CRADLE OF FILTH Frontman Checks In From the Studio

June 24, 2008

CRADLE OF FILTH frontman Dani "Filth" Davey has posted an update from producer Andy Sneap's Backstage recording studio in Derbyshire, England where the band is working on its new album, due later in the year via Roadrunner Records. An excerpt follows.

"Everything else recording-wise has been finished bar vocals for two songs that will undoubtedly see the light of day far after the album's release (possibly on film soundtracks which always seem to require non-album tracks). This also includes the addition of all-female choir sections and an additional Swedish male opera singer, as well as my daughter Luna contributing poetical lines to the song 'Darkness Incarnate'.

"The mix is well on its way toward completion. We'll finish one by the end of this week and then retire our separate ways for a well-deserved week at home, the premise being to return a week later to re-evaluate and complete it fully (with the intermittent narrative being not-so-lightly sprinkled on the top well, it is 'Candyman' voicing it after all).

"Now comes the time of video conceptualising and rehearsals, artwork assembly and heavy press schedules in Europe and America, working our arses off to bring the braying beast to life. Phew! No rest for the wicked, I say."

Headbanger's Blog recently talked with Dani "Filth" Davey about the sound of the British extreme metal band's forthcoming album. The as-yet-untitled CD is a concept record about a legendary serial killer from the 15th Century, Gilles De Rais, a French nobleman who fought alongside Joan of Arc and accumulated great wealth before becoming a satanist, sexual deviant and a murderer. Davey also spoke about the song her wrote for Dario Argento's new horror film "Mother of Tears", the horror-themed video he wants to do for the new record and the long-awaited history book he wrote with Gavin Baddeley, "Gospel of Filth: A Bible of Decadence and Darkness", which he hopes will be out by Halloween around the time the new record drops.

Download an MP3 of the interview at this location.

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