Cradle of Filth will be hitting New Zealand for the first time ever, performing their classic album Cruelty and the Beast in full!
The malevolent kings of British metal. Masters of the darkest arts and crafts. Cradle Of Filth spread their fetid gospel of obscene theatricality, pitch-black horror and exquisite musical madness to New Zealand this September!
Cradle of Filth’s musical vision of blackened symphonic gothic metal arguably reached it’s height with Cruelty and the Beast, a fully realised concept album based on the legend of the “Blood Countess” Elizabeth Báthory. Dani Filth’s unhinged vocal versatility and gloriously twisted literary skills collided with a grandiose barrage of scything riffs, spoken word narration by the “Countess”, macabre atmospherics, and bone-wrenching brutality changed metal forever.
Cradle of Filth would go on as we know to build upon the concept album idea and by sticking to themes of gothic horror, it allowed the band to tread the waters of extreme goth rock and black metal like no other.
New Zealand it has been too long. It is time to bathe in Cradle of Filth!
Destroy All Lines, Oracle Management, Valhalla Touring & Third Eye Music Present:
CRADLE OF FILTH
Cruelty And The Beast Live
Thursday 12th September | The Studio | Auckland
Tickets on sale Thursday 20th June from utr.co.nz, eventfinda.co.nz & valhallatouring.com
Cradle Of Filth Bio:
Cradle of Filth are an English extreme metal band, formed in Suffolk, England in 1991. The band’s musical style evolved originally from black metal to a cleaner and more “produced” amalgam of gothic metal, symphonic metal and other metal genres. Their lyrical themes and imagery are heavily influenced by Gothic literature, poetry, mythology and horror films. The band has gone through many lineup changes, with vocalist Dani Filth being the only constant member.
The band has broken free from its original niche by courting mainstream publicity. This increased accessibility has brought coverage from the likes of Kerrang! and MTV, along with frequent main stage appearances at major festivals such as Ozzfest, Download and even the mainstream Sziget Festival. They have sometimes been perceived as Satanic by casual observers, even though their outright lyrical references to Satanism are few and far between; their use of Satanic imagery has arguably always been more for shock value than any seriously-held beliefs.
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