CRADLE OF FILTH vocalist Dani “Filth” Davey recently spoke to Terrorizer magazine abut his favorite British extreme metal album: “History Of A Time To Come”, the 1988 effort from SABBAT. Check out the clip below.
Sanctuary Records reissued two classic SABBAT albums: “History Of A Time To Come” and “Dreamweaver” (1989). The remastered CDs contain audio recordings from the band’s 1990 concert in East Berlin, which was previously released as the official “The End Of The Beginning” video.
CRADLE OF FILTH‘s tenth studio album, “The Manticore And Other Horrors”, will be released in North America on October 30 via Nuclear Blast Records.
In a new video, CRADLE OF FILTH leader Dani Filth answers questions about the band’s new album, The Manticore And Other Horrors. Check it out at this location.
The Manticore And Other Horrors is out on October 29th in the UK and Europe via Peaceville, and on October 30th in North America via Nuclear Blast.
A new audio sample for the album track, ‘Manticore’, is available below:
Cradle Of Filth recently uploaded a lyric video for the album track, ‘For Your Vulgar Delectation’. Watch below:
The artwork and tracklisting for The Manticore And Other Horrors can be found below:
‘The Unveiling Of O’
‘The Abhorrent’
‘For Your Vulgar Delectation’
‘Illicitus’
‘Manticore’
‘Frost On Her Pillow’
‘Huge Onyx Wings Behind Despair’
‘Pallid Reflection’
‘Siding With The Titans’
‘Succumb To This’
‘Nightmares Of An Ether Drinker’ (bonus track)
‘Death, The Great Adventure’ (bonus track)
‘Sinfonia’
In live news, Cradle Of Filth has announced they will be touring across Europe on their next Creatures From The Black Abyss Tour that will feature GOD SEED, ROTTING CHRIST, DARKEND and BLYND. Rotting Christ will join the tour from November 7th to November 27th and from December 11th till December 19th; Darkend from November 7th to November 27th (first part); and Blynd from November 27th to December 19th (second part).
Tour dates are as follows:
November
7 – Haarlem, Holland – Patronaat
8 – Leeuwarden, Holland – Romeein
9 – Osnabrück, Germany – Hyde Park
10 – Aarhus, Denmark – Train
12 – Gothenburg, Sweden – Trädgarn
13 – Stockholm, Sweden – Klubben
15 – Tampere, Finland – Klubbi
16 – Helsinki, Finland – Nosturi
17 – Tallinn, Estonia – Rock Cafe
19 – Minsk, Belarus – Re:Public
20 – Kiev, Ukraine – Bingo
22 – Warsaw, Poland – Progressja
23 – Krakow, Poland – Kwadrat
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
Italian orchestral blacksters DARKEND have just been confirmed for Satans Convention 2012 with Naglfar, Taake, Angantyr, Inquisition and many others. The festival will take place in Halle 101, Speyer – Germany, on December 29.
Meanwhile, DARKEND are to set sail for a European tour alongside Cradle Of Filth, God Seed and Rotting Christ in
support of their latest album ‘Grand Guignol – Book I’ released earlier this year under the blessing of the Arcane
Witchcraft Coven.
Tour dates and venues are listed below.
07 NOV – (NL) Haarlem, Patronaat
08 NOV – (NL) Leeuwarden, Romein
09 NOV – (DE) Osnabruck, Hyde Park
10 NOV – (DK) Aarhus, Train
12 NOV – (SE) Gothenburg, Tradgarn
13 NOV – (SE) Stockholm, Klubben
15 NOV – (FI) Tampere, Klubi
16 NOV – (FI) Helsinki, Nosturi
17 NOV – TBA
19 NOV – TBA
20 NOV – (UA) Kiev, Bingo
22 NOV – (PL) Warsaw, Progressja
23 NOV – (PL) Kracow, Kwadrat
24 NOV – (CZ) Zlin, Winter Masters Of Rock
26 NOV – (IT) Bologna, Estragon
27 NOV – (IT) Milan, Magazzini Generali
CRADLE OF FILTH will release their new album, The Manticore And Other Horrors, on October 29th in the UK and Europe via Peaceville, and on October 30th in North America via Nuclear Blast.
A new audio sample for the album track, ‘Manticore’, is available for streaming now at the Nuclear Blast US webshop. To listen to the sample, click on any of the new album item products here and click ‘Play’ on the SoundCloud player in item description.
Cradle Of Filth recently uploaded a lyric video for the album track, ‘For Your Vulgar Delectation’. Watch below:
The artwork and tracklisting for The Manticore And Other Horrors can be found below:
‘The Unveiling Of O’
‘The Abhorrent’
‘For Your Vulgar Delectation’
‘Illicitus’
‘Manticore’
‘Frost On Her Pillow’
‘Huge Onyx Wings Behind Despair’
‘Pallid Reflection’
‘Siding With The Titans’
‘Succumb To This’
‘Nightmares Of An Ether Drinker’ (bonus track)
‘Death, The Great Adventure’ (bonus track)
‘Sinfonia’
In live news, Cradle Of Filth has announced they will be touring across Europe on their next Creatures From The Black Abyss Tour that will feature GOD SEED, ROTTING CHRIST, DARKEND and BLYND. Rotting Christ will join the tour from November 7th to November 27th and from December 11th till December 19th; Darkend from November 7th to November 27th (first part); and Blynd from November 27th to December 19th (second part).
