EXTREME METAL ICONS CRADLE OF FILTH DROP DEVILISH NEW MUSIC VIDEO FOR ‘DEMAGOGUERY’

EXTREME METAL ICONS CRADLE OF FILTH DROP DEVILISH NEW MUSIC VIDEO FOR ‘DEMAGOGUERY’

NEW ALBUM, “THE SCREAMING OF THE VALKYRIES”, OUT NOW VIA NAPALM RECORDS

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[photo credit: Jakub Alexandrowicz]

Following the release of their brand new 14th studio album “The Screaming Of The Valkyries” (Napalm Records) – which made stellar debuts at #2 on both the US and Canadian Hard Music Albums charts, #4 on the US Current Rock Albums chart, and more – GRAMMY Award-nominated extreme metal institution CRADLE OF FILTH have unveiled another surprise! A brand new music video for driving album track ‘Demagoguery’ is out now, providing an eerily disturbing backdrop to the song, which blends dark beauty, blast beats and slaytanic groove as only Cradle can combine.

The video comes just in time for the band to kick off their UK/European headline tour, featuring support from label mates Nervosa, later this week! ‘Demagoguery’ music video director Shaun Hodson says about the video’s concept:

“Subject Eleven, a marionette puppet, is controlled by the media, government, and television, her every move dictated by their unseen strings. As a charismatic world leader rises, cloaked in promises of peace, the truth behind her manipulation becomes clear: she is part of a dark orchestration guiding the world toward the rise of the Antichrist.”

Watch the music video for ‘Demagoguery’ HERE, or by clicking the thumbnail below.

On “The Screaming Of The Valkyries”, Dani Filth’s recognisable scream and equally identifiable growl stand mightily alongside twin guitar attacks, symphonic flourishes and explosive rhythm section, implemented by drummer Martin “Marthus” Skaroupka, bassist Daniel Firth, guitarists Marek “Ashok” Smerda and Donny Burbage, and keyboardist/vocalist Zoe Federoff. Produced, recorded, mixed and mastered by Scott Atkins at Grindstone Studios in Suffolk, England, “The Screaming of the Valkyries”beckons the brave into a new era of CRADLE OF FILTH misadventure, celebrating massive melancholic melody, blackened thrash, and apocalyptic existential dread with a grinning smattering of unbridled revelry. “The Screaming of the Valkyries” is a bloody dark love letter to the longtime legion of CRADLE OF FILTH faithful and a stunning entryway for fresh lambs to the sonic slaughter.

Menacing album opener ‘To Live Deliciously’ hits immediately with rhythmic urgency, built around a Libertine lyrical hook that twists and writhes with aggression, atmosphere, and melody. Across the album’s blunt and unforgiving yet inviting expanse, Cradle summons the succulent flavours of classic albums like “Dusk And Her Embrace” and “Cruelty And The Beast” with the galloping (but no less fierce) thunder of recent entries “Hammer Of The Witches” and “Existence Is Futile”. Flashes of early

metal influences coalesce with carnivorous glee into unapologetic death ‘n’ roll. Anchored by arguably the most mournful melody in their catalog, ‘Non Omnis Moriar’ (“I shall not wholly die”) could be a cousin to Paradise Lost or Anathema, inverted through Cradle’s thorny prism. ‘You Are My Nautilus’ is the darkest song Iron Maiden never wrote, spinning an epic tale with duelling guitars, while ‘Ex Sanguine Draculae’ conjures Dusk-era atmosphere with imaginative new colours.

Order “The Screaming Of The Valkyries” HERE.

The Screaming Of The Valkyriestrack listing:

1. To Live Deliciously

2. Demagoguery

3. The Trinity Of Shadows

4. Non Omnis Moriar

5. White Hellebore

6. You Are My Nautilus

7. Malignant Perfection

8. Ex Sanguine Draculae

9. When Misery Was A Stranger

The Screaming Of The Valkyries will be available in the following formats:

– 1-LP Gatefold BLACK/RED Ink Spot w/ 12’’ Booklet

– 1-LP Gatefold WHITE/BLACK Splatter w/ 12’’ Booklet

– 1-LP Gatefold BLACK/SMOKE w/ 12’’ Booklet

– 1-LP Gatefold VIOLA Vinyl w/ 4 Page Booklet (GSA retail only – limited to 300)

– 1-LP Gatefold GOLD Vinyl w/ 4 Page Booklet (UK retail only – limited to 500)

– 1-LP Gatefold WHITE Vinyl w/ 4 Page Booklet (North American retail only – limited to 600)

– Bundle: 1-CD Digisleeve + Quill + Coasters

– Bundle: 1-LP Gatefold BLACK Vinyl + Quill + Coasters

– Black LP

– Digital Album

[Bundle: 1-LP Gatefold BLACK Vinyl + Quill + Coasters]

[1-LP Gatefold LIQUID-BLOOD Vinyl w/ 24 page booklet + certificate (Napalm Records mail order only – limited to 100)]

UK fans can catch CRADLE OF FILTH at Download festival in June next weekend and several other select EU and UK “Summoned In Summer”. See below for all confirmed performance dates.

SUMMONED IN SUMMER TOUR DATES:

Support: Nervosa (*on selected dates)

07.06.25 CZ – Ostrava / Barrack

09.06.25 SV – Kosice / Colosseum*

10.06.25 HU – Budapest / Barba Negra*

11.06.25 AT – Salzburg / Rockhouse*

12.06.25 DE – Stuttgart / LKA*

05.07.25 BE – Leffinge / De Zwerver

06.07.25 UK – Norwich / Epic Studios

08.07.25 UK – Margate / Dreamland*

09.07.25 UK – Torquay / The Foundry*

11.07.25 UK – Southampton / 1865*

13.07.25 NL – Maastricht / Muziekgieterij*

15.07.25 DE – Dortmund / Junkyard*

16.07.25 DE – Bremen / Modernes*

18.07.25 DE – Aschaffenburg / Colosaal*

19.07.25 DE – Munich / Backstage*

21.07.25 AT – Dornbirn / Conrad Sohm*

23.07.25 SV – Bratislava / MMC*

FESTIVAL DATES 2025:

06.06.25 PL – Gdańsk / Mystic Festival

13.-15.06.25 UK – Donnington / Download Festival

27.06.25 FI – Helsinki / Tuska Festival

04.07.25 DE – Ballenstedt / Rockhaz Festival

12.07.25 NL – Emmen / Pitfest

20.07.25 IT – Cremona / Luppolo In Rock Festival

23.-27.07.25 SI – Tolmin / Tolminator Metal Fest

CRADLE OF FILTH is:

Dani Filth – Vocals

Marek ‘Ashok’ Smerda – Guitars

Martin ‘Marthus’ Skaroupka – Drums

Daniel Firth – Bass

Donny Burbage – Guitars

Zoe Federoff – Vocals, Keys

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