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"Marriage is f*cking metal." Cradle of Filth members Marek Šmerda and Zoë Federoff married in Arizona

Cradle of Filth guitarist and keyboardist tied the knot in Tucson, Arizona

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“He's playing acoustic guitar, but a lot of it sounds like us. Ed really pushes himself”: Dani Filth on Cradle Of Filth's collaboration with… Ed Sheeran

It’s the most unlikely team up since Judas Priest and SAW

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“I knew The Poison was going to be massive!” Metal Hammer releases exclusive Trivium x Bullet For My Valentine bundle – featuring a t-shirt you can’t get anywhere else!

Get the newest Metal Hammer with an exclusive cover and brand-new t-shirt, just in time for Trivium and Bullet For My Valentine’s mammoth Poisoned Ascendancy world tour

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Dani Filth says Ed Sheeran 'really pushes himself' on collab with heavy metallers Cradle of Filth

Ed Sheeran goes all out with his heavy rock vocals on his Cradle of Filth collaboration, says frontman Dani Filth.

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Dani Filth’s mum wants Cradle Of Filth’s Nymphetamine played at her funeral

“She’ll be dead by then, so we can change the tracklisting”

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High Parasite are fronted by Aaron from My Dying Bride, produced by Greg from Paradise Lost and led by a fella called Tombs. You already know they're your new favourite goth metal band

With some true underground metal royalty in their ranks and a tour with Cradle Of Filth under their belts, High Parasite are the goth metal fix you've been looking for

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“A lot of players don’t bother to learn how to fix their guitars – but it’s a necessary part of technique”: Cradle of Filth’s Donny Burbage hated guitar until he got bored of playing video games – and became a tech’ing shredder

The Ibanez fan, Aether Realm guitarist and former guitar tech explains the importance of mastering vibrato – and avoiding pyro at his very first Cradle of Filth show

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The 13 best new metal songs you need to hear right now

Linkin Park, Jinjer and Cradle Of FIlth are among the best new metal songs this week. Plus, vote for your favourite!

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Cradle Of Filth release new single Malignant Perfection, their “horrific homage to All Hallows Eve”

Before you ask: no, Ed Sheeran isn’t on it

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“I don’t have any qualms about playing it until the day I die.” How Nymphetamine helped Cradle Of Filth become “the Backstreet Boys” of black metal

With help from Leaves Eyes vocalist Liv Kristine and some spiritual interference from Type O Negative, Cradle Of Filth traded black metal for goth on 2004's Nymphetamine

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10 times metal bands worked with really unlikely collaborators

From members of the Monty Python crew to famous evolutionary biologists, here are some of the strangest hook-ups in rock history

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“Men screaming – not singing, screaming!” Watch the chaotic time extreme metal antagonists Cradle Of Filth took a Christian mum on tour

In 1998, Cradle Of Filth let a fan’s concerned mum join them on the road for a TV show. Things got pretty haywire pretty quickly.

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Cradle Of Filth announce extensive UK and Europe 2024 headline tour

Everybody’s favourite gothic black metal villains will be joined by Butcher Babies, High Parasite and Mental Cruelty from October to December

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"See you Filthlings there": Cradle Of Filth to headline Damnation Festival 2024 with an "old school ritual performance"

Love old school Cradle Of Filth when they were trve black metal? You might want to head to Damnation Festival in November...

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"People have heard it and loved it." We have an update on that Cradle Of Filth x Ed Sheeran collaboration (and we may still be waiting a while to hear it)

Dani Filth has offered updates on Cradle Of Filth’s team-up with pop sensation Ed Sheeran and the band’s long-awaited 14th album

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Watch Ed Sheeran join The Darkness onstage in London to sing Love Is Only A Feeling

Pop megastar Ed Sheeran opened for The Darkness in London last night – and joined the headliners onstage for Love Is Only A Feeling

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10 drummers who could replace Jay Weinberg in Slipknot

From Adrian Erlandsson to Gene Hoglan, these drumming dynamos all have the skills needed to join The Nine

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"That church burned down before we got there": Dani Filth on the next Cradle Of Filth album, collaborating with Ed Sheeran and the sexiest member of Slayer

Dani Filth shares updates on a new Cradle Of Filth album, horror movies and what to expect from the long-awaited Ed Sheeran collab

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“We came as ambassadors for heavy music, so we did our job”: How butt-plugs, sold out shows and Iron Maiden helped Lord Of The Lost laugh off their Eurovision loss

Lord Of The Lost have met King Charles, played Eurovision and supported Iron Maiden - and that's just in 2023. Behind the scenes with one of Germany's fastest rising metal bands

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Extreme metal drummer Nick Barker's kidneys are in "full failure", a GoFundMe campaign has been set up to help

The Brujeria drummer has previously played with Cradle of Filth, Dimmu Borgir and many others

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Dani Filth admits he would feel "uncomfortable" wearing Cradle Of Filth's infamous Jesus t-shirt today: "I don't want spit in my food"

While Dani Filth doesn't regret Cradle Of Filth's controversial 1993 t-shirt, he says he wouldn't feel comfortable wearing it now

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"Some guy jumped onstage with a carving knife": Cradle Of Filth's Dani Filth on the time Scandinavian Satanists came for him

Cradle Of Filth frontman Dani Filth is never short of a story or two – here, how he was nearly taken out by angry Satanists when he crossed the seas to Scandinavia

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Cradle Of Filth's Dani Filth: "Spotify are the biggest criminals in the world...we had 26 million plays last year and I got about 20 pounds"

Cradle Of Filth frontman Dani Filth discusses how its hard for musicians to earn a living in today's streaming-focused world

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Blood, ghosts and tabloids: how Cradle Of Filth's Cruelty And The Beast took black metal mainstream

Cradle Of Filth needed an album that'd start getting their music as much attention as their t-shirts. They delivered in style.

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The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear this week

Cradle Of Filth, Avatar and Corrosion Of Conformity are among the best new tracks this week. Plus, vote for your favourite!

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