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Two members of the long-running metal band Cradle of Filth have abruptly left the group amid their current tour, citing “unprofessional behavior” and a “foolish” collaboration with Ed Sheeran.

Singer and keyboardist Zoë M. Federoff first announced her exit from the band earlier this week for “personal reasons”; days later, Cradle of Filth revealed they were “firing” guitarist and Federoff’s husband, Marek “Ashok” Šmerda, who had been a member of Cradle of Filth since 2014, while Federoff joined in 2022.

While fans initially speculated that a rift in Federoff and Šmerda...

Cradle of Filth guitarist Marek “Ashok” Šmerda has confirmed that he will quit the band after its current Latin American tour, citing “low pay” and “stress,” among other reasons. His exit from the veteran metal act will follow that of his wife, keyboardist/backing singer Zoë M. Federoff, who just quit the band mid-tour due to “personal reasons.”

As reported on Monday (August 25th), Federoff exited Cradle of Filth in the middle of the tour, and was forced to shoot down speculation that she and Šmerda had marital problems. In fact, she mentioned that her husband would be leaving the band, as well.

In his own statement on Tuesday (August...

Keyboardist/backing singer Zoë M. Federoff has abruptly exited Cradle of Filth mid-tour, citing “personal reasons.”

Federoff — who joined CoF in 2022 — announced her departure via the following statement on Facebook:

“It is with deep regret I share that for personal reasons I am unable to continue this tour and continue in general with Cradle of Filth.

Please respect my privacy and my family’s privacy. I will answer no further questions. Be kind to my successor. I wish her and my now former bandmates well.

At least, like Roy Khan said over a decade ago, God was there after all.

Yours, Zoe.”

Federoff’s exit follows a concert on...

Cradle of Filth have unveiled a new single titled “She Is a Fire” and announced their first live album in 20 years, Trouble and Their Double Lives, arriving April 28th.

The studio track “She Is a Fire” will be included as a bonus track on the upcoming live record, along with another new song, “Demon Prince Regent.” These tunes were written following the recording of the band’s latest album, 2021’s Existence Is Futile. As Dani Filth describes them, the songs “present a perfect, but not necessarily related, bridge between our Nuclear Blast days and the forthcoming album on Napalm Records.”

A furious six-minute piece, “She Is a Fire” is an unrelenting exercise in technical black metal as riffs unfurl from one another in a torrent of notes. Dani Filth’s whispery howl provides properly unsettling accompaniment.

“The song itself is about the epitome of burning passion,” he said in the press release,...

Details on American Murder Song‘s third Ep, The Reckoning, kicks off today’s Horror Highlights. Also: Jennifer Blanc-Biehn joins the cast of Voyeur and a Daily Dead Q&A with Z Nation composer Jason Gallagher.

American Murder Song’s The Reckoning Details: Press Release: “1816, The Year Without A Summer, was an infamous year. A natural disaster blew its vengeance over the American northeast until every damn thing was froze, and the ground became death. Trapped indoors, Mary Shelly penned her classic novel Frankenstein. Two hundred years later, cult film composers Terrance Zdunich (Repo! The Genetic Opera) and Saar Hendelman (The Devil’S Carnival franchise) are resurrecting that fateful year as the setting for a bitter new batch of murder ballads. Prepare thyself for American Murder Song’s third extended play album, III. The Reckoning.

On American Murder Song’s first Ep, I. Dawn, Terrance and Saar led listeners through...

Last we heard, 18 months or so ago, Buffy The Vampire Slayer writer Marti Noxon was working on the screenplay for the developing relaunch of the Tomb Raider movie franchise. Since then there's been an eerie hush, as of an ancient wind keening gently through long-undiscovered cave systems. But who's this breaking through a crumbling rock wall? It's none other than Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' Evan Daugherty, who's now making a start on his own version of Lara Croft's next adventure.Development has been slow on the third Tomb Raider film, which will ignore both the 2001 Angelina Jolie version and its 2003 sequel The Cradle Of Filth Life. The project is coming together at MGM and Warner Bros. under the aegis of producer Graham King. The intended thrust is a young-Lara story along the lines of the most recent videogame instalment from 2013.That game saw a Lara fresh from the academy,...

