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Hammer Of The Witches
''Hammer of the Witches'' is the eleventh studio album by English extreme metal band Cradle of Filth. It was released on 10 July 2015 and is their first release under record label Nuclear Blast. ''Hammer of the Witches'' features the band's new line-up following the departure of Paul Allender and James McIlroy, which includes new guitarists Marek 'Ashok' Šmerda and Richard Shaw and new keyboardist and female vocalist Lindsay Schoolcraft. Background ''Hammer of the Witches'' is the first Cradle of Filth album since 1998's '' Cruelty and the Beast'' to not feature work from longtime guitarist Paul Allender. Work on the album began in early 2014, with frontman Dani emphasizing that the band planned on taking their time with it. In an interview in 2016, Lindsay Schoolcraft stated that she was pleased with the fan-response and that the band had actually finished work on the album quicker than they had expected to. Cover art Vocalist Dani Filth stated: "The artwork for ''Hammer of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 lyrical themes and imagery are heavily influenced by Gothic literature, poetry, mythology and horror films. The band consists of its founding member, vocalist Dani Filth, drummer Martin "Marthus" Škaroupka, bassist Daniel Firth, guitarists Marek "Ashok" Šmerda and Donny Burbage, and keyboardist Zoe Marie Federoff. 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 Festival, Download and even the mainstream Sziget Festival. They have sometimes been perceived as Satanism, Satanic by casual observers, even though their lyrical reference ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AllMusic
AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online database, online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on Musical artist, musicians and Musical ensemble, bands. Initiated in 1991, the database was first made available on the Internet in 1994. AllMusic is owned by RhythmOne. History AllMusic was launched as ''All-Music Guide'' by Michael Erlewine, a "compulsive archivist, noted astrologer, Buddhist scholar, and musician". He became interested in using computers for his astrological work in the mid-1970s and founded a software company, Matrix, in 1977. In the early 1990s, as compact discs (CDs) replaced LP record, LPs and cassette (format), cassettes as the dominant format for recorded music, Erlewine purchased what he thought was a CD of early recordings by Little Richard. After buying it, he discovered it was a "flaccid latter-day rehash". Frustrated with the labeling, he res ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Marthus Škaroupka
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Dani Filth
Daniel Lloyd Davey (born 25 July 1973), known professionally as Dani Filth, is an English singer who is the lead vocalist, lyricist and founding member of the extreme metal band Cradle of Filth. Personal life Daniel Lloyd Davey was born to Susan Janet Moore and Laurence John Davey in Hertford and is the eldest child of four. He married Toni King on 31 October 2005 in Ipswich. The couple have a daughter. Separated since 2018, he is currently engaged to Russian-born, Ipswich-based tattoo artist Sofiya Belousova, after proposing to her at the Download Festival 2025. Career Dani Filth's present and primary band is Cradle of Filth. He also has been lending his voice to the band Devilment, 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 Judas Priest, Venom (band), Venom, Emperor (Norwegian band ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dusk And Her Embrace
''Dusk... and Her Embrace'' is the second studio album by English extreme metal band Cradle of Filth. It was released on 28 August 1996. and is their first release on the label Music for Nations. Background Much of the material for the album was written while the band were still under Cacophonous Records' contract. Speaking to Ryan Bird of ''Kerrang!'' in 2008, Dani Filth remembered: Filth later told ''Kerrang!'' that the tone and content of the record was also partly the result of Cradle's isolation from the European black metal scene: The album climaxes with a guest speech from Venom's Cronos on the final track, "Haunted Shores". Release ''Dusk and Her Embrace'' was released on 28 August 1996 by record label Music for Nations. It charted just outside of the UK top 100, at 107. Critical reception Critical reception of this album has been generally positive. AllMusic wrote: "''Dusk and Her Embrace'' may be radle of Filth's/nowiki> finest moment." In 2021, it was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
YouTube
YouTube is an American social media and online video sharing platform owned by Google. YouTube was founded on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim who were three former employees of PayPal. Headquartered in San Bruno, California, it is the second-most-visited website in the world, after Google Search. In January 2024, YouTube had more than 2.7billion monthly active users, who collectively watched more than one billion hours of videos every day. , videos were being uploaded to the platform at a rate of more than 500 hours of content per minute, and , there were approximately 14.8billion videos in total. On November 13, 2006, YouTube was purchased by Google for $1.65 billion (equivalent to $ billion in ). Google expanded YouTube's business model of generating revenue from advertisements alone, to offering paid content such as movies and exclusive content produced by and for YouTube. It also offers YouTube Premium, a paid subs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darkly, Darkly, Venus Aversa
