Last week, I posted about Attack! Attack!’s Johnny Franck completely losing his mind when being nearly hit by an object thrown on stage. Perhaps I shouldn’t have been so amused by Franck’s reaction, but I stand by my opinion that he overreacted (in a hilarious way). The incident with Cradle of Filth a few days ago, however, is not funny at all.

Cradle of Filth had to leave the stage at Bloodstock Open Air on August 15, 2009 after some dildo in the audience threw several large objects onto the stage, striking guitarist Paul Allender in the spine. Allender collapsed and …read more

When it comes to demos, I could care less most of the time. Why would a band want to release demos, besides to add some extra tracks to a “Special Edition”? Tracks that you’ll never really listen to much because they are substandard. What used to be good about demos is that they were pretty close to the original song. They may have been rough recordings, but in the end they were just less tweaked songs. These days the songs in pre-production are usually extremely rough and by the time they get all dissected, injected and molested with Pro-Tools …read more

Cradle Of Filth have added some new dates to their North American tour with Satyricon and Septic Flesh.
They will be touring North America and Mexico in support of their latest album Godspeed On The Devils Thunder…or as I like to call it “Gods Peed On The Devil’s Thunder”.
January
11 – Circo Volador – Mexico City, Mexico ** 12 – Café Iguana – Monterrey, Mexico ** 13 – tba – Guadalajara, Mexico ** 15 – Starland Ballrom – Sayreville, NJ 16 – The Palladium – Worcester, MA 17 – Metropolis – Montreal, QC 18 – Capitol Theatre – …read more

Holy crap, there is so much stuff coming out today. On a side note, before I get started the new (and last from the bad) Light This City Stormchaser will be coming on November 11th. I got a review copy the other day and I’m really diggin it. I’ll write up a review later in the week. AC/DC has sold over 3/4 of a million copies of their new album Black Ice in the U.S. alone and over 5 million copies worldwide. That’s some crazy numbers. It’s a cool rock album if you dig AC/DC. I’ll be transcribing the Opeth …read more

Fellow b5media Blogger Roberta over at Earsucker.com had a chance back in September ‘07 to interview Cradle Of Filth’s Back up vocals and lead vocalist for Angtoria, Sarah Jezebel Deva.
Below is a short excerpt from her interview. Click on the link at the bottom for the entire interview.

Earsucker: How is singing for Angtoria different Cradle of Filth? Are you more pleased with the sound?
SJD: Hard to say if I’m more pleased. Angtoria, I’m lead, Filth I’m backing. I’m proud of both.
Interview: Sarah Jezebel Deva
That’s a whole lot of scary woman!

I’m always seeing people saying “this band sucks”, “that band sucks”, so on and so forth without any reason why they hate that band so much. Whether it’s metalcore, hardcore, nu metal whatever, I want to know what drives your hate for some of the bands on this list below. I want to better understand why people are so hateful to bands that I actually like and think are very talented. In return I give some reasons why I hate some of the bands I always bash on here. So Why do you hate:?
Why Do You Hate:…

If you’re a subscriber than I’m sure you already have this issue. The December Issue of Revolver magazine features Black Metal masterminds Dani Filth, Nergal and Shagrath. Some people are offended that Cradle and Behemoth are being called black metal. I’ve even heard Dimmu called symphonic black metal and behemoth called death metal or extreme metal. This just spines from people that have nothing better to do than shuffle stuff around and put things into it’s own little categorical genre like a bad case of OCD…at least they are not calling it rap or country so relax and enjoy it …read more