CRADLE OF FILTH Releases Music Video For 'How Many Tears To Nurture A Rose?'
Veteran British extreme metallers CRADLE OF FILTH have released the official music video for the song “How Many Tears To Nurture A Rose?” The clip premiered last night as part of CRADLE OF FILTH’s “Infernal Vernal Equinox Deadstream”, and now fans all across the globe can also bask in its sublime black magick.
Directed by Vicente Cordero, the stunning video winds a haunting tale – sinister, alluring and deadly. But he that dares not grasp the thorn, should never crave the rose…
CRADLE OF FILTH frontman Dani “Filth” Davey stated: “This is yet another great video by director Vicente Cordero, encapsulating the occult essence of the song’s lyricism with great sweeping colorful strokes of total batshit-craziness. It really makes for frightening, yet strangely compelling viewing.”
This past January, Filth spoke to HeavyMetal.dk about how the pandemic affected the making of CRADLE OF FILTH’s new album, “Existence Is Futile”. He said: “The album was written before the pandemic. The drums, fortunately, were recorded before any lockdown which was, obviously, brilliant because our drummer [Martin ‘Marthus’ Škaroupka] is from the Czech Republic, so he wouldn’t have been able to get over to record. And in fact, [guitarist] Ashok [Marek Šmerda], who’s also from the Czech Republic, didn’t arrive in the studio until five months after Martin. But with the drums down and the fact that we demoed everything very extensively, I was able to carry on laying vocals down regardless of whether guitars were down or not. So, in that respect it affected us because we had to do things in strange orders, like drums, vocals [chuckles] and bass and everything else later on when, obviously, the lockdown was lifted and when people were able to travel.”
He continued: “[The pandemic] didn’t affect the lyricism, it didn’t affect the ideology of the album because that was already cast in stone. But — maybe I’m wrong in saying this — I actually enjoyed the pandemic at that point because it afforded us a lot of time… well, not a lot of time, but more time than we usually would have. Me and the producer were literally working half days. Normally in a studio, you literally work 14, 16 hours a day. We were working, like, six hours a day. There was no rush. Everything was very relaxed, and it gave us the opportunity to be very critical. There was one song, ‘The Dying Of The Embers’, which literally [wasn’t going to] make the album… We had another song which we’ll leave for later — maybe another record, maybe not at all — that was going to be in its place, but we kind of worked on it and juggled things around and re-wrote the chorus, and it turned from a song I really didn’t like to one of the best songs on the album. So that was one thing that the pandemic gave us.”
“Existence Is Futile” was released in October. The LP was pieced together in isolation at Grindstone Studios in Suffolk with studio guru Scott Atkins (DEVILMENT, BENEDICTION, VADER). Horror icon Doug “Pinhead” Bradley made a welcome return to the CRADLE fold, lending his dulcet tones to the band’s most politically astute song to date, the epic “Suffer Our Dominion” as well as the album bonus track “Sisters Of The Mist”, which is the conclusion to the “Her Ghost In The Fog” trilogy that started over 20 years ago on the infamous and classic “Midian”.
Ten months ago, CRADLE OF FILTH announced the addition of keyboardist Anabelle Iratni to the band’s ranks.
Iratni, who previously played alongside Filth in DEVILMENT, as well as her own group VEILE, made her live debut with CRADLE OF FILTH on May 12, 2021 during the band’s livestreamed concert.
Anabelle joined CRADLE OF FILTH as the replacement for Lindsay Schoolcraft, who announced her departure from the group in February 2020 after a seven-year run.
CRADLE OF FILTH is:
Dani Filth – Vocals
Richard Shaw – Guitar
Marek “Ashok” Šmerda – Guitar
Daniel Firth – Bass
Martin “Marthus” Skaroupka – Drums
Anabelle Iratni – Keyboards & backing vocals
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Read more » KID ROCK: 'I Am Uncancelable'
Outspoken conservative rocker Kid Rock recently sat down with Fox News host Tucker Carlson for a rare one-on-one interview. According to a message on Tucker’s official Twitter, “nothing” was off the table in this “fascinating discussion”, part of which will air Monday, March 21 on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” at 8 p.m. ET on Fox News.
In a short preview clip shared by Carlson, the Fox News host asks Kid Rock, “Why haven’t you been canceled? Like, people aren’t allowed to say what they think. You are.”
Rock responds that he is “uncancelable,” and when Carlson asks “why’s that?” Rock responds, “’cause I don’t give a [expletive].
