Cradle Of Filth: nuovo album a ottobre, guarda il video del primo estratto ‘Crawling King Chaos’

I Cradle Of Filth hanno annunciato il loro 13esimo album: “Existence Is Futile”. Il nuovo lavoro uscirà il prossimo 22 ottobre tramite Nuclear Blast. Registrato presso i Grindstone Studios in Suffolk, è stato prodotto da Scott Atkins (Devilment/Benediction/Vader). Contestualmente all’annuncio, la band ha pubblicato il nuovo video, ‘Crawling King Chaos’, diretto da Vicente Cordero.

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Belched from Hell’s depths into the rustic charms of the Witch County, Suffolk, thirty long and disturbing years ago, CRADLE OF FILTH are undisputed giants of the Heavy Metal realm. Imperious purveyors of a perennially unique strain of dark, dastardly and wilfully extreme metal, with deep roots in the worlds of gothic horror and occult curiosity, the band led by Dani Filth has weathered three decades of tumult and trial, earning a formidable reputation as both a singular creative force and one of the most riotously entertaining live bands the metal world has ever produced.

“The album is about existentialism, existential dread and fear of the unknown,” frontman Dani Filth explains. “The concept wasn’t created by the pandemic. We’d written it long before that began, but the pandemic is the tip of the cotton-bud as far as the way the world is headed, you know? I guess the title, »Existence Is Futile«, does sound a little morbid. But again, it’s more about recognising that truth and saying that everything is permitted because nothing really matters, which mimics the occultist Aleister Crowley’s maxim. We all know we’re going to die, so we might as well indulge life while we possess it. The final track on the album – ‘Us, Dark, Invincible’ – really drives that point home. Also, the artwork for this record was created by the Latvian visionary Arthur Berzinsh, who also dressed the last two albums, and that reeks of the exceedingly beautiful yet apocalyptic too.”

Diehard fans will be thrilled to learn that horror icon Doug ‘Pinhead’ Bradley makes a welcome return to the CRADLE fold, lending his dulcet tones to the band’s most polictically astute song to date, the epic ‘Suffer Our Dominion’ as well as the album bonus track ‘Sisters Of The Mist’, which is the conclusion to the ‘Her Ghost In The Fog’ trilogy that started over 20 years ago on the infamous and classic “Midian“.

“Existence Is Futile” will be available in the following formats:
– CD jewelcase
– CD digipak (incl. 2 bonus tracks)
– Collector’s edition boxset including digipak, 2LP in gatefold, necklace with band symbol pendant, 5 buttons, flag with album artwork, lyric sheet from Dani Filth (also available as strictly limited NB mailorder edition featuring an alternative cover artwork)
– 2 LP in gatefold with 2 bonus tracks:
Black
Picture
Glow in the dark
Red+yellow marbled (NB mailorder excl.)
Purple + black marbled (UK exclusive)
Silver + black splatter (US exclusive)
Blue transparent (EMP excl.)
White + black marbled (Revolver excl.)
– cassette tape (US exclusive)

“Existence Is Futile” consists of 12 new tracks with a total playing time of 54 minutes:
The Fate Of The World On Our Shoulders
Existential Terror
Necromantic Fantasies
Crawling King Chaos
Here Comes A Candle… (Infernal Lullaby)
Black Smoke Curling From The Lips Of War
Discourse Between A Man And His Soul
The Dying Of The Embers
Ashen Mortality
How Many Tears To Nurture A Rose?
Suffer Our Dominion
Us, Dark, Invincible
Sisters Of The Mist (Bonus track)
Unleash The Hellion (Bonus track)

So, if we’re all going to perish in the fire of our own stupidity, we might as well have a suitably deranged and destructive soundtrack to do it by.

CRADLE OF FILTH, 2021 A.D., are:
Dani Filth | Vocals
Richard Shaw | Guitar
Ashok | Guitar
Daniel Firth | Bass
Martin ‘Marthus’ Skaroupka | Drums
Anabelle | Female vocals, keys, lyre & orchestration

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