''Darkly, Darkly, Venus Aversa'' is the ninth studio album by English extreme metal band Cradle of Filth. It was released on 1 November 2010 by record label Peaceville and is a concept album centred on the demon Lilith. It is Cradle of Filth's only album to feature keyboardist Ashley Ellyllon, and is also the band's final album with Dave Pybus as their bass player and James McIlroy as their second guitar player. Background Prior to its release the album was erroneously referred to as ''All Hallows Eve'', probably because the announced release date was close to Halloween. Concept and musical style ''Darkly, Darkly, Venus Aversa'' is a concept album in the same vein as its predecessor ''Godspeed on the Devil's Thunder'', this time centering on the demon Lilith, the first wife of the biblical Adam. Dani Filth revealed to ''Metal Hammer'' in September 2010 that it would be a "feminine" companion piece to ''Godspeed'', "which was a very masculine album, obviously due to its prota ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Record Collector
''Record Collector'' is a British monthly music magazine focussing on rare and collectable records, and the bands who recorded them. It was founded in September 1979 and distributes worldwide. It is promoted as "the world’s leading authority on rare and collectable records" and claims to be currently "the UK’s longest-running music magazine". History Music journalist and publisher Sean O'Mahony, under the pen name Johnny Dean, had published an official Beatles magazine, '' The Beatles Book'' (also known as ''Beatles Monthly''), from 1963 to 1969. In May 1976 O'Mahony started reprinting it, enclosing it in eight pages of new information about the Beatles along with small ads, in a magazine he named ''The Beatles Book Appreciation Society Magazine''. The interest shown in the small ads of ''The Beatles Book Appreciation Society Magazine'' for records and memorabilia of bands other than the Beatles led O'Mahony to launch ''Record Collector'' in Sept 1979, along with a copy of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MetalSucks
MetalSucks is an American heavy metal music Heavy metal (or simply metal) is a Music genre, genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom and United States. With roots in blues rock, psychedelic rock and acid rock, heavy metal band ...-themed news website. The site features reviews, interviews, information on the latest metal releases and blog-like posts from the writers, most notably Vince Neilstein and Axl Rosenberg. History The website was founded in December 2006 by authors Ben Umanov and Matthew Goldenberg. In a 2012 interview to Invisible Oranges Vince Neilstein (Umanov's pen name) recalled that he and Axl Rosenberg (Goldenberg's pen name) have been friends since childhood, and the blog started as a WordPress site. In, 2009, MetalSucks had leaked the album ''Axe to Fall'' by Converge (band), Converge onto the internet prior two weeks before its official release, and had assumed responsibility for doing so. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kerrang!
''Kerrang!'' is a British music webzine and quarterly magazine that primarily covers rock, punk and heavy metal music. Since 2017, the magazine has been published by Wasted Talent Ltd (the same company that owns electronic music publication '' Mixmag''). The magazine was named onomatopoeically after the sound of a "guitar being struck with force". ''Kerrang!'' was first published on 6 June 1981 as a one-off "Heavy Metal Special" from the now-defunct '' Sounds'' newspaper. Due to the popularity of the issue, the magazine became a monthly publication, before transitioning into a weekly in 1987. Initially devoted to the new wave of British heavy metal and the rise of hard rock acts, ''Kerrang!'' musical emphasis has changed several times, focusing on grunge, nu metal, post-hardcore, emo and other alternative rock and metal genres over the course of its forty-year publication history. In 2001, it became the best-selling British music weekly, overtaking '' NME''. After p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Guardian
''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in Manchester in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'' and changed its name in 1959, followed by a move to London. Along with its sister paper, ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Guardian Media Group, owned by the Scott Trust Limited. The trust was created in 1936 to "secure the financial and editorial independence of ''The Guardian'' in perpetuity and to safeguard the journalistic freedom and liberal values of ''The Guardian'' free from commercial or political interference". The trust was converted into a limited company in 2008, with a constitution written so as to maintain for ''The Guardian'' the same protections as were built into the structure of the Scott Trust by its creators. Profits are reinvested in its journalism rather than distributed to owners or shareholders. It is considered a newspaper of record in the UK. The editor-in-chief Katharine Viner succeeded Alan Rusbridger in 2015. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