“I’m not in bed with any big corporate things. At the end of the day, there’s nobody I’m beholden to: no record companies, no corporate interests, no nothing. You can’t cancel me,” Rock says. “I love it when they try.”
Kid Rock is currently promoting his new album, “Bad Reputation”, which will be made available digitally on March 21. Physical CDs will arrive on April 6.
“Bad Reputation” includes the three songs Kid Rock released in January — “We The People”, “The Last Dance” and “Rockin'” — as well as his November 2021 single “Don’t Tell Me How To Live”, which was recorded with Canadian hard rockers MONSTER TRUCK.
“We The People” features the chorus of “Let’s go, Brandon,” conservative code for “Fuck Joe Biden” (born when a NASCAR reporter misheard a crowd, reporting that they chanted in support of racer Brandon Brown when they were actually chanting expletives toward the U.S. president), and also takes aim at the mainstream media, CNN, TMZ, Twitter and Facebook, as well as mask mandates and COVID-19 restrictions.
“We the people in all we do reserve the right to scream, ‘Fuck you!” Kid shouts in the song. “Wear your mask. Take your pills. Now a whole generation is mentally ill,” he adds.
Elsewhere in the song, he raps: “COVID’s near. It’s coming to town. We gotta act quick, shut our borders down. Joe Biden does, the media embraces. Big Don does it, and they call him racist.
“Inflation’s up like the minimum wage. So it’s all the same. Not a damn thing changed,” he exclaims.
He then calls for politically polarized Americans to come together, saying: “We gotta keep fighting for right to be free. And every human being doesn’t have to agree. We all bleed red, brother, listen to me. It’s time for love and unity.”
The track concludes with sampled crowd chanting, “Let’s go, Brandon.”
In a Facebook video announcing the three tracks in January, Kid Rock described “We The People” as a “hard rock-rap tune.”
“[It’s] about, well, all the craziness going on in our world in the last few years and the politics and the polarization and social justice,” he said. “You know, constantly for just being a Trump fan attacked in the media day in day out.”
He added: “I don’t mind taking a punch, but I hit back, motherfucker, and I hit hard.”
As previously reported, Kid Rock will join forces with FOREIGNER and GRAND FUNK RAILROAD for a U.S. tour this spring summer. JASON BONHAM’S LED ZEPPELIN EVENING will appear on select dates, with a special appearance by Trey Lewis at all shows. The 24-city “Bad Reputation Tour” will kick off on April 6 at the Ford Center in Evansville, Indiana, making stops across the U.S. in Nashville, Boston, Chicago, and more before wrapping up with two shows in Detroit.
Tucker recently made headlines after Mother Jones obtained a Kremlin memo instructing Russia’s state media outlets that it’s “essential” to air clips from Carlson’s broadcasts because he “sharply criticizes the actions of the United States [and] NATO, their negative role in unleashing the conflict in Ukraine, [and] the defiantly provocative behavior from the leadership of the Western countries and NATO towards the Russian Federation and towards President Putin, personally.”
The legendary Kid Rock sits down with Tucker for a rare one-on-one interview. And nothing is off the table. You’ll see part of the fascinating discussion Monday on Tucker Carlson Tonight at 8pm ET on Fox News. pic.twitter.com/5ZU9rIb5Vj
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) March 19, 2022
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Read more » Watch: MACHINE HEAD Rejoined By Guitarist LOGAN MADER For 'The More Things Change…' 25th-Anniversary Play-Through
MACHINE HEAD celebrated the 25th anniversary of the band’s second studio LP, “The More Things Change…”, with a special full-album play-through this past Friday, March 18 at 3:00 p.m. PDT. Joining MACHINE HEAD’s Robb Flynn and Jared MacEachern for the event was original “The More Things Change…” guitarist Logan Mader. You can watch the full performance below.
Released in 1997, “The More Things Change…” was MACHINE HEAD’s last LP to feature Mader, and the first to feature drummer Dave McClain. The album reached No. 138 on the Billboard 200 chart in 1997, and as of 2002 had sold over 115,000 copies in the United States. In 2020, it was named one of the 20 best metal albums of 1997 by Metal Hammer magazine.
Amid the coronavirus pandemic, Flynn has been staging “Acoustic Happy Hour” solo sessions every Friday, during which he has performed a number of MH tunes as well as covers of other artists’ songs.
