Daniel Lloyd Davey (born 25 July 1973), known professionally as Dani Filth, is a British singer who is the vocalist, lyricist and founding member of the extreme metal band

Cradle of Filth Cradle of Filth are an English extreme metal band formed in Suffolk 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 ly ...

. He has a five-octave

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Personal life

Daniel Lloyd Davey was born to Susan Janet Moore and Laurence John Davey in

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and is the eldest child of four. He married his wife Toni on 31 October 2005 in

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. The couple have a daughter, Luna. Filth and Toni have been separated since 2018.

Career

Dani Filth's present and primary band is Cradle of Filth. He also has been lending his voice to the band

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, a side project that has taken off into a full-time job in between Cradle records. His earliest bands were Carnival Fruitcake, The Lemon Grove Kids, PDA, Feast on Excrement, the Bondage Boys, and Hash Gordon and the Drug Barons. He named

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, Sabbat, Misfits,

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and

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's ''

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'' among his major influences. At the age of eighteen, Filth took up a job at a Chinese restaurant. He later chose his career in music over an internship at a newspaper, although his "Dani's Inferno" column ran for two years in ''

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'' during the late 1990s. He has co-written and released '' The Gospel of Filth'' with

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. The book, which Filth describes as an "occult study," features contributions from Clive Barker,

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and Ingrid Pierson. He had been accused many times of being a

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, but has denounced such rumours, claiming instead to being "more of a Luciferian." Away from Cradle, Filth appeared on the '' Roadrunner United'' CD in 2005 (contributing vocals to "Dawn of a Golden Age"), and recorded the song "(She's) The Mother of Tears" with

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and Simonetti's band Daemonia, for the soundtrack of

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's film '' The Mother of Tears''. Filth participated in the Temple of the Black Moon project in 2012 with guitarist Rob Caggiano, black metal musician King ov Hell on bass, and drummer

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. The supergroup aimed to combine rawer, extreme metal with the softer more melodious sounds of progressive rock, describing the band's sound as a "cross between

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and

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". Filth has also released two albums with

since 2014. His high-profile has led to a handful of film and television roles. In 2003, he provided the voice of the eponymous main character in the feature-length animation '' Dominator''. Moreover, Filth has appeared numerous times on British television, most notably 1998's ''Living With the Enemy'', '' Never Mind the Buzzcocks'' in 2001, ''Big Brother's Big Mouth'' in 2008. He has also appeared on the American series '' Viva La Bam'' in 2005, and was interviewed for two episodes of the '' Metal Evolution'' series, on shock rock and extreme metal in 2012 and 2014 respectively. He was ranked 95 in the

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's Top 100 Metal Vocalists of All Time. Scottish

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band Party Cannon dedicated Dani the song "I Believe in Dani Filth", released in December 2021 with an animated version of Dani in a ''

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''-styled video.

''Cradle of Fear''

In 2000, Filth appeared in the movie '' Cradle of Fear'' as The Man, a deranged

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taking revenge on his father's persecutors. ''Cradle of Fear'' unfolds four stories all linked by the thread of an incarcerated child killer wreaking vengeance on those responsible for his imprisonment. The movie's

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on some posters was, "It's not ''if'' they die... It's ''how''...".

Discography

Cradle of Filth

: *''

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'' (1994) *'' Dusk... and Her Embrace'' (1996) *'' Cruelty and the Beast'' (1998) *''

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'' (2000) *'' Damnation and a Day'' (2003) *'' Nymphetamine'' (2004) *'' Thornography'' (2006) *''

Godspeed on the Devil's Thunder ''Godspeed on the Devil's Thunder'' (subtitled ''The Life and Crimes of Gilles de Rais'') is the eighth studio album by English extreme metal band Cradle of Filth. It was released on 28 October 2008, through record label Roadrunner. It is the ba ...

'' (2008) *'' Darkly, Darkly, Venus Aversa'' (2010) *'' The Manticore and Other Horrors'' (2012) *'' Hammer of the Witches'' (2015) *'' Cryptoriana – The Seductiveness of Decay'' (2017) *'' Existence Is Futile'' (2021)

Devilment

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'' (2014) *''Devilment II – The Mephisto Waltzes'' (2016)

Guest appearances

Christian Death Christian Death is an American rock band formed in Los Angeles County, California, in 1979 by Rozz Williams. With major line-up changes over the years, Christian Death has retained "a relentlessly confrontational stand against organized religi ...

– "Zodiac (He Is Still Out There...)" and "Peek a Boo" from the album ''Born Again Anti Christian'' (2000) * Obsidian – "Massada" from the ''On the Path of Others We Feed'' (EP) (2000) * '' Roadrunner United'' (2005) – Lead vocals on "Dawn of a Golden Age" *

– " Mater Lacrimarum" from '' The Third Mother'' Soundtrack (2007) * Sarah Jezebel Deva – "This Is My Curse" from the ''Malediction'' (EP) (2012) * Motionless in White – "Puppets 3 (The Grand Finale)" from the album ''

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'' (2014) * Schoolcraft – "Fading Star" (2014) * Simone Simons – "The Creator and the Destroyer" from the rock opera ''

Karmaflow ''Karmaflow: The Rock Opera Videogame'' is an interactive rock opera video game developed by Dutch studio BaseCamp Games and features singers from bands such as DragonForce, Cradle of Filth, Epica, Sonata Arctica, and Arch Enemy. The symphonic so ...

'' (2015) * Eastern Front – "Crimson Mourn" from the album ''EmpirE'' (2016) *

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– " Wonderful Life" from the album '' Amo'' (2019) (#35 US Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks) *

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– "Neon Vamp" from the album ''Unlikely Prescription'' (2021)

References

External links

Official Cradle of Filth siteInterview with Dani Filth at SuicideGirls.com
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Filth, Dani 1973 births 20th-century English male singers 20th-century English singers 21st-century English male singers 21st-century English singers Cradle of Filth members Singers with a five-octave vocal range English heavy metal singers English Luciferians English rock singers Living people People from Hertford Musicians from Ipswich Musicians from Hertfordshire Musicians from Suffolk