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[Music] greetings everybody this is Danny filth from Cradle of Filth and you're listening to Sonic perspectives [Music] Hello everybody welcome back to Sonic perspectives this is Jonathan and I am here with the man himself the Visionary who originally sated our voracious appetite for voluptuous vixens of the vampiric persuasion Danny Phil filth how you doing I'm cool that just rolled off the tongue that didn't it yeah I've seen V for Vendetta a few too many times all right so um to get right down to it we have got a new album that's about a little less than two months out I think um so let's just jump right into it uh any uh details that you want to reveal without giving away too many spoilers um well there's a new video coming out uh next week I believe um it should have come out two weeks ago with the release of the second single but unfortunately it was being filmed in La at the time of the fires so they had to evacuate and it was only actually filmed filed um last week and I L just signed off the edit for it today um so that'll be coming out and there'll be a third video for the song White hore that will accompany the album release on March 2 first wow all right so we got some stuff to look forward to in the meantime that's great yeah so um basically um were there any changes as far as like the production of the album any changes in person personel from behind the control panel I know there's been a few lineup changes since the last album yeah no it's the same we Ed the same producer we just utilize different techniques and of course writing new songs um yeah uh Scott Atkins is our resident producer and I say resident because he's worked with us probably for the last 15 years um he's very close to where I live in England uh in in the countryside and um he is involved since you know since the embryonic stages of writing a record and uh he helped steer the ship he's one of those people that doesn't stand on um uh well put it this way he doesn't mix words so if it's [ __ ] he will tell you it [ __ ] which is great um because everybody needs that um like uh maybe Metallica could do with a bit of that and all um but the point of it is uh he's very um a stew very creative and he gets the best out of everybody and we feel comfortable working with him so um obviously if it's not broken don't try and fix it um and uh yeah I mean it's a new album new techniques new ways of recording um new plugins that sort of thing uh yeah and the production's great so it doesn't really matter yeah absolutely so the name of the album is um that just slipped my mind there the screaming of the Valkyries and uh that didn't have anything to do with the recent acquisition of a particular keyboardist and backing vocalist did it well I I uh Zoe always struck me as a bit of a valkyrie or at least she okay I see what you mean yeah absolutely I mean well she's she's uh I believe she just come well I say literally it was three weeks ago but I came back from her wedding to our other guitarist as shock uh in um Arizona so she's from Arizona but she's got Finnish Heritage as you can tell by the the the bleach blonde hair um well not bleach blond it's her natural hair sorry it looks like that but um no the the title despite sounding very heavy metal um I'm ashamed to admit is uh influenced by I don't know the political turmoil in the world um in respect of if you were to hear the screaming of the Valkyries as a metaphor or in in actuality it would be um you would know that it was Ragnarok it was the end of days because it would be heaven was being overrun our last you know source of protection would be o being overrun and destroyed um and that was inspired by the fact that we're very very even infinitely more closer to the Midnight Hour on the Doomsday Clock um at present and obviously that's you know fueled by um the war in Ukraine and Russia whatever [ __ ] North Korea are doing at the moment the tensions between China and Taiwan uh uh Palestine and Israel you know I mean the inauguration of Donald Trump and his reaction to all of this so yeah yeah temperamental times and yeah I guess that's where the um Al kind of not the album but that title came from and it was a again like I said it was also a very good heavy metal title and fitted uh the artwork that adorns the artwork because I gave it to the artist with the lyrics and said do your worst now his worse was pretty damn good if you ask me but yeah so um does the album itself carry like a recurring theme that relates to uh sort of the tomal of the day or is it was that that more of just a general statement each song is sort of its own story it's his own story our modus operandi for this record was to dispense with the idea of a special edition or bonus tracks that uh you can only get on a you know in timbuk 2 or something like that GNA get what we've written that's it you know this is the 70s or 80s we've written a lengthy album but it's nine songs no intro no outro no you know like uh halfway [ __ ] video display of the Super Bowl in the middle it's just the album and it's a good album and we just wrote it we WR nine very strong catchy Tunes um and when when I was presented with some of the uh embryonic stages of the tracks most of them immediately struck up a cord with me and I was like well I know what that's going to be about I know what that's going to be about non on this Moria I know what that song is going to be about so um an overarching theme that unites uh the tracks but it isn't a concept record everybody thinks we're going to do a conceptual record every time we haven't done one for like 15 years I think but like King Diamond everybody thinks that's our thing yeah and everybody complains whenever he tries to get out of it too and admittedly uh I'm not going to blow any smoke up your ass and say I've been following you since the uh since the early 90s because I was a 10er old age of 12 at that time but I did first get into you guys with damn nation in a day and was that the last concept album that you actually did or uh no there was two more after that the US Ray one