Have a Filthy Halloween!
UK metal icons Cradle of Filth – probably best known to horror hounds for their contribution to Alex Chandon’s shot-on-video hardgore epic Cradle of Fear – are tossing around all kinds of diabolical Halloween goodies this month, in anticipation of their new album Godspeed on the Devil’s Thunder, due on 10/28 from Roadrunner Records.
Godspeed tells the story of real-life figure Gilles de Rais, a French nobleman and alchemist reputed by many historians to be one of the world’s most notorious serial killers. The Filthy ones are no strangers to accounts of historical murders – their celebrated album Cruelty and the Beast documents the crimes of Hungarian countess Elizabeth Bathory.
“By far this is our most extreme, dramatic and deeply disturbing album to date,” frontman Dani Filth explains on the band’s website. “Screw what our detractors say, everyone who has heard this album has bruised their jaws on the pentagram-bejeweled floor."
To satiate fans over the next few weeks, the self-described “Worlds Stinkiest Band” gave their site an extreme metal makeover, opening it up as a community-based network for the band to better interact with fans. While browsing the depraved, blasphemous concept art therein, brave visitors can preview tracks from Godspeed on the site’s jukebox, including the quaintly titled “Midnight Shadows Crawl to Darken Counsel with Life.” (We had to check twice to make sure that wasn’t actually two or three songs.) Any USA fans who pre-order the album will also receive that song as an instant download.
They’ve also released first single “Honey and Sulphur” as a digital-only download on iTunes and Amazon, and the video for that song is currently in post-production. According to Dani, the entire debacle was shot in a 22-mile-long network of caves in Chislehurst, South London – so we’re guessing the band felt right at home.
Check here soon for a glimpse of the horrors to come...