Flynn told Kerrang! magazine about “Acoustic Happy Hour”: “It’s just basically a free show on Facebook. I try to learn two new songs every Friday. I take requests, and I try to play MACHINE HEAD songs that have never been played live acoustic. Last week I covered MUSE, TOOL and LYNYRD SKYNYRD. It’s been fucking awesome. The first three or four were horrible — I knew they were — but I knew that if I kept sucking for six weeks I would get past it.
“For the first 20 years of my career, I never took singing lessons,” he continued. “Then I did some about 10 years ago. With these acoustic shows, I’ve been back in contact with my old singing teacher to try and figure out why I can do a three-and-a-half hour MACHINE HEAD show, but this clean singing is kicking my ass. It’s been an opportunity to un-learn all the wrong shit and get an opportunity to do things right.”
MACHINE HEAD recently completed work on a new full-length album for a tentative summer release. The follow-up to 2018’s “Catharsis” will include the three songs that were featured on last summer’s “Arrows In Words From The Sky” single: “Become The Firestorm”, “Rotten” and “Arrows In Words From The Sky”. Much of the new MACHINE HEAD LP was recorded at Sharkbite Studios in Oakland, California with producer Zack Ohren.
In November 2020, MACHINE HEAD released a single, “My Hands Are Empty”, via Nuclear Blast. The song marked the first musical collaboration between Flynn and Mader in 24 years.
“My Hands Are Empty” was just one in a line of singles to be released by MACHINE HEAD, which issued “Do Or Die” in October 2019, “Circle The Drain” in February 2020, and the two-song digital single “Civil Unrest”, consisting of “Stop The Bleeding” and “Bulletproof”, in June 2020. “Stop The Bleeding” featured guest vocals from KILLSWITCH ENGAGE frontman Jesse Leach, and was written and recorded just days after the murders of George Floyd and Ahmaud Arbery.
The More Things Change, 25th Anniversary Play-Through – March 18, 2022 ?????????
The More Things Change, 25th Anniversary Play-Through – March 18, 2022 ????????? • Celebrating the 25th anniversary of The More Things Change, Robb and Jared are joined by OG guitar player Logan Mader, for an in-full and in correct running order play through of the band’s second album.
All of the album’s tracks, like openers and live set staples “Ten Ton Hammer” and “Take My Scars”, through to album closing tracks and mega deep cuts “Blistering” and “Blood of the Zodiac” are given the Electric Happy Hour treatment in a not-to-be-missed show.
Rounding out the show, the boyz jammed through six tracks from their classic debut album, “Burn My Eyes”, making this a perfect setlist for fans of the earliest era of the band. Again, this is an Electric Happy Hour not-to-be-missed!!
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GEEZER BUTLER: 'I Was Really Glad That Me And RONNIE JAMES DIO Had Made Up And All The Past Was In The Past'
Damian Muziani of BLACK SABBATH fan site Black-Sabbath.com has shared a four-minute report on the world premiere of “Dio: Dreamers Never Die”, the career-spanning documentary on the life and times of the legendary rock icon Ronnie James Dio, which took place this past Thursday (March 17) at this year’s SXSW Film Festival in Austin, Texas. You can watch the video below.
On Friday, several music personalities who were involved in the making of the film — Dio’s wife and longtime manager Wendy Dio, BLACK SABBATH bassist Geezer Butler and former SKID ROW singer Sebastian Bach — took part in a panel, “Dreamers Never Die: The Enduring Power Of Metal” panel, hosted by SiriusXM’s Eddie Trunk at Austin Convention Center.
Damian, who was the last person to conduct a post-show interview with Ronnie James Dio after his final performance ever in 2009, asked Butler for his memories of Ronnie. The 72-year-old musician said: “I was really glad that me and Ronnie had made up and all the past was in the past. At the end of the film, I was so glad that we got together in HEAVEN & HELL and sorted everything out. It was great.”
Photos from both days can be found below. More pictures of the “Dreamers Never Die: The Enduring Power Of Metal” panel are available at Shutterstock.
“Dio: Dreamers Never Die” is the first documentary about Dio to be fully authorized by the artist’s estate. According to the film’s official description, it “delves deep into his incredible rise from ’50s doo-wop crooner to his early classic rock days in Ritchie Blackmore’s RAINBOW, to replacing the iconic lead singer Ozzy Osbourne in BLACK SABBATH, to finally cement his legend with DIO. Ronnie’s biography is completely unique to the tired sex, drugs and rock and roll clichés. The film is about perseverance, dreams and the power to believe in yourself.”
