Radio Metal has issued an interview with CRADLE OF FILTH guitarist Paul Allender. The following is an excerpt:

Q: Do you think Cradle Of Filth’s line up will finally stabilize?

A: Yeah I can’t see why not until someone decides to leave! (laughs). We don’t like it when people have to go obviously. The problem is that we have such a heavy work load; especially Dani and myself who have great quality control, so unfortunately a lot of people are unable to handle the pressure. This is the reason why they leave and it is not through a fault of ours. For argument’s sake, the amount of stuff that I get people to do when I am in the full flow of things is too vast and some people don’t have the same work ethics as people like Dani or myself so they can’t keep up."

Q: Both the new Cradle Of Filth album and the new DIMMU BORGIR album are out almost simultaneously. Is there somehow a kind of competition between the two bands, since both bands are the most popular symphonic black metal bands.

A: "No, no competition at all. As far as I am concerned I think that they sound completely different to us. There is absolutely no competition at all between the two bands. The whole Dimmu versus Cradle thing has been generated by the press and that’s all it is. There are no issues between any of us at all. I have Dimmu albums and I think that they are a good band, although they are not really the style of music that I listen to and I know that the Dimmu guys have our albums because they have told us they do!"

Check out the full interview at this location.