Tour dates are as follows:
November
7 – Haarlem, Holland – Patronaat
8 – Leeuwarden, Holland – Romeein
9 – Osnabrück, Germany – Hyde Park
10 – Aarhus, Denmark – Train
12 – Gothenburg, Sweden – Trädgarn
13 – Stockholm, Sweden – Klubben
15 – Tampere, Finland – Klubbi
16 – Helsinki, Finland – Nosturi
17 – Tallinn, Estonia – Rock Cafe
19 – Minsk, Belarus – Re:Public
20 – Kiev, Ukraine – Bingo
22 – Warsaw, Poland – Progressja
23 – Krakow, Poland – Kwadrat
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
The official lyric video for the song “For Your Vulgar Delectation” from British extreme metallers CRADLE OF FILTH can be seen below. The track comes off the band’s tenth studio album, “The Manticore And Other Horrors”, which will be released in North America on October 30 via Nuclear Blast Records.
The track listing for the CD is as follows:
01. The Unveiling Of O
02. The Abhorrent
03. For Your Vulgar Delectation
04. Illicitus
05. Manticore
06. Frost On Her Pillow
07. Huge Onyx Wings Behind Despair
08. Pallid Reflection
09. 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)
A mini-site for “The Manticore And Other Horrors”has been launched, featuring album audio, information, gallery, desktop downloads, plus a chance to download the track “For Your Vulgar Delectation” for free.
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.
“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. “Manticore”, the ravening title track, is a song about a beautiful mythological horror that comes to be feared as the disfigurehead of foreign occupation in the Indian provinces.
The songs “Illicitus” and “Pallid Reflection” bear the sweet ingredients of vampirism and lycanthropy; the wicked “For Your Vulgar Delectation” and “Frost On Her Pillow” are woven perversely into grim fairy tales, whilst classic, monumental tracks like “The Abhorrent And Siding With The Titans” both extol tentacular Lovecraftian values.
Speaking to Metal-Trails.com at this year’s Wacken Open Air festival, which took place August 2-4 in Wacken, Germany, CRADLE OF FILTH frontman Dani “Filth” Davey stated about the musical direction of the band’s new album, “It’s a slightly different direction for CRADLE OF FILTH. It’s very fresh for people who appreciate our other works. It’s a slightly shorter album, but we’ve concentrated on melody and different techniques that have been slightly missing from our music — it’s a bit punkier, a bit more structured, a bit more singalong, but it’s still extreme and it’s still CRADLE OF FILTH.”
He continued, “It’s very hard to speak about it, because it’s only been two years since our last record, so if it was so familiar, trying to explain what that record was like and what this record is like… Because there’s so much going on in our music — there’s symphonic parts and then there’s really fast parts and slow, romantic interludes and, like I said, punk and New Wave Of British Heavy Metal in there. But it’s all kind of wrapped up in theology and cinematic kind of soundscape. So it’s hard to break it down and say, ‘Well, this is what we’re doing this time that’s a bit different from the last time.’ But it’s good. We’re really proud of what we’re doing. I think people are gonna be very surprised when they hear it and go, ‘Wow, that’s CRADLE OF FILTH for 2012.'”
CRADLE OF FILTH has announced they will be touring across Europe on their next Creatures From The Black Abyss Tour that will feature GOD SEED, ROTTING CHRIST, DARKEND and BLYND. Rotting Christ will join the tour from November 7th to November 27th and from December 11th till December 19th; Darkend from November 7th to November 27th (first part); and Blynd from November 27th to December 19th (second part).
Tour dates are below:
November
7 – Haarlem, Holland – Patronaat
8 – Leeuwarden, Holland – Romeein
9 – Osnabrück, Germany – Hyde Park
10 – Aarhus, Denmark – Train
12 – Gothenburg, Sweden – Trädgarn
13 – Stockholm, Sweden – Klubben
15 – Tampere, Finland – Klubbi
16 – Helsinki, Finland – Nosturi
17 – Tallinn, Estonia – Rock Cafe
19 – Minsk, Belarus – Re:Public
20 – Kiev, Ukraine – Bingo
22 – Warsaw, Poland – Progressja
23 – Krakow, Poland – Kwadrat
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
Cradle Of Filth will release a special limited edition of their new album The Manticore And Other Horrors on October 29th in The UK and Europe via Peaceville, and October 30th in North America via Nuclear Blast. The limited edition contains two bonus tracks in the shape of ‘Nightmares Of An Ether Drinker’, and ‘Death, The Great Adventure’, and is presented in deluxe digibook format with 28 page booklet. The complete tracklisting can be found below the album cover:
‘The Unveiling Of O’
‘The Abhorrent’
‘For Your Vulgar Delectation’
‘Illicitus’
‘Manticore’
‘Frost On Her Pillow’
‘Huge Onyx Wings Behind Despair’
‘Pallid Reflection’
‘Siding With The Titans’
‘Succumb To This’
‘Nightmares Of An Ether Drinker’ (bonus track)
‘Death, The Great Adventure’ (bonus track)
‘Sinfonia’
The mini-site for The Manticore And Other Horrors, is online now, featuring album audio, information, gallery, desktop downloads, plus the chance to download the track, ‘For Your Vulgar Delectation’, for free.
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‘The Unveiling Of O’
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