Extreme metal titans Cradle Of Filth have released a new music video for “Demagoguery,” a track from their recently released 14th studio album, The Screaming Of The Valkyries. The album has already made a strong impact, debuting at #2 on both the US and Canadian Hard Music Albums charts, and #4 on the US Current Rock Albums chart.
The “Demagoguery” video provides an “eerily disturbing backdrop” to the song’s blend of “dark beauty, blast beats and slaytanic groove.” The release of the video comes just as the band prepares to embark on their UK/European headline tour, with support from Nervosa.
Director Shaun Hodson detailed 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.”
The Screaming Of The Valkyries features Dani Filth‘s signature vocals alongside a powerful musical ensemble, including drummer Martin “Marthus” Skaroupka, bassist Daniel Firth, guitarists Marek “Ashok” Smerda and Donny Burbage, and keyboardist/vocalist Zoe Federoff.
The album was produced, recorded, mixed, and mastered by Scott Atkins at Grindstone Studios in Suffolk, England. The Screaming of the Valkyries is described as an invitation “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.” It is further noted as “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.”
The Screaming of the Valkyries tracklist:
- “To Live Deliciously”
- “Demagoguery”
- “The Trinity of Shadows”
- “Non Omnis Moriar”
- “White Hellebore”
- “You Are My Nautilus”
- “Malignant Perfection”
- “Ex Sanguine Draculae”
- “When Misery Was a Stranger”
Cradle Of Filth Upcoming Live Shows:
- Jun 7, 2025: Barrák Music Hrad – Ostrava-město, Czechia
- Jun 9, 2025: Collosseum Club – Košice I, Slovakia
- Jun 10, 2025: Barba Negra – Budapest, Hungary
- Jun 11, 2025: Rockhouse – Salzburg, Austria
- Jun 13, 2025: Download Festival 2025 – Castle Donington, United Kingdom
- Jul 5, 2025: De Zwerver – Leffinge, Belgium
- Jul 6, 2025: Epic Studios – Norwich, United Kingdom
- Jul 8, 2025: Dreamland – Margate, United Kingdom
- Jul 9, 2025: The Foundry – Torquay, United Kingdom
- Jul 11, 2025: 1865 – Southampton, United Kingdom
- Jul 13, 2025: Muziekgieterij – Maastricht, Netherlands
- Jul 15, 2025: JunkYard – Dortmund, Germany
- Jul 16, 2025: Modernes – Bremen, Germany
- Jul 18, 2025: Colos-Saal – Aschaffenburg, Germany
- Jul 19, 2025: Backstage Halle – Munich, Germany