We're back with another installment of Radio 66.6! This week features the latest news, music, videos and tour dates from the likes of Coheed and Cambria, Fozzy, Dethklok, Deftones, Underoath, Crime In Stereo and more.

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Nominees for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Class of 2013 have been announced. (Rush and Deep Purple are among them.) The public can vote for the first time ever. The winners will be inducted on April 18, 2013 at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles.

After 15 years together, Underoath are breaking up after a farewell tour. The will be releasing a best-of album with 2 new songs, Anthology 1999-2013, on November 6 via Solid State Records. Read the press release here.

Bullet Tooth has signed Death Ray Vision. The band features members of Killswitch Engage, Shadows Fall, Overcast, Seemless and Cannae. They will release their debut album in 2013.

Crime In Stereo have reformed. Read their statement here.

We're back with another installment of Radio 66.6! This week features the latest news, music, videos and tour dates from the likes of Killswitch Engage, Marilyn Manson, Bad Brains, Cradle of Filth, Nightwish and more.

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Gwar have announced Pustulus Maximus as their new lead guitarist. Read the awesome press release here.

Nightwish have parted ways with vocalist Anette Olzon. They are currently playing with Floor Jansen in her place. Read the official statement here.

Machine Head will release their second live album, Machine Fucking Head Live, on November 13. The artwork and tracklisting can be seen here.

Today is the 30th anniversary of the compact disc. Do you still buy CDs?

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Listen to a new Bad Brains song entitled "Into the Future" here. The hardcore legends will release an album of the same name on November 20.

Listen to a new Motionless in White song entitled "Devil's Night" here.

Ahead of 30 Rock's final season we look at the greatest comedy appearances, from Cher to Noel Fielding. Anyone we've missed?

It's a show known for its great guest star appearances. There are the top-billing megastars who reveal another side to themselves on the show – Oprah as Liz Lemon's exaggerated, hallucinatory 'Opraaaah', Jennifer Aniston's intensely obsessive Claire, Carrie Fisher's washed up writer Rosemary and Liz's very own Ghost Of Christmas Future. The repeat-appearance kooks – Will Arnett's Devon Banks and Marceline Hugot's Kathy Geiss – and the one-off show stealers (Wayne Brady as Liz's dull date). And yet somehow 30 Rock has a way of not making its guest stars seem perfunctory or like window dressing.

So the excitement surrounding the guest-star list for 30 Rock's final season, which begins airing in the Us at the beginning of next month, is understandable. Leaks suggest it might include Breaking Bad's Bryan Cranston...

If you hang out here a lot (and you should... all the cool kids do), you've probably heard plenty of interesting news about the UK's legendary metal outfit Cradle Of Filth and their cinematic sounds of darkness. Long before the symphonic metal wave surged across Europe, frontman Dani Filth and his crew were employing vast orchestral backdrops for their savage riffs, thunderous beats and demonic vocals. While most of this material has been performed on keyboards using layers of samples, some of their grander-scale concept albums like 2003's Damnation and a Day have incorporated massive live orchestras and full choirs. When I chatted with Dani recently, we talked about the band's latest project Midnight in the Labyrinth,...

Cradle Of Filth frontman Dani Filth seems to have more on his creative agenda right now than ever before: now that the band has released the CD/DVD set Evermore Darkly, a companion to the band's excellent new album Darkly, Darkly, Venus Aversa (check out our review here), they're already in the final phase of recording their first fully symphonic release Midnight in the Labyrinth – which is slated for release in early April – and in the demo stage (and beyond) on several songs for their next album, which is scheduled for a Halloween 2012 release. Aside from a few track titles, much of the new record has remained shrouded in mystery, but Dani did share some interesting details with us about both projects... as well as...

