DANI FILTH talks about numerous CRADLE OF FILTH lineup changes
03-03-2025
In a new interview with Terry Palamara of Loud And Proud Italy, Dani Filth, the frontman and the sole remaining founding member of British extreme metallers CRADLE OF FILTH, was asked how he feels about some fans’ perception that he runs his band as a Dani Filth solo project and whether he would actually ever consider releasing a solo album. He responded: “I’m too busy to release a blooming solo record. And, yeah, if it was just me, it’d be called Dani Filth, and it’s not — it’s called CRADLE OF FILTH.
“I think everything needs change,” he continued, referencing CRADLE OF FILTH‘s past lineup changes. “We’ve never — well, that’s not true. We sacked three people over the span of our career. And it was all a long time ago, like 20 years ago at least.
“People leave the band because it’s just a lot of commitment, a lot of hard work, a lot of traveling, a lot of mental disrepair. As in the case of our previous guitarist, people leave to start families and find that the lifestyle is a bit too hectic … or they just think they can do it better or just drift apart.
“It’s very important to be a family when you join our band, and as a musician joining CRADLE — well, any band, I guess, nowadays, you have to wear many hats,” Dani explained. “So it’s not just being a pretty face. In CRADLE OF FILTH, you have to write, contribute toward the album. That happened on (the upcoming CRADLE OF FILTH) record (‘The Screaming Of The Valkyries’); everybody contributed to its creation. And then you’ve gotta do other things. You’ve gotta speak to people, meet-and-greets, videos. There’s a lot of different things you have to actually get rather good at, or at least deal with.”
CRADLE OF FILTH will release its 14th studio album, “The Screaming Of The Valkyries”, on March 21, 2025 via Napalm Records. Available for pre-order, the album excels as a succinct summation of the ghosts of CRADLE‘s past, while taking bold new steps into the future. Entrance yourself with a new CRADLE OF FILTH anthem for a new era — “To Live Deliciously” — out since last month. The track hits with rhythmic, menacing urgency built around a Libertine lyrical hook that twists and writhes with aggression, atmosphere and melody.
Watch “To Live Deliciously” below.
CRADLE OF FILTH master of ceremonies Dani Filth says about the new track: “The song is about the celebration of life. Of indulging in everything unfettered from the conformities of religion, fashion or state. Free from guilt or constraint. As nature intended. It could be read as a hedonistic life code. And a positive one if not done at the expense or the suffering of others. To delight in simply ‘being.’ Being alive and free in the here and now.”
Watch the previously released “Malignant Perfection” below.
On “The Screaming Of The Valkyries”, Dani‘s recognizable scream and equally identifiable growl stand mightily alongside twin guitar attacks, symphonic flourishes and explosive rhythm section, implemented by drummer Martin “Marthus” Skaroupka, bassist Daniel Firth, guitarists Marek “Ashok” Smerda and Donny Burbage and keyboardist/vocalist Zoe Federoff.
Produced, recorded, mixed and mastered by Scott Atkins at Grindstone Studios in Suffolk, England, The Screaming of the Valkyries beckons the brave into a new era of CRADLE OF FILTH misadventure, celebrating massive melancholic melody, blackened thrash, and apocalyptic existential dread 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 will be available in the following formats:
– 1-CD Digisleeve
– 1-LP Gatefold Black w/ 4 Page Booklet
– 1-LP Gatefold VIOLA Vinyl w/ 4 Page Booklet (GSA retail only – limited to 300)
– 1-LP Gatefold GOLD Vinyl w/ 4 Page Booklet (UK retail only – limited to 500)
– 1-LP Gatefold WHITE Vinyl w/ 4 Page Booklet (North American retail only – limited to 600)
– 1-LP Gatefold LIQUID-BLOOD Vinyl w/ 24 page booklet + certificate (Napalm Records mail order only – limited to 100)
– 1-LP Gatefold SPLATTERED BLACK SMOKE/WHITE ORANGE BLACK Vinyl w/ 24 page booklet + Patch (Napalm Records mail order only – limited to 300)
– 1-LP Gatefold MARBLED TRANSLUCENT RED BLACK Vinyl w/ 24 page booklet (Napalm Records mail order only – limited to 300)
– 1-CD Digisleeve Coffin Shaped BOX SET w/ Pencil, Bookmark, Notebook, Flag (Napalm Records international mail order only – limited to 500)
– Bundle: 1-CD Digisleeve + Quill + Coasters
– Bundle: 1-LP Gatefold BLACK Vinyl + Quill + Coasters
The Screaming Of The Valkyries track listing:
1. To Live Deliciously
2. Demagoguery
3. The Trinity Of Shadows
4. Non Omnis Moriar
5. White Hellebore
6. You Are My Nautilus
7. Malignant Perfection
8. Ex Sanguine Draculae
9. When Misery Was A Stranger
FESTIVAL DATES 2025:
04.-07.06.25 PL – Gdańsk / Mystic Festival
13.-15.06.25 UK – Derby / Download Festival 2025
10.-12.07.25 NL – Emmen / Pitfest
23.-27.07.25 SI – Tolmin / Tolminator Metal Fest
CRADLE OF FILTH is:
Dani “Filth” Davay – Vocals
Marek ‘Ashok’ Smerda – Guitars
Martin ‘Marthus’ Skaroupka – Drums
Daniel Firth – Bass
Donny Burbage – Guitars
Zoe Federoff – Vocals, Keys
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