uh God speed on the devil's Thunder and then uh the one about Lilith um the first trespasser which was Darkly Darkly Venus Versa ah all right so um as far as the songwriting goes it it did seem a little bit more um I guess you could say more streamlined a little bit more in your face uh was there any difference in who was handling the songwriting duties who was doing the arranging or was it kind of the same breakdown and just a different mindset we've got a different lineup and yeah um I I should imagine the new guys uh with their would be pushing their entry level cradle Inspirations to the four you know because they were fans before they joined the band um and new blood is is good all the way around you know it injects a fresh perspective on everything and you know as a band we we can sort of um self- cannibalize ourselves because you know we created this sound and if we want to Har back to some that uh music that is you know reminiscent of some of our earlier works and then so be it but um we always have one eye on the future um and when people join the band they obviously expected to wear many hats and obviously the most important one is that you have to ride you know you're not a pretty face and it's everybody else's job um and so yeah the album was written by everybody and um we had fun with it I think it's also a product of the fact that the last three years we've been pretty much on the road 24/7 the album itself was it took a year to recall because of that because we' like we do the drums then we'd be away for eight weeks we'd have a little bit of time off then we come to do the guitars and then we go on tour again so that was kind of unique to the way we um we finished the record as well great yeah and uh as far as uh the individual songs go I'll try to stick mostly the ones that are already out so again uh as few of spoilers as possible uh to live deliciously this was the first one I got a chance to hear and um I mean for me that's a stake and again us every night but I think you intended something a little bit uh deeper than that when you wrote the song so could you get into the lyrical content of that one it's just a it's a it's a a life Mantra you know it's about I guess it's like uh everything is permissible you can do whatever you want uh human laws are just you know that they they're they're made by the majority um and generally you know life is here to be embraced while while we have it but not at the cost of um you know treading on other people's toes you have to have a little bit of respect I.E don't be a [ __ ] that's I that's the the the the moral compass here but yeah just live life to the fall even and obviously you're talking about a band that has sort of a dark Obsession so um I guess it has a little bit of a Marky desar quality to it as well but we wanted something that was to introduce the album on a positive note um so yeah it's like a life code a mantra to live deliciously to indulge desire and darken I gotcha and then um one of the other songs in here that I really enjoyed and I'm just going to touch on briefly because it's not one of the uh singles uh non omnis morar uh probably the closest thing to a lullabi I've ever heard from you guys and definitely earworm material probably more more so than even the Wrath of Khan so uh was there anything yeah got it yeah anything unique about the songwriting process there anybody you have a little bit more input that hadn't before or well we were attempting with the album to make every track an ear worm but um sorry none on this Mario I mean that was one of the first songs like I said that um when I heard the original composition I was like I know what this song's going to be about and non- ominous Moria means um not all of me will die meaning that I will leave something with you I leave my heart with you um and it's uh I guess it's someone talking to their nearest and dearest their closest their loved one uh cherished person a friend they hold deeply uh on the deathbed saying look I'm dying but we'll meet again our friendship or our love is so strong it will survive the grave and trust me there's an after life whe whatever it is we'll find each other there that's one beautiful lamentation if I do say so myself so uh anyway just to get into a little bit of um and you'll forgive again the uh the pun here but you've been a hot topic for over 30 years right now and I'm night yeah 30 more uh years of wear and tear on The Voice and yet you're still tearing it up I can actually remember first seeing the uh music video for her ghost in the fog and my mom overheard it and she said uh well they look like vampires but what's with all the high-pitch screaming I'm like Mom they got to break all the mirrors so nobody knows so um over the years have you had any difficulties in maintaining your voice and uh particularly in a live setting is it difficult to pull some of that stuff off no no not at all I mean I yeah years have just brought wisdom and uh I I see a a a a a doctor who does well he's more of a singing coach doctor thing you know he does all this vocal manipulation to and the one time I had a big problem was uh back in 2008 and we were no sorry 2006 we were writing oh we'd written an album we were in the studio and my voice just didn't work and they brought in um a vocal coach Melissa Cross from America and then they even got me to see a um uh like someone who you know tests your blood and what food you eat and that and just by pure chance of going to see a a a a a vocal doctor like to to put one of those steep you know those whever they do they put that thing down your throat it's horrible camera he said you know I can't see anything wrong but I tell you what here's a number cuz I saw someone not so long ago who was um an opera singer and I I sent them along to this person and I went to see this Jewish guy who literally just dealt with opera singers and people on Broad well not Broadway but the English equivalent of that the West End and it turned out had like tennis elbow of the throat I just was singing from the wrong part and I was overwearing it like turning a car battery over