CRADLE OF FILTH Keyboardist LINDSAY SCHOOLCRAFT Checks In From The Road – "An Unfortunate Moment For THE CVLT OF HVMMVS, But We Survived"

Currently on the road supporting the new Cradle Of Filth album Hammer Of The Witches, keyboardist/backing vocalist Lindsay Schoolcraft has checked in with the following update from Texas:

“Literally nothing extravagant to do there as a straightedge-gothic-vegan. Xen (Ne Obliviscaris) and I found a bookstore with a Starbucks in it and were joined by Dan (drummer from Ne Obliviscaris) for the first few hours. Then after we became a pair of mall goths getting awkward stares from the general public at the Amarillo Westgate. Xen noticed a Sephora on his phone GPS and my curiosity won, but my willpower was stronger when I was able to take my make up haul down from $100 to $30 (*sigh* adulting). But I was able to play dumb and fool the American store sales rep into receiving my Sephora birthday gift for the second time. It was my own personal karma for being kind to my finances. 

After that we found a restaurant that catered to vegans, but they forgot to bring out our hummus appetizer before our meals. It was an unfortunate moment for The Cvlt of Hvmmvs, but we survived. The night ended with watching The Revenant on the bus verses the cinema down the road because starving artist life. No churches, no crypts, not even a stinking graveyard (even a UFO would have been nice. Missing European landscapes for sure.

But alas, looking forward to playing the beautiful, mountainous Denver, Colorado today.”

Check out fan-filmed video of the band’s complete Orlando show on February 2nd below.

You can still catch Cradle Of Filth  live with Ne Obliviscaris and Butcher Babies as support at the dates posted below:

February
17 – Los Angeles, CA – Avalon
18 – San Diego, CA – House Of Blues
20 – Sacramento, CA – Ace Of Spades
21 – San Francisco, CA – The Fillmore
23 – Seattle, WA – The Showbox
29 – Ringle, WI – Q and Z Expo Center

March
1 – Chicago, IL – House Of Blues
2 – Cincinnati, OH – Bogart’s
3 – Cleveland, OH – House Of Blues
5 – Detroit, MI – St. Andrew’s Hall
6 – Toronto, ON – Phoenix Concert Theater
7 – Montreal, QC – Corona Theater
8 – New York, NY – Webster Hall

Tour trailer:

Cradle Of Filth have released a music video for the track “Blackest Magick In Practice” (streaming below). The clip was directed by Sam Scott-Hunter and the song is taken from the groups latest tome of horror and romance, Hammer Of The Witches.

Comments the director: “There’s dark madness in this video. “Blackest Magick In Practice” is a deeply tragic tale of lost love. It’s the grief stricken insanity of trying to bring back that loved one from the dead; desperately trying to hold onto that person who’s gone, even if that leads down a dark and gruesome path. I don’t want to give it all away, but I will say that the hardest part of the production was getting hold of a human ear.

“I wanted to convey the power of the band too, in amongst the romance, madness and magick. Behind the imagery of the lyrics is a great and powerful metal band of amazing musicians, and I hope people can feel the intensity of the band when they watch this. It is intense viewing. There should be a bit of madness in the video, because there’s madness in this song.”

Cradle Of Filth’s latest album, Hammer Of The Witches, was brought to fruition in Britain’s Witch County, in darkest rural Suffolk at the reputedly haunted Grindstone Studios. The album’s title is named after the Malleus Maleficarum, a medieval document of guidelines regarding the persecution and torture of witches – but Cradle Of Filth’s title version is more retributory: It’s the Hammer Of The Witches; the hammer is in the witches’ hands and it’s payback time.

Unquestionably one of the greatest and most influential British metal bands of all time, Cradle Of Filth have cast a commanding and macabre shadow across the metal scene for nearly a quarter of a century. Armed with their trademark, cross-pollinated assault that taps into myriad strands of sonic extremity and morbid opulence they have steadily conquered the entire world, unleashing a malevolent slew of classic albums along the way. From the raw and rambunctious savagery of their 1994 debut The Principle Of Evil Made Flesh to the wickedly monstrous, technicolor bombast of 2012’s The Manticore & Other Horrors, the Cradle ethos and aesthetic has had a huge impact on the evolution of metal, the band’s insatiable appetite for performing live and frontman Dani Filth’s unerring charisma and sense of occasion ensuring that they have established a powerful and enduring connection with Hell-bound acolytes everywhere.