CRADLE OF FILTH: European Tour Dates Announced

August 29, 2006

British extreme metallers CRADLE OF FILTH have lined up the following European tour dates:

Nov. 12 - 013 - Tilburg, NETH
Nov. 13 - Bataclan - Paris, FRA
Nov. 15 - ABBox - Brussels, BEL
Nov. 16 - La Laiterie - Strasbourg, FRA
Nov. 17 - La Cooperative de Mai Clermont - Ferrand, FRA
Nov. 19 - Heineken Hall - Madrid, SPA
Nov. 20 - Paradise Garage - Lisbon, POR
Nov. 21 - Hard Club - Porto, POR
Nov. 23 - BergaraJam - Euskadi, SPA
Nov. 24 - Apolo - Barcelona, SPA
Nov. 26 - Alcatraz - Milan, ITA
Nov. 27 - Volkshaus - Zurich, SWI
Nov. 29 - Boogaloo - Zagreb, CRO
Nov. 30 - Petofi Hall - Budapest, HUN
Dec. 01 - Planet Music - Vienna, AUT
Dec. 02 - Novesta Hall - Zlin, CZR
Dec. 04 - Live Music Hall Lichtstrasse - Köln, GER
Dec. 05 - Longhorn LKA Heiligenwiesen - Stuttgart, GER
Dec. 07 - Alte Reithalle - Dresden, GER
Dec. 08 - Progresje - Warsaw, POL
Dec. 10 - Markthalle Klosterwall - Hamburg, GER
Dec. 11 - Train - Aarhus, DEN
Dec. 12 - Rockefeller - Oslo, NOR
Dec. 13 - Amager Bio - Copenhagen, DEN
Dec. 14 - Karen - Gotheborg, SWE

As previously reported, a brand new CRADLE OF FILTH track, entitled "Dirge Inferno", is available for streaming at this location. The song comes off the British extreme metallers' new album, "Thornography", due on October 16 via Roadrunner Records. The follow-up to 2004's "Nymphetamine", "Thornography" was recorded at Lincolnshire, England's Chapel studios with producer Rob Caggiano (BLEEDING THROUGH, ANTHRAX) and was mixed at Backstage Studios in Derbyshire, England by Andy Sneap (MACHINE HEAD, SKINLAB, NEVERMORE).

"Thornography" (view cover artwork at this location) track listing:

01. Under Pregnant Skies She Comes Alive Like Miss Leviathan
02. Dirge Inferno
03. Tonight in Flames
04. Libertina Grimm
05. Byronic Man
06. I Am The Thorn
07. Cemetery And Sundown
08. Lovesick For Mina
09. The Foetus Of A New Day Kicking
10. Rise Of The Pentagram
11. Under Huntress Moon
12. Temptation

The narraration for "Thornography" was once again laid down by Doug Bradley (a.k.a. "Hellraiser"'s chief Cenobite, Pinhead),who has previously worked with the group on "Her Ghost in the Fog" and "Swansong for a Raven".

On the subject of the album's musicial direction, CRADLE OF FILTH guitarist Paul Allender recently told Terrorizer magazine, "There are quite a few guitar solos on this album. To be honest, I've never really classed myself as a lead player as such, but this is the first time I've sat down and seriously practiced lead work. I've been so involved in actually writing new material and coming up with song structures that I haven't had time to practice all the frilly things that go on top of it. Up 'till now, there hasn't really been much room for guitar solos as such. The riffs we write, they're not riffs that are meant to be soloed on top of. They're melodic within themselves. But I'm a great believer than less is definitely more. I love listening to all the shreddy, widdly stuff, but I have no interest in playing it. This new album is quite guitar-orientated. The last album was, but this is definitely more melodic. Dare I say it, there are quite a lot of typical MAIDEN-esque harmonies in there."

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