It's been a while since we heard any updates about the Tomb Raider reboot, and we'd hesitate to use that word about this story. But let's say that producer Graham King has just re-emphasised his intentions to continue the adventures of Lara Croft.King inherited the videogame franchise back in March, when his Gk Films banner nabbed the rights from Warner Bros and Square Enix. Since we last reported, the only real news has been that Iron Man writers Hawk Ostby and Mark Fergus have scored the screenplay gig. But the task they've been assigned is, as has always been mooted, to completely reboot the franchise as an origin story, and ignore the continuity of the Angelina Jolie instalments Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle Of Filth Life."[Those two films] weren't disasters," says King, most recently at work with Martin Scorsese on Hugo, "but the story...

Paul Allender, lead axe-man for UK metal superstars Cradle Of Filth, offered up some interesting bits and bites about the band's upcoming album projects – including the untitled release that the band announced last month, and their symphonic project Midnight in the Labyrinth – during a recent interview with Ultimate Guitar magazine. We've got some choice details from that article on the flipside, so hit the jump and learn more about the band's diabolical plans for 2012... According to our latest info, the follow-up to Cradle's 2010 concept album Darkly, Darkly, Venus Aversa (check out our review here) has a few songs past the demo stage: "The Abhorrent," "Siding with the Titans," and...

We clued you in earlier this month about the upcoming mini-album & DVD Evermore Darkly from UK metal devils Cradle Of Filth, and assured you that more news would be arriving soon. We make good on our promises around here, so we've brought you a couple of new yummy morsels from the band's table that might whet your appetite for that October release: a new Evermore trailer, including scenes from the band's 2011 European tour & on-the-road documentary, and a medley of song previews from the Ep. Hit the jump to watch, listen and learn! Described by frontman Dani Filth as a "musical stop-gap between albums" and "a pleasure treasure trove of wild and wicked wonders primed especially for fans," the...

Cradle Of Filth, has revealed the track list and artwork for the band’s upcoming CD/DVD mini-album entitled, Evermore Darkly… The follow-on from last year’s, Darkly, Darkly, Venus Aversa, will hit stores in North America on October 18th through Nuclear Blast Records. Artwork comes courtesy of Natalie Shau, whom also contributed the cover art for Darkly, Darkly, Venus Aversa. Tracklisiting: 1. Transmission From Hell? 2. Thank Your Lucky Scars 3. Forgive Me Father (I Have Sinned) – Elder Version 4. Lilith Immaculate (Extended Length) 5. The Persecution Song – Elder Version 6. Forgive Me Father (I’m In A Trance) 7. The Spawn Of Love And War – Elder Version 8. Summer...

We've got a fiendishly fresh new update from UK metal icons (and FEARnet faves) Cradle Of Filth, who recently floated news of a new mini-album entitled Evermore Darkly... Described by frontman Dani Filth as a "musical stop-gap between albums" and "a pleasure treasure trove of wild and wicked wonders primed especially for fans," the release will expand on the macabre world of their full-length release Darkly, Darkly, Venus Aversa with new songs, revised versions of album tracks, live performance and behind-the-scenes footage. Now we've got the cover artwork and the complete tracklist, so check it on the flipside! As we mentioned previously, Evermore will contain the new song "Thank Your Lucky...

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The county of Suffolk in the UK recently reached out to residents and asked them what and who they thought were local icons of the area. Officials behind the outreach were surprised, and unamused, when the metal band Cradle Of Filth came in as the number 1 voted icon of Suffolk, receiving a total of 13,025 votes... which is "Over 9,000" more votes than what was received by the icon that came second place: a swimming pool.

Cradle of Filth originated from Suffolk in 1991, playing music that was highly influenced by the Black Metal movement. The band's sound has since evolved into a mix of different metal styles including Gothic Metal and Symphonic Black Metal, and are known for songs such as "From The Cradle To Enslave" and "Nymphetamine."

The organization behind the icons poll, Choose Suffolk, have opted to ignore the public votes, and have since provided a list of 20 finalists to...

As you've probably figured out from this weird week of content, there's fuckall going on these days in Hollywood. December means little news, and bracing yourself for shitty holiday pictures, award season, and the inevitable January/February dead zone where all of the cinematic garbage gets dumped upon us.

But there's still some nuggets to be found, and since we all love horror movies (we do, don't we? Anyone who doesn't gets hit in the face with my car), here are a few of the lesser-known, but still interesting trailers out there.

