One of the UK’s most successful metal acts, Cradle Of Filth, are set to spread the darkness upon the Great Southern Land this May as they bring their dynamic symphonic style of gothic black metal to Australian audiences in 2013.
After first forming in Suffolk in 1991, after a string of demo recordings The Filth released their debut album, The Principle of Evil Made Flesh in 1994. They have since become world-renowned for their unique approach to metal, along with the dark poetic lyrics from the hand of enigmatic frontman Dani Filth.
The Manticore & Other Horrors, Cradle of Filth’s tenth studio full-length, 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’ being the ravening title track. It 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’ bare the sweet ingredients of vampirism and lycanthropy; the wicked ‘For Your Vulgar Delectation’ and ‘Frost On her Pillow’ are woven perversely into grim fairytales, whilst classic, monumental tracks like ‘The Abhorrent’ and ‘Siding With The Titans’ both extol tentacular Lovecraftian values.
The album itself possesses an altogether new atmosphere for the band, incorporating a heavier, faster NWOBBM (New Wave of British Black Metal) punk vibe that is both current and cruel, blended with ornate orchestration and the quirky immediateness of 2000’s Midian opus.
Recorded in eight weeks at both Springvale and Grindstone studios in Suffolk, (where it was also mixed by Scott Atkins), the album is 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.
Singer Dani Filth had this to say on the new album: “This is our tenth 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!”
Cradle of Filth is set to spread their darkness upon the Great Southern land this May.
Cradle Of Filth Australian Tour 2013 Dates
KillRockStar BigDog Entertainment by arrangement with X-Ray Touring present
Special guests To Be Announced.
Thursday 9 May HiFi. Brisbane
Friday 10 May Palace Theatre. Melbourne
Saturday 11 May UNSW Roundhouse. Sydney
Sunday 12 May Metropolis. Fremantle
Tickets on sale Monday 25 February via usual outlets.
