Continuing my Best of 2017, next up is Cradle of Filth's 12th studio album "Cryptoriana – The Seductiveness of Decay." The follow-up to 2015's "Hammer of the Witches" was released on September 22, 2017 through Nuclear Blast USA. Led by the spooky Dani Filth, "Cryptoriana" represented a resurgence for the gothic and black metal Brits.... Continue Reading →
INTERVIEW: Dani Filth of CRADLE OF FILTH
Since its unholy birth in Suffolk, England, in 1991 as a raw, underground black metal band, Cradle of Filth has triumphed over nearly every subgenre of extreme metal. From its breakthrough 1996 release, "Dusk … and Her Embrace," that exposed the band's vampiric evil worldwide, 1998’s pinnacle of black metal, "Cruelty and the Beast," the... Continue Reading →