First, a music video of sorts for the Norwegian film Troll Hunter that Steven Lloyd Wilson first mentioned a couple of months ago. Goddamn, this movie looks fun.

Next, the trailer for the very low-budget-looking, but still pretty goddamn freaky Luster, starring Billy Burke (known for playing Bella's dad and one of the few decent actors in Twilight...

Shortly after the Us release of Cradle Of Filth's epic new album Darkly, Darkly, Venus Aversa, frontman Dani Filth hammered out a detailed blog update, weighing in on a variety of topics – including their latest crazed round of press coverage (speaking of which, be sure to check out our album review), the delayed release of the album's special-edition box set, and most interestingly a new album in the works involving symphonic arrangements of some early Cradle classics. Find out more about that project after the jump! In his blog, Dani wrote that a studio date of December 5th has now been set for the new album – which has been titled Midnight in the Labyrinth – and choir parts will reportedly be added...

There's been buzz-a-plenty on ye olde interwebs about the triumphant return of UK metal icons Cradle Of Filth, who recently teamed up with FEARnet for their upcoming 2011 North American Tour along with Turisas, Nachmystium and Daniel Lioneye. That tour, of course, promotes tomorrow's Us release of the band's ninth full-length studio album Darkly, Darkly, Venus Aversa – a massive concept piece which weaves an elaborate, millennium-spanning tale of the mythical demoness Lilith. Epic concepts are this band's forte – especially if they're about demons, vampires, occultists, necrophiles, historical serial killers, or some combination of each – and they don't skimp on any of the above this time...

Over the past month or so, we've been updating you on the imminent arrival of Darkly, Darkly Venus Aversa, the new studio album from UK metal icons Cradle Of Filth... and as we mentioned earlier, the band's been busily expanding the mini-site for the album, giving fans all kinds of fiendish freebies each week in the run-up to the album's release next month (November 9th in the Us), including a video journal featuring updates from frontman Dani Filth. But here's the coolest part: Dani's next video blog entry premieres right here! It just so happens FEARnet.com is co-sponsoring Cradle's upcoming "Creatures from the Black Abyss" North American tour, and Dani's got some info on that tour...

Cradle Of Filth, the UK's most celebrated satanic metallers, continue to herald the impending release of their new studio album Darkly, Darkly, Venus Aversa – this time with the debut of the first official single Forgive Me Father (I Have Sinned) and a new music video to go with it. The full song is streaming on the band's official site, and you can watch the video right here after the jump, so come in, have a look – dig frontman Dani Filth's new glittery glam-ghoul look, and find out more about the next phase in the band's apocalyptic promotional blitz... Separate from the advance download of Lilith Immaculate through the album's dedicated mini-site (which we told you about a couple weeks ago),...

September 30, 2010: "Forgive Me Father (I Have Sinned)", is the new released video from UK based extreme metal band Cradle Of Filth. The video is directed by Dani Jacobs, who formerly worked with band on the "Nymphetamine" video. He has also worked with artists like Phil Collins, The Corrs and Moby.

"Forgive Me Father (I Have Sinned)" is a single from Cradle Of Filth’s ninth studio album called “Darkly, Darkly, Venus Aversa". The album would be released on the first of November via Peaceville Records and on the band’s very own AbraCadaver imprint. The albu, would see the.

In the final weeks leading up to the release of their ninth studio album Darkly, Darkly, Venus Aversa, UK metal overlords Cradle Of Filth have just launched a new mini-website devoted to the album, and it's stocked with enough sinister delights to keep fans salivating in anticipation. Turn the page to read more about the project in the eloquently corrupt words of frontman Dani Filth himself... "I stand before you as usual robed in oceans of filth... as coming Autumn spills her crepuscular chill upon us," declares Dani on the site's introduction, welcoming curious visitors seeking more details about the band's "latest musical excretion." Promising to "usher in a lustrum of aural nightmare,"...

If it's Sunday, then that means its time for another Fangoria Week In Review. We're turning back the clock to look back on the past seven days of blood-soaked horror goodness.

