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Nymphetamine
''Nymphetamine'' is the sixth studio album by English extreme metal band Cradle of Filth. Recorded between February and July 2004, it was released on 28 September by record label Roadrunner Records, Roadrunner. ''Nymphetamine'' marks the first recorded appearance of guitarist James McIlroy (musician), James McIlroy on a Cradle of Filth album. He would later record guitar for the band's 2010 release ''Darkly, Darkly, Venus Aversa''. ''Nymphetamine'' is also the band's final album to feature keyboardist Martin Powell. Content The title is a portmanteau of "wikt:nymphette, nymphette" and "amphetamine", and Dani Filth explained it as referring to "a drug-like Substance dependence, addiction to the woman in question, with her insidious vampire qualities literally bringing her lover back from the brink of the spiritual grave, only to bury him further on the strength of a whim. This is very Edgar Allan Poe in style, and leaves one thinking that, despite the character's inner agonies, ... [...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] |
Thornography
''Thornography'' is the seventh studio album by English extreme metal band Cradle of Filth. It was released on 17 October 2006, by record label Roadrunner. It was produced by former Anthrax guitarist Rob Caggiano, engineered by Dan Turner and mixed by Andy Sneap, and once again features narration by Doug Bradley (as with '' Midian'' and ''Nymphetamine''). It is Cradle of Filth's second album as a five-piece, as keyboardist Martin Powell left the band in 2005. This would also be the band's final album to feature drummer Adrian Erlandsson, and the only full-length to feature guitarist Charles Hedger. Content Album title Dani Filth explained the album's title in 2006: This title represents mankind's obsession with sin and self. The thorn combines images of that which troubled Christ, the Crown of Thorns, thus intimating man's seeming desire to hurt God and also of the protecting thorn and the need to enclose a secret place or the soul from attack. An addiction to sel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liv Kristine
Liv Kristine Espenæs (born 14 February 1976) is a Norwegian singer who has performed and composed songs mostly for various subgenres of heavy metal music. She started her career in the music industry as a vocalist for the gothic metal band Theatre of Tragedy, and is the former lead vocalist for the symphonic metal band Leaves' Eyes. She is known for her work in close association with her then-husband and leader of the German band Atrocity (band), Atrocity, Alexander Krull. Currently she is a singer of a German band Midnattsol alongside her younger sister Carmen Elise Espenæs. She also released a number of solo albums in various genres. Career Kristine was born in Stavanger, and joined the Norwegian gothic metal band Theatre of Tragedy in 1994 as a backup singer, but was soon sharing lead vocals duties with Raymond István Rohonyi. She was fired from Theatre of Tragedy in 2003, a fact she learned about via an e-mail. She had been living in Germany since 1996 and collaborating wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James McIlroy (musician)
James McIlroy (born 7 December 1977) is an English heavy metal guitarist. He was born in King's Lynn, Norfolk, grew up in Belgium before returning to England in 1996. He started his professional playing career in 2002. Career A guitarist in the English extreme metal band Cradle of Filth from 2003 until 2005, McIlroy played on the ''Nymphetamine'' album and special edition, as well as appearing on the ''Mannequin'' and '' Peace Through Superior Firepower'' DVDs. He originally auditioned for the position in late 2002, and toured extensively for the '' Damnation and a Day'' and ''Nymphetamine'' albums, as well as appearances at the 2003 Ozzfest and Viva La Bam (2005), before leaving to pursue academia and work on other projects, his own band Chaosanct, as well as becoming part of the Order of Apollyon and English goth rock band NFD. In 2009, he returned for the second leg of Cradle of Filth's European Godspeed on the Devil's Thunder Tour. McIlroy currently plays in his own band ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Damnation And A Day
''Damnation and a Day'' (subtitled ''From Genesis to Nemesis...'') is the fifth studio album by English extreme metal band Cradle of Filth. It was released on 10 March 2003 and is Cradle of Filth's only album on a major label, Sony Records, after which they transferred to Roadrunner. It features the one hundred and one-piece Budapest Film Orchestra including the forty-piece Budapest Film Choir. The album is partly based on John Milton's epic poem ''Paradise Lost''. Background In addition to the Miltonic arc, the album also features stand-alone tracks such as the Nile tribute "Doberman Pharaoh" and the Aleister Crowley- influenced "Babalon A.D. (So Glad for the Madness)". Recording This is the first Cradle of Filth release since '' V Empire'' to feature only one full-time guitar player ( Paul Allender), as former guitarist Gian Pyres quit the band shortly before the writing and recording process. Keyboardist Martin Powell played session guitars for the album as well as ke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rob Caggiano
