Closely following their recent sold-out Australian headline tour, extreme metal legends CRADLE OF FILTH are previewing their upcoming “By Order Of The Dragon” UK/European tour in the most grandiose macabre style – with an entrancing brand-new single!
“Malignant Perfection” arrives just in time for the Halloween season, hauntingly laden with eerie keys, ominous atmosphere, spine-tingling riffs, and Dani Filth’s iconic soaring vocals. The track is accompanied by a deliciously dark music video, which promises to be only the first of several upcoming visual delights brought to you by CRADLE OF FILTH as they creep closer to the release of their 14th full-length album and Napalm Records studio debut.
Chief fiend Dani Filth divulges about the track and video:
“Our new single and video, ‘Malignant Perfection’, is our horrific homage to All Hallows Eve, as embodied by the female deification of evil. It is a perfect musical accompaniment to the spirit of the witching season; invoking dark, Autumnal splendour and celebrating the time when the thin line between life and death is at its most tenuous and the denizens of the otherworld seek to break the veil into ours.
The video, directed by the imitable Vicente Cordero and featuring the creative masterstrokes of one Missy Munster, is a playground of seductive darkness rife with malicious monsters and cryptid creations, all vying voraciously for the viewer’s eternal soul.
This comes at a perfect juncture for the Halloween period and our ‘By Order Of The Dragon’ UK/European Autumn tour. It also arrives on the back of a sensational collaboration with massive fashion label Vetement and also Blackcraft Clothing, and in the fiery wake of a successful sold-out Australian tour.”
Stream/download “Malignant Perfection” HERE.
Watch the music video for “Malignant Perfection”
Nothing kicks off the spooky season like a hellacious CRADLE OF FILTH live extravaganza and the band begin proceedings in Bristol on October 27th. The auspicious tour includes a spine-chilling evening at London’s O2 Forum Kentish Town on Hallowe’en itself. Joining the purveyors of pandemonium for UK & Irish shenanigans will be Butcher Babies, High Parasite, and hot newcomers Black Satellite – be sure to get there early! Mental Cruelty will take over for High Parasite on the European leg.
You can also see CRADLE OF FILTH on Sat 2nd Nov in Manchester headlining the Damnation Festival.
Do you dare get tickets for the By Order Of The Dragon tour? Get tickets at www.cradleoffilth.com. For VIP packages, head to www.cradleoffilthvip.com.
UK events are as follows:
Sun 27th Oct – BRISTOL O2 Academy
Mon 28th Oct – BOURNEMOUTH O2 Academy
Tue 29th Oct – BIRMINGHAM O2 Institute
Thu 31st Oct – LONDON O2 Forum Kentish Town
Fri 1st Nov – SWANSEA Patti Pavilion
Sun 3rd Nov – NOTTINGHAM Rock City
Tue 5th Nov – BELFAST Limelight
Wed 6th Nov – DUBLIN Academy
Thu 7th Nov – GLASGOW SWG3
Fri 8th Nov – NEWCASTLE NX
The tour then spreads its dark wings across Europe, extending to:
Wed 13th Nov – Germany – HAMBURG O2 Markthalle
Fri 15th Nov – Sweden – STOCKHOLM Fryshuset Klubben
Sat 16th Nov – Sweden – GOTHENBURG Brewhouse
Tue 19th Nov – Slovenia – LJUBLIANA Kino Siska
Wed 20th Nov – Italy – MILAN Live Club
Fri 22nd Nov – Spain – BARCDELONA Salamanda
Sat 23rd Nov – Spain – MADRID But
Sun 24th Nov – Portugal – LISBON Lisboa ao Vivo
Tue 26th Nov – Spain – BILBAO Santana 27
Thu 28th Nov – France – LYON La Rayonne
Fri 29th Nov – Switzerland – PRATTELN 27
Sat 30th Nov – France – VAUREAL Le Forum
Mon 2nd Dec – Luxembourg – LUXEMBOURG Rockhal
Wed 4th Dec – Germany – BERLIN SO36
Sat 7th Dec – Belgium – LEIGE OM
ABOUT CRADLE OF FILTH
Positioned firmly at the top of the extreme black metal genre, CRADLE OF FILTH reign supreme as one of the most revered, formative, and notorious names in the scene, and are undeniably responsible for breaking ground for many of today’s top metal artists with their trademark mixture of grim blackened heaviness, macabre theatricality and scintillating gothic style. The rule of Filth began in 1991, followed by the unleashing of 1994’s The Principle Of Evil Made Flesh – humble beginnings that expanded into cinematic classics like Cruelty And The Beast and Midian.
The band’s unyielding international touring schedule has garnered them a massive following both in the cult underground and at the top of the mainstream, defying trends while staying true to their roots. More recent offerings such as 2015’s Hammer Of The Witches and 2017’s Cryptoriana – The Seductiveness Of Decay continued to bolster the unremitting legacy of Filth, until the band, along with the rest of the universe, was abruptly halted by the global pandemic in 2020. But, as is evident by the staggering response from their devoted legion of followers, that time was put to good use, spurring the emergence of the band’s latest, breathtakingly heavy studio offering, 2021’s Existence Is Futile. The album debuted at #20 on the Billboard 200 with Hard Rock Genre, on the Hard Music Albums charts at #4 in the US and #5 in Canada, #9 on the German Album charts, #3 and #5 on the UK Rock & Metal Albums chart and UK Independent Albums chart respectively, #4 on the Finnish Albums chart and many more.
More recently, the band released their first live album in 20 years, Trouble And Their Double Lives, via new label home Napalm Records. Recorded between 2014 and 2019 at different performances in the USA, Europe, Australia and beyond during their “Cryptoriana World Tour” and dates following, the album serves as a time-capsule of blisteringly intense live energy, and an astounding testament to CRADLE OF FILTH’s renowned latest era. The album also included two bonus tracks and two entirely brand new studio tracks, “She Is A Fire” and “Demon Prince Regent”.
As they prepare for their next full-length release coming soon, CRADLE OF FILTH continually proves that they unequivocally own the dark.
