UK-based black metal heathens Cradle Of Filth have checked in with the following update:

"Weird fungal lump Dani Filth was in London for a few days last week to promote Cradle Of Filth's latest opus Hammer Of The Witches, which will be unleashed by Nuclear Blast on July 10th. Aside from on-air appearances on XFM with Ian Camfield, TeamRock And TotalRock radios and a snatched interview with Zero Tolerance in a coffee shop, there was also a take-over on Kerrang! Radio (a whole hour of hand-selected metal masterpieces to crush the neighbours with -coming soon) and a day of interviews at the rather spacious Gibson Guitar Studios..."

Cradle Of Filth recently premiered the first track from their forthcoming album Hammer Of The Witches. The official video for “Right Wing Of The Garden Triptych” was filmed in an old jet-engine testing hangar at a former military base and was directed by Sam Scott-Hunter (Devilment, Slipknot, The 69 Eyes), who also took the band's promotional photos. As well as featuring Dani and his troop of reprobates, model and Kinbaku enthusiast Gestalta also makes an appearance. Watch how the idea came about and what the band had to say about the video below:

Hammer Of The Witches will be released on Jewelcase CD, Limited Edition Digipak, Mail Order Edition and 2LP vinyl formats. This highly anticipated and caliginous creation was brought to fruition in Britain’s Witch County, in darkest rural Suffolk at the reputedly haunted Grindstone Studios.

The official video for new track “Right Wing Of The Garden Triptych” can be found below. The video was directed by Sam Scott-Hunter (Devilment, Sipknot, The 69 Eyes), who also took the band's promotional photos. As well as featuring Dani and his troop of reprobates, model and Kinbaku enthusiast Gestalta also makes an appearance.

Frontman Dani Filth commented on the making of the video: "The video for 'Right Wing Of The Garden Triptych' was an immense thrill to film as it was undertaken in a jet-engine testing hangar at a former US Military base close to my home town of Ipswich, followed by an equally surreal afternoon spent under the aerobatic flightpath of the Imperial War Museum. Directed by Sam Scott-Hunter, the video is a realised phantasmagoria of horror and hell-bound heartistry, fully encapsulating the beautality of the first single from Hammer Of The Witches, and if my flagrant play-on-words doesn't pique your interest, then the fact that it features a renowned rope bondage queen and the band in full swing just possibly might."

Hammer Of The Witches is due for global release on July 10th via Nuclear Blast. It is the first Nuclear Blast album to have a Global Release Date. Pre-order Hammer Of The Witches here.

 

Hammer Of The Witches will be released as follows:

Jewelcase CD

“Walpurgis Eve”
“Yours Immortally…”
“Enshrined In Crematoria”
“Deflowering The Maidenhead, Displeasuring The Goddess”
“Blackest Magick In Practice”
“The Monstrous Sabbat (Summoning The Coven)”
“Hammer Of The Witches”
“Right Wing Of The Garden Triptych”
“The Vampyre At My Side”
“Onward Christian Soldiers”
“Blooding The Hounds Of Hell”

Limited Edition Digipak CD / Vinyl bonus tracks:

“King Of The Woods”
“Misericord”

Cradle Of Filth is:

Dani Filth – Vocals

Richard Shaw – Guitar

Ashok – Guitar

Daniel Firth - Bass

Martin Skaroupka - Drums

Lindsay Schoolcraft – Keys & Female Vocals