Robert Caggiano (born November 7, 1974) is an American guitarist and record producer. Caggiano is known as the lead guitarist of the Danish rock band Volbeat from 2013 to 2023 and of thrash metal band Anthrax from 2001–2005 and 2007–2013. He was also a member of nu metal band Boiler Room. Career Caggiano's first professional band was Boiler Room that formed in 1996. The band caught the attention of Roadrunner Records after an opening slot for the band Orgy in 1999. After several delays, the band eventually got Tommy Boy Records to release their debut album ''Can't Breathe''. Soon after the release, the band broke up in summer 2000. He initially played with Anthrax from 2001 until 2005, exiting when their ''Among the Living'' lineup reunited, and later returning in 2007 following the end of that reunion. He appears on the albums '' We've Come for You All'' and '' Worship Music'', as well as the '' Greater of Two Evils'' compilation (a live-in-the-studio recording of ol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Powell
Martin Powell is an English musician. In 1991, Powell auditioned for the position of bass player in the band My Dying Bride, but was turned down as the band had just filled the position. Upon informing the band he was also a violin and keyboard player, he was hired as a session musician, before becoming the band's permanent violinist and keyboardist. Around 1998, Powell and My Dying Bride parted ways and he joined Anathema, in the role of live keyboardist, only to depart two years later. In 2000, Powell joined the British extreme metal band Cradle of Filth along with drummer Adrian Erlandsson and guitarist Paul Allender after the departure of Les 'Lecter' Smith. The band then went to record the album '' Midian''. The following year, the band released their transitional mini-album '' Bitter Suites to Succubi''. In 2003 they released the album ''Damnation and a Day'' using a small orchestra and choral section for which Powell wrote the score. Powell wrote several songs for b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doug Bradley
Douglas William Bradley (born 7 September 1954) is an English actor best known for his role as the Cenobite leader Pinhead in the ''Hellraiser'' film series. Early life Douglas William Bradley was born in Liverpool on 7 September 1954. He attended Quarry Bank High School in the Allerton suburb of Liverpool. Career Bradley is best known for portraying the villainous Cenobite leader Pinhead in the first eight installments of the ''Hellraiser'' film series, which were adapted from books written by his long-time friend and former classmate Clive Barker; he also portrayed Captain Elliot Spencer, the man who later became Pinhead, in '' Hellbound: Hellraiser II'' (1988) and '' Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth'' (1992). He is one of only six actors to play the same horror character at least six consecutive times, the others being Christopher Lee ( Count Dracula), Robert Englund ( Freddy Krueger), Warwick Davis ( the Leprechaun), Brad Dourif ( Chucky) and Tobin Bell ( Jigsa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
Midian (album)
''Midian'' is the fourth studio album by English extreme metal band Cradle of Filth. It was released on 30 October 2000 through Music for Nations. The album marks the return of guitarist Paul Allender to the band, as well as the introduction of drummer Adrian Erlandsson (At the Gates, The Haunted) and keyboard player Martin Powell (My Dying Bride, Anathema). It also features Doug Bradley (''Hellraiser, Hellbound'') as the narrator for various songs. Thematic inspiration ''Midian'' is inspired by English author Clive Barker's novel ''Cabal'' and his subsequent film version '' Nightbreed''. Dani Filth explained to the magazine ''Empire'' in September 2012: We loved ''Cabal'', '' The Damnation Game'' and '' The Books of Blood'', and we liked that everything had "Clive Barker presents..." on it before people even knew who he was. That gave it an air of mystery: you should know who this is, but you don't. ''Midian'' kind of is and isn't a concept album: as a title, it just made pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cult Of Cthulhu
"The Call of Cthulhu" is a cosmic horror short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written in the summer of 1926, it was first published in the pulp magazine ''Weird Tales'' in February 1928. The story is a founding document of the Cthulhu Mythos, a mythopoeia and shared fictional universe expanded upon by Lovecraft and successors. Plot The deceased narrator, Francis Wayland Thurston, recounts his discovery of notes left behind by his grand-uncle, Brown University linguistic professor George Gammell Angell, after his death in the winter of 1926–27. Among the notes is a small bas-relief sculpture of a scaly creature which yields "simultaneous pictures of an octopus, a dragon, and a human caricature." The sculptor, a Rhode Island art student named Henry Anthony Wilcox, based the work on delirious dreams of "great Cyclopean cities of titan blocks and sky-flung monoliths." Frequent references to Cthulhu and R'lyeh are found in Wilcox's papers. Angell also discovers repor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hellraiser
''Hellraiser'' is a 1987 British supernatural horror film written and directed by Clive Barker in his directorial debut. Based on Barker's 1986 novella ''The Hellbound Heart'', the film's plot concerns a mystical puzzle box that summons the Cenobites, a group of extra-dimensional, sadomasochistic beings who cannot differentiate between pain and pleasure. It stars Andrew Robinson, Clare Higgins, Ashley Laurence, and Doug Bradley as the leader of the Cenobites. Development of the film began before Barker's novella was published. Disappointed by previous adaptations of his work, Barker elected to direct himself, appropriating several actors and crew from his earlier career as a playwright. With the backing of independent producer Christopher Figg and financing from New World Pictures, filming took place in London in autumn 1986. ''Hellraiser'' had its first public showing at the Prince Charles Cinema on 10 September 1987. It was widely released in the United Kingdom by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