“Dio: Dreamers Never Die” was financed solely by BMG and was helmed by Don Argott and Demian Fenton (“Framing John DeLorean”, “Believer”, “Last Days Here”), produced by Don Argott and Sheena Joyce for 9.14 Pictures, and executive produced by Wendy Dio for Niji Productions and Kathy Rivkin Daum for BMG.
Ronnie James Dio’s story transcends the standard rock documentary. Set against the backdrop of Dio’s autobiography — half finished by Ronnie before his untimely death from stomach cancer in 2010 — the film chronicles the inspiring journey of his life, love, and storied career. Whether playing sold-out stadiums or battling illness, his powerful voice and gentle heart have had a profound influence on his family, friends, and fans around the world.
Wendy Dio recently told Argentinian journalist Lucas Gordon about “Dio: Dreamers Never Die”: “I saw the first cut of it. It was very emotional. It’s very different from [Dio’s autobiography]. ‘Cause the book finishes in 1986, with Ronnie playing Madison Square Garden. But the documentary goes all the way through his life till the end. And it was very emotional. I was watching it with my publicist and a person from BMG, who are funding the documentary. And we all cried. It was very emotional. But it’s really interesting and really good. Rob Halford is great in it, talking about stories. Lita Ford [and] Jack Black [are also in it]. Eddie Trunk and Mick Wall [author of Dio’s autobiography] both kind of narrated it and everything. I’m very pleased with it.”
Last August, Wendy told SiriusXM’s “Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk” about what fans can expect to see in the documentary: “There’s a bunch of stuff from [old] Super 8 [tapes] and some other stuff. There’s fantastic interviews with all kinds of different people about when they were working with Ronnie or what they were doing at the time, maybe supporting Ronnie. It’s totally different to the [recently released Dio] book. And I’m very interested to see this cut. I’m excited, actually, to see it. And I think it’s gonna be great.”
In October 2019, Wendy told the WSOU radio station that the documentary “will go from Ronnie’s childhood all the way through [to the end of his life]. I think they interviewed Jack Black, and I think they interviewed all of Ronnie’s bandmembers and Doug Aldrich and, I think, Jeff Pilson. They were getting ready to go to Arizona to interview Rob Halford and Lita Ford. And then they were going into England to interview Tony Iommi. They already did Geezer. So there will be very interesting stories from different people. I think it’ll be a great thing, and it’ll show people a lot of things that people have never seen before.”
Ronnie James Dio passed away of stomach cancer on May 16, 2010 at the age of 67.
Dio was renowned throughout the world as one of the greatest and most influential vocalists in heavy metal history. The singer, who was recording and touring with BLACK SABBATH offshoot HEAVEN & HELL prior to his illness, was diagnosed with stomach cancer in late 2009. He underwent chemotherapy and made what is now his final public appearance in April 2010 at the Revolver Golden Gods Awards in Los Angeles.
Dio’s autobiography, titled “Rainbow In The Dark: The Autobiography”, was released last July via Permuted Press.
Great time in Austin, TX at @sxsw with Wendy Dio at the World-Premiere of Dio: Dreamers Never Die. #hostlife? #actorslife #journalist #heavymetal #sxsw #movies
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Great time in Austin, TX at @sxsw with Wendy Dio at the World-Premiere of Dio: Dreamers Never Die. #hostlife? #actorslife #journalist #heavymetal #sxsw #movies
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Interviewing legendary Black Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler @sxsw #dio #dreamersneverdie die #sxsw2022 #hostlife?
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Tonight’s the night! Ronnie’s documentary, DIO: Dreamers Never Die has it’s world premiere at the SXSW Film Festival in Austin, TX at the The Paramount Theater!
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Ronnie James Dio Dreamers Never Die!
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At SxSW Honoring the late great
Ronnie James Dio ??
with Sebastian Bach & Eddie Trunk & Mrs. Ronnie James Dio and daughter.. Such a good time! Thanks? Eddie Trunk Sebastian Bach
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Sebastian Bach from Skid Row in Austin for the Premiere of DIO: Dreamers Never Die
He has a great spirit and was easy…
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The Dio clan here..
Breaking bread last night at SXSW..
Jeffrey,Sebastian,Eddie,
Good times???
#eddietrunk #sebastianbach
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