continuously or being in the wrong gear and he corrected that and I haven't looked back since um yeah and it's it's it's a it's a thing that hits a lot of people where they you know they haven't mastered their their the Machinery of what they do and they're kind of like just ragging it like over revving uh and when they know where it's from and they readjust it um it all kind of fell in Pace not saying that I'm you know um averse to to wear and tear but over the years you learn how to deal with it uh I have my what works for me like people say you should write book about it and I said well it would be very thin and also what works for me doesn't work for anybody else I've ever spoke to other than you know steaming and you know special teas and drinking black current as opposed to water that dries you out and avoiding alcohol and you know the usual stuff I say it's just when I explain to people how I sing they go [ __ ] I can't do that and I'm amazed as well by you know some of these new people that come out with these weird [ __ ] frog and pig vocals I'm like wow that's that's bizarre but um yeah each to their own yeah I definitely prefer at least being able to understand what's being said even if the voice I found over the years like people say that oh my you more brutal back in you like well yeah but you know what it's actually and this is the truth of it all the harder to do this with pronunciation to make it legible is 20 times harder maybe more than just you know going full out and sounding like you know a tortured Pig and uh making it illegible to make it legible and you know people can hear it is is is the trick is and It's Tricky and that's one of the thing I noticed all the uh the original GRS of both the death and black metal there was definitely intelligibility there sometimes you had to adjust your ears a little bit but whether it was David Vincent or if it was Ison I don't know if I'm pronouncing his name right that right you could you could pretty much understand what was being said and on that note I just wanted to ask you uh straight out what exactly would you call the specific stylistic Niche that Cradle of Filth has because everybody seems to have a different label for it I you know what the the the ultimate Accolade would be to be just remembered you know post band you know disseminating or whatever um would just be known by your name because and I know it's a big leap but IR Maiden Metallica For example they go oh have you ever heard of that new wave of British well it used to be new wave of British heavy metal slash thrash Bay Area thrash slash you know ban Metallica you don't need to know what music are you know by the definition of their title it's become almost like a its own little power source the same with Iron Maiden you know what you you know it says what it does on the tin you don't have to go into to a diagnosis even with people are into Taylor Swift they've heard of the band so that would be the biggest Accolade because basically when and with this album as well when we write music we don't think you know what by this algorithm we now need to add to this you know mathematical equation 20% death metal 30% goth It Rock uh a little bit new wave of but we don't look at it like that we write music and if it work it works and if it sounds good it sounds good yeah definitely and I think the original progator progenitors excuse me of those Styles thought of it the same way I don't think I think it was more people like me coming up with labels to try to understand what we were hearing I think it's Rec stores coming up with labels so you can find where the the records are lying but they're getting fewer and far between now aren't they definitely yeah and I think it's measured now Less in unit sold than it is minutes spent listening and uh exactly as you can see this is real this isn't this isn't a a zoom background I I'm I'm all for that I'm not I mean just I owe it to to my brethren in in metal and music not to have a [ __ ] Spotify account because you know they don't pay people and it's not just them it's just Platforms in general and I appreciate the fact that from that people can discover you from another band and you know whatever whatever whatever whatever I've heard it a million times but I'm old school I want CDs I want vinyl I want my bands to be paid because if they're not paid they're not bands anymore and I know so many people from Big bands that since the you know the pandemic have gone you know what I'm taking a proper job so that you'll see me less often you know we'll still be doing albums but you know probably once every five years um because the you know music has just been it's just see like day robbery like if you worked you know if you owned a a a delicatessen or a [ __ ] Supermarket even people can't aren't allowed to just come in and help themselves to free produce you know which is what people think they're entitled to do with music because it's a periphery thing and it's in the air you can't physically touch music but um you know how do you expect bands to survive without that okay yeah sure music getting bigger and bigger but that's because the Taylor Swifts of the world and the you know the Ed Sheeran whom we've just done a song with um are everywhere if you work in a Del tesin or you work on a building site and you've got the radio on you know chances are you can hear one of those two or beonce or whatever or you know Megan the salum within [ __ ] five minutes of putting it on and it's kind of a mind control because you're adjusted to that you remember those songs because that's all you hear yeah I mean speaking for myself I always saw radio the same way back in the 90s and so I ended up amassing a personal collection of about 2,000 CDs I'm proud to say that around rough roughly 10 of them are yours and um I I definitely missed the days where there were uh physical charts proper charts so you knew you know what happened to the 80s charts now you can have like Taylor Swift literally having all top 10 you Know M it's a it's a really weird uh really weird setup um obviously you know they they really