CRADLE OF FILTH frontman Dani Filth is featured in a new interview conducted by Tangra Mega Rock. An excerpt from the chat can be found below.

Q: Have you ever been tempted to join the Church of Satan in San Francisco?

Dani: "Not really, no, although the guy I've written the book with (Gavin Baddeley) is a highly ordained high priest of the Church of Satan. You know, when Marilyn Monroe was a member of the Church of Satan, she used to have a pink and black painted baphomet pendant, so... I find all this too American for my liking. I prefer Crowley just because it's more English and I can relate to it more than to Anton LaVey."

Q: I'm sure you've read Aleister Crowley. What do you think of him? Was he real or he was just writing and mumbling?

Dani: "No, no, I certainly don't think he was writing or mumbling - he got to the very depth of it and was very intelligent, and he might have possibly believed that he had several guardian angels and spirits talking to him and teaching him various things for The Book of the Law. Actually, a lot of this is written about in our book The Gospel of Filth - we have a huge amount on Crowley and the Church of Satan, including an interview with Zeena LaVey and a very rare interview with Anton LaVey, which was transcribed shortly before his death."

Q: Books are something very interesting, but...

Dani: "I love books! I love working on the computer, I love e-books, I love to have a library full of interesting books. There's something about books, you know - you can hold them, breathe them in..."

Q: And they're part of the aesthetics.

Dani: "Yes, much like music. I know people download stuff from the Internet nowadays, but it's nothing like getting the actual disc or record of the band you like, with all the artwork and everything."

Q: Writing a book is one of the best ways of expression, but have you ever thought of directing a movie?

Dani: "We did Cradle of Fear, which was more my friends' baby... It's again down to money. Now I've finished with the book, and I've also written a big bunch of poetry that I hope to publish next year. You said expression - well, I think we express a lot in our music. The current album, Godspeed on the Devil's Thunder, is a testament to this fact - it's a story that follows in chronological order, like a soundtrack album."

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