. Please let me have a go. I got some cool ideas especially for guitars about this and about that… I’ll visualize what the band’s missing. The last few albums were good but you’re not getting the reviews that I personally think the band deserves.” I think he has done an excellent job; the fucking guitars are raging! His ideas made this album different. It’s just goes around somewhere we probably would have never gone without that push. He has done a really good job. He’s got amazing ideas in the studio.
PureGrainAudio.com: So, sound-wise, are you pretty satisfied about how it came out?
Paul: Absolutely! It’s the best thing in a long time, I love it. It’s so clear. It’s what a lot of bands strive for, recording an album that’s clear. And it’s not overproduced either. It’s just nice to have an album where the guitars are absolutely raging and you can hear absolutely everything. We’ve never really had that before on an album. But this time you can actually hear everything and that’s brilliant and that’s a really step forward for the band.
Kaaos TV conducted an interview with guitarist Paul Allender of British extreme metallers CRADLE OF FILTH before the band’s November 15 concert at Klubi in Tampere, Finland. You can now watch the chat below.
CRADLE OF FILTH‘s tenth studio album, “The Manticore And Other Horrors”, sold 4,500 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 96 on The Billboard 200 chart. The band’s previous full-length effort, “Darkly, Darkly, Venus Aversa”, opened with 5,800 units in November 2010 to land at No. 99.
CRADLE OF FILTH‘s 2008 CD, “Godspeed On The Devil’s Thunder”, premiered with a little over 11,000 copies to enter the chart at No. 48. This was slightly less than the first-week tally registered by 2006’s “Thornography”, which shifted nearly 13,000 copies the first week out to enter The Billboard chart at No. 66, and “Nymphetamine”, which premiered with almost 14,000 copies back in October 2004.
“The Manticore And Other Horrors” was released in North America on October 30 via Nuclear Blast Records.
Recorded in eight weeks at both Springvale and Grindstone studios (where it was also mixed by Scott Atkins), Suffolk, “The Manticore And Other Horrors” is a testament to the longevity of the ‘FILTH, as not only does it reek of CRADLE‘s (feared or revered) brand of delicious metal vamperotica, but this thoroughly modern album places the band firmly in fresh killing fields anew.
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