try with um movies and there's more money involved in movies obviously but in England we used to have these not up to very recently this whole um advert that had before the movie starts where video piracy is killing the movie industry and they even go to the point where they'd this slamming prison do you know wolof in IMAX quality sound you know THX you're going to prison if you you know watch a bootleg movie but not the same for for you know I know they back in the day it was home taping is killing music but nowadays it's like a [ __ ] freefor all yeah you figure at some point something's going to have to give because I do still think there are plenty people of uh plenty of people out there who want a medal scene that's actually intact but right now people I think the metal scene is probably one of the most um you know loyal and also one of the most um agitated scenes you know everybody hate of that band I love Arch Enemy do you what about inflames oh no they're [ __ ] [ __ ] you know so the metal scene so carnivorous um so cannibalistic yet probably the most loyal um and yeah PE people in they want to they wear their hearts on the sleeves they wear their their bands on their battle jackets and they will they'll go and buy you know the blood splattered vinyl or you know they'll buy the special edition if there was one yeah absolutely and um on that note I think we you had mentioned this briefly your name dropped Iron Maiden and I'm G to do this just as a a favor to a buddy of mine oh years back you did a rather impressive cover of Hallowed be thy name I think it was a a bonus track on cruelty and the Beast uh and um has that been rolled out recently in in any live performances or is that something you just kind of put on the back burner after the 90s well actually no though we we were touring um C in the Beast because we did a remist which was a a remastered we took the original album and totally stripped it back and and bought it Kicking and Screaming into the into the present day and uh subsequently went out and on tour in support of that and played the whole of the album and hello be thy name oh right and uh because we we decided to put that on the REM mistress version as well um because we knew how much people loved it um so yeah we have played it a lot apart from Dallas Dallas was horrible Dallas was where somebody start like it was one of the first shows of the tour and uh are um a rather overzealous enigmatic um stage hand decided to run the intro for that before anybody was near the stage oh I came on and was like where I thought the queue was started singing and then suddenly the band K had to kick in I was like what the [ __ ] but yeah fortunately that was the only mistake we made and uh yeah good fun playing that song yeah great yeah my my buddy his name is Jason he's been a long time fan of yours he caught you on I think you were oest I think it was back in the 90s I think he was at uh uh I'm trying to remember this was before iest it was it was actually 2003 2003 that's it yeah and I don't I I think uh he was waiting to hear that one and I think that wasn't in the rotation at the time so so he was kind of pulling on my ear we only we only had like you know we were headlining the B stage we had like what 45 minutes or something 50 minutes so we're gonna keep to own stuff you know yeah that definitely makes sense so um moving back to the album itself uh I know we've we've got an April release date um uh what's the touring situation looking like surrounding the album anything leading up to it or immediately following it uh what are the plans well we've got a few months off at the moment because we've been very very busy the last three years um but it's not really time off because obviously I'm sat here doing interviews I say there's some videos to come before the release of the album on the 21st of March and then mid April uh we co-headline with dying fetus the chaos chaos and Carnage touring Festival across the states then we come to Europe and we have like we headline the the 10th stage at download Donnington um and do a bunch of summer festivals a load of gigs that link those up with uh the great band Noosa in support then we go to South America um late August through September and then we have something amazing planned for the end of the year but I can't talk about it because I'll jinx it yeah definitely not don't give too much away though we gotta have a little bit of mystiques around in the band here all right so um are there any other things that you wanted to say uh do a quick shout out to the fans or anything before we wrap because I think Zoom is biting on my heels here about yeah I was just doing an interview and I was really getting into this this this description and the [ __ ] thing just went halfway through and just cut off and it just sorry your um your Zoom interview has ended wow um yeah um well no the like I said the album's coming out we've got loads of live [ __ ] coming out uh to livep deliciously the video for that should be out even next week or the week after delayed because of the fires in La was being shot um and then the third video will come out uh mid-march um check us out go to Instagram or our Facebook pages because they'll have all the news of all the shows we'll be doing for the next two years um yeah I can't say much more than that but go and check out the new Alum the screaming of the Valkyries it rocks absolutely my American fans theck hell yes all my fellow Americans out there buy this album just because you're a yank doesn't mean you have to be a wank get off of spotify and buy this sucker could said it better myself all right well thanks a lot Danny I hope I didn't come off as too much of a fanboy here trying to keep it semi-professional at least I know enjoy it when people are actually into it you know all right great stuff all right well uh I'll try to catch you on the road uh and uh definitely going to check this album out and who knows maybe I'll be able to pen a review for it cool yeah let to see you out on the road thanks every so much all right thank you and take care Jonathan you too bye bye