We've got the entire week broken down by category so that you can catch up on anything you might've missed. We've got the Fango reviews of this week's big releases, a bunch of new interviews - and the news continued to flow about the biggest event in Fango history - the Fangoria Trinity Of Terrors, which invades Las Vegas on Halloween Weekend!

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Few rule the Metal realm like Cradle Of Filth. Between a musical catalog big enough to fill a mom and pop record shop (it's still growing may I add), an extended assortment of controversial merchandise and the constant media coverage, it's practically impossible to have missed the Metal phenomenon fronted by former Metal Hammer Magazine contributing writer Dani Filth.

Filth, who's played a hand in just about every aspect of entertainment you can imagine, has once again temporarily sidestepped the extremely familiar Musical Avenue, traveling rather, down Literature Lane. His latest venture, an historical look at horror, it's documented conception, and profound influence upon the Metal genre - particularly Cradle Of Filth - comes to us in the form of a beautifully articulate book co-written by world renown Satanist Gavin Baddeley.

The book features more than history and band facts however. In store for readers is a wealth of Dani's poetic passages,...

If you're a fan of macabre music, the following thought has probably crossed your mind: how many artists who write, compose and perform songs about vampires, demons, serial killers and occult mysteries actually live the lifestyle they portray in their music? Do they wash off the corpse paint, unstrap the spikes and knock off for a beer, or do they retreat backstage to their private ritual altar to chainsaw groupies in blood sacrifices to Baal or Cthulhu or some other dark deity? I naively used to suspect that UK metal icons Cradle Of Filth might be from the latter group, then started leaning more toward the former... then realized that I was way off the mark on both counts. If you talk to band founder/frontman Dani Filth, you'll...

If it's Sunday, then that means its time for another Fangoria Week In Review. We're turning back the clock to look back on the past seven days of blood-soaked horror goodness.

We've got the entire week broken down by category so that you can catch up on anything you might've missed. It was a big week for us here at Fango as the announcement went out that Stephen King would be joining the ranks of Fango scribes, the mag would be honored at Stiges, and news from the Trinity continued to flow.

Get caught up below the jump!

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Cradle of Filth is a band we've covered at length on Fangoria Musick, and tonight we received word that the band will soon release a coffee table book entitled The Gospel Of Filth, penned by music journalist Gavin Baddeley (Dissecting Marilyn Manson, Lucifer Rising) and CoF frontman Dani Filth.

The "all encompassing compendium of all things dark and taboo" will appropriately see a release on Halloween.

Full details below the jump!

Official PR:

For decades, music writers have been penning tell-all artist biographies and their personal interpretation of rock history. But on Halloween 2009, Fab Press will unleash a book that takes readers on a much deeper and darker journey into the inspirations behind the world of rock music.

The history of Cradle of Filth is but the linchpin that ties the expansiveness of The Gospel of Filth together. With over 500 pages of content, the book reveals the unspoken and debaucherous...

Fangoria Musick and Roadrunner Records have a visual treat for fans of Cradle Of Filth.

This morning the band's latest video for The Death Of Love made it's online debut exclusively through Metalsucks.net and now Fango and Roadrunner are taking you behind-the-scenes of the new video that features blood, fire, love, lust, and rage!

Check out the exclusive behind-the-scenes video below!

The Death Of Love comes from their 2008 album Godspeed On The Devil's Thunder, one of Fangoria Musick's Top Albums of 2008.

For more on the band, visit:

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The year of 2008 is coming close to an end, so it is only fitting that we take a moment to look back at the new releases that the sick and twisted world of metal music has brought us this year. 2008 was a good year for many established bands to prove they've still got what it takes to rock. Some of our favorite bands reinvented themselves, while others kept true to their own particular style. A lot of the newer bands pushed the limits of speed and brutality, setting the bar just a little higher for 2009. I'd say 2008 was good year for us metal fans, and the future of the genre is in good hands. So without further ado, here's my Top 10 Metal albums of 2008.

10. Motorhead - Motorizer

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British rockers Motorhead made their mark in 2008 with their 19th studio release entitled "Motorizer". Keeping true to their roots,...