CRADLE OF FILTH Frontman Dani Filth Talks DEVILMENT - "It's More Riff Driven And Somewhat In The Vein Of RAMMSTEIN Or WHITE ZOMBIE"
October 6, 2014, 9 years ago
Cradle Of Filth frontman Dani Filth recently spoke with MediaMikes.com about his other band, Devilment, and their forthcoming debut album The Great And Secret Show. An excerpt is available below:
Q: What is it that you want to accomplish with this new album/band?
DF: "It’s vastly different than Cradle of Filth. It’s a totally different entity in that’s its completely original. Each of the band members has their own unique perspective on metal and music in general. Our keyboardist Lauren doesn’t come from a metal background at all though she has come to appreciate it. Six of us have come together to create this unique thing. It is more riff driven and somewhat in the vein of Rammstein or White Zombie. The songs have more of a heavy groove to them. Lauren has brought this John Carpenter type vibe to the whole thing which is really great. The music is definitely in the realm of horror."
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Devilment have released their video for the single, "Even Your Blood Group Rejects Me", which will be featured on the band's upcoming debut album.
Commented director Sam Scott-Hunter: "With this video I really wanted to capture the intensity of the song, and then shove it in your face to get the heart pounding - the visual equivalent of listening to it loud on your headphones in a dark room. So to do that we locked ourselves in a studio in deepest, darkest Suffolk, turned most of the lights out and the volume up, and we didn't come out again until we had that intense groove etched indelibly into the back of the camera. It's a dark song, and I wanted that heaviness to come across visually, but there's also an air of mystery and mysticism in what the band are doing, and to capture that we enlisted an incredible dancer, NagaSita, who has a wonderfully different and exotic take on the track. I hope when people watch this, they can turn the lights off, turn it up loud, and enjoy a really intense experience."
Added Dani Filth: "When we approached undertaking a video for the track 'Even Your Blood Group Rejects Me', the intention was to create something very visually disturbing, yet stunning to look at, in a minimalistic monochrome context. The idea was to really bring out the performance of the track and marry it to phantasmagorical images, all cut to the massive pounding beat. Through the inclusion of smoke, strobe-lighting, fire, Theban masks, exotic dance and silhouette, we have endeavoured to create a mystic atmosphere in which we plunged the entire studio into complete and utter darkness, so that the viewer's full attention is focused on these aforementioned traits, set adrift against what appears to be the timeless whirls of space. Sam Scott-Hunter the director and his assistant for the day, band photographer Dex Jezierski, both pulled out all the stops to make this video come to horrid artistic fruition, and we even enlisted the help of my wife Toni and daughter Luna for hair, angle-grinding, make-up and costume, all for the benefit of keeping our cinematic occult activities a closed secret from the unsuspecting human world. As a band we are all extremely pleased with the outcome of our dalliance with the dark arts and hope that viewers to this visual feast will enjoy it just as much as we did weaning the video from it's deep Satanic birth."
Devilment consists of Dani Filth (vocals), Daniel Finch (guitar, samples) Colin Parks (rhythm guitar, lead guitar), Nick Johnson (bass guitar), Aaron Boast (drums), Lauren Francis (keyboards, vocals).
Dani Filth had this to say about the signing, "I am thrilled to be a part of the Nuclear Blast family with my other band, the Witch County fiends Devilment. Our debut album The Great And Secret Show is a horror-metal fuelled slay ride of maleficent proportions and deserves some deep infernal love from a label that has dominated the metal market for aeons. And we have found that unconditional love at Nuclear Blast. All of us in the band are really looking forward to the forthcoming months, as the proverbial war machine kicks into gear and the album surfaces like some sub-aquatic monster hellbent on smashing stuff. Until then keep a cyclopean eye out for regular social media updates, videos and the announcement of live shows to further whet your appetite...”
The Great And Secret Show was recorded at Grindstone Studios in Suffolk with producer Scott Atkins, who has previously worked with the likes of Cradle Of Filth, Behemoth, Amon Amarth, Sylosis and Gama Bomb. The artwork (see below) was created by legendary Drake Mefestta.
Adds Filth: "The album cover depicts an intended escape by one of Jack The Ripper's victims, (followed as she is down a moonlit Victorian alley) into another enchanted realm.Some might read it as an imagined release from the horrible pain to follow, but the artist Drake Mefestta and I thought it served to show the lure of the mystical, amid a sea of debauch. The artwork that follows in the booklet is a stunning articulate walk-through of that enchanted realm. The album is entitled The Great And Secret Show and concerns itself with the occult pulse behind the world, a land of imagination that can be slipped into at will. Like a generator buzzing behind everything. The truth behind the Wizards curtain. A phantasmagorical nightscape. A wonderland. A midnight playground. The fertile land of the dead."
Tracklisting:
"Summer Arteries""Even Your Blood Group Rejects Me"
"Girl From Mystery Island"
"The Stake In My Heart"
"Living With The Fungus"
"Mother Kali"
"Staring At The Werewolf Corps"
"Sanity Hits A (Perfect) Zero"
"Laudanum Skull"
"The Great And Secret Show"
Bonus Tracks:
"Psycho Babble"
"Even Your Blood Group Rejects Me" (Motion Picture Soundtrack)
The band’s first single "Mother Kali" can be heard below:
Devilment will be touring for the first time later this year and have announced a string of live dates with Lacuna Coil and Motionless In White. Tour dates are as follows:
October
November
2 - Glasgow, Scotland - 02 ABC
4 - Manchester, England - The Ritz
5 - Birmingham, England - The Institute
6 - Esch/Alzette, Luxembourg - Rockhal
8 - Wiesbaden, Germany - Schlachthof
9 - Utrecht, Netherlands - Tivoli
10 - Hasselt, Belgium - Muziekodroom
12 - Hamburg, Germany - Gruenspan
13 - Cologne, Germany - Essigfabrik
14 - Berlin, Germany - C-Club
15 - Herford, Germany - Club X
17 - Munich, Germany - Backstage
18 - Pratteln, Switzerland - Z7
20 - Bologna, Italy - Zona Roveri
21 - Treviso, Italy - New Age
22 - Rome, Italy - Orion
23 - Milan, Italy - Live Club
