In a latest interview with Portugal’s Look Magazine, CRADLE OF FILTH frontman Dani Filth was requested why it’s taking greater than three years for him and his bandmates to launch the follow-up to 2021’s “Existence Is Futile” album. He responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “[We’ve done] a great deal of excursions. We have been within the studio starting the drums final Might. However then we went and did all summer time festivals. Then we had holidays — one vacation a yr, which we enable us to rejuvenate. Then I used to be recording with my buddy in America. Then we went to South America and Mexico. Then we went, did a co-headline tour with DEVILDRIVER. Then we went again to the studio. Then our producer had a child. Then it was Christmas, and we did extra within the studio. Then we went on tour in Europe. Yeah, that is what occurred. We have simply been very, very busy.
“It was completed — it has been prepared since July, I feel,” Dani revealed. “We’re having two extra movies and singles earlier than the album drops. Yeah, possibly even 4; I am undecided. It relies upon how nicely it goes. However yeah, there is a plan to a gameplan to all the pieces.”
Requested in regards to the musical course of the brand new CRADLE OF FILTH materials, Dani mentioned: “It’s extremely arduous to speak about it. I do not actually wanna discuss it as a result of I am unable to do it justice. Each album has a number of issues happening. It is only a very, very nice document. It is the subsequent stage of our evolutionary step as CRADLE OF FILTH, transferring on from the [two new songs] we debuted on [the 2023 live album] ‘Bother And Their Double Lives’. It has components of old-school CRADLE, components of new-school CRADLE. It is catchy, it is quick, it is sluggish, it is romantic, it is heavy, it is theatrical.”
Final month, CRADLE OF FILTH launched a brand new single, “Malignant Perfection”, together with a music video directed by Vicente Cordero, who has beforehand labored with FILTER, DEVILDRIVER, IN FLAMES and BLACK VEIL BRIDES, amongst others.
Final yr, CRADLE OF FILTH launched its first dwell album in over 20 years, the aforementioned “Bother And Their Double Lives”, by way of Napalm Data. The LP was recorded between 2014 and 2019 at totally different performances within the USA, Europe, Australia and past throughout the band’s “Cryptoriana” world tour and dates following. Produced, combined and mastered by Scott Atkins at Grindstone Studios, with recording captured by Danny B, the trouble not solely featured a slew of fan favorites encompassing the band’s discography but in addition two bonus tracks and two solely model new songs, “She Is A Fireplace” and “Demon Prince Regent”.
