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CRADLE OF FILTH Announces 'Blood For The Blood Gods Co-Headlining Tour with Type O Negative for November
The winds howl and darkness enshrouds North America as Britains premiere shock-rock innovators CRADLE OF FILTH descend upon our shores to dispense a month-long outbreak of mirth & mayhem with co-headliner Type O Negative and special guest Moonspell. Dubbed, the "Blood for the Blood Gods" tour, CRADLE OF FILTH is anticipated to expand upon their awe-inspiring stage performance that indelibly scarred the minds of Ozzfest concertgoers this summer, as the band headlined the second stage of the renowned traveling festival. Press, as well, was captivated by their inimitable showmanship (which included gruesome stilt walkers, aerial acrobatics, and other visual effects). The New York Times called them ...bombastic...", The Buzz syndicate described them as ...a macabre version of the Cirque du Soleil", and Asbury Park Press observed that moshing came to a standstill as second-stage audience members craned their necks to gawk at this spellbinding sight."
Vocalist and ringleader of the macabre minstrel show Dani Filth waxes lyrical on the anticipation of the new tour: We are extremely looking forward to getting back into America and Canada to capitalize on the response we received on the recent summer Ozzfest jaunt...and what better way than by playing with two bands that are not only hewn from the same gravestone when it comes to gothic aesthetics, but also trendsetting, artistic bands that collectively we admire. It will be a wonderfully dark and vampyric tour, and if you miss it you must be either deaf or dead!"
Along the trail, CRADLE OF FILTH will headline the first New Jersey Metal & Hardcore Festival in Asbury Park. This tour continues the bands support of their 9th studio album and the first for Sony Music (released through Red Ink/Epic), entitled Damnation and a Day, which harnesses the edgiest musicianship and blackened elegance of their careers to date, enough so that the album became the first-ever 'black metal album to invade the Billboard Top 200 chart! Entertainment Weekly said of the album, its over-the-top and surprisingly catchy..."
On December 2nd, CRADLE OF FILTH releases a special DVD EP called Mannequin (named for the video currently in rotation on MTV, FUSE, and MuchMusic, and the single which appears on the recently-released Headbangers Ball compilation). Featured on the DVD will be the Mannequin" video (directed by Thomas Mignone, who previously worked with Slipknot, Mudvayne, etc.), the Babalon A.D." video (which was deemed too extreme for MTV, and directed by WIZ, who previously worked with Marilyn Manson), a live performance video of The Promise Of Fever"(directed by CRADLE guitarist Paul Allender), a Serpent Tongue" animated featurette (also created by Allender), and a behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of Mannequin". Combining performance footage with ghoulish Tim Burton-esque, stop-motion puppeteer work courtesy of George Higham (www.poepuppet.com), Mannequin" displays the grandiose imagery singular to CRADLE OF FILTHs style.
Not a band to sit idly and take things slow, CRADLE OF FILTH has a number of additional irons in the fire. Dani has recently lent his psycho-schizophrenic voice to a character the animated film Dominator, which features the bands song Carrion" on its soundtrack. Dani is also in talks to reprise his role in a sequel to last years cult horror film Cradle Of Fear. January will see the band back in the studio feverishly crafting their next sanguine opus.
Blood For The Blood Gods Tour Dates include:
Thursday, November 13th Latham, NY Saratoga Winners
Friday, November 14th Worcester, MA The Palladium
Saturday, November 15th Asbury Park, NJ Asbury Park Convention Center
Sunday, November 16th Columbus, OH Newport Music Hall
Wednesday, November 19th Grand Rapids, MI Orbit Room
Thursday, November 20th Milwaukee, WI Eagles Club
Friday, November 21st Cleveland, OH Agora Ballroom
Saturday, November 22nd Chicago, IL Riviera Theater
Monday, November 24th Minneapolis, MN The Quest
Tuesday, November 25th Sauget, IL Pops
Wednesday, November 26th Oklahoma City, OK Bricktown Events Center
Friday, November 28th Ft. Worth, TX Ridglea Theatre
Saturday, November 29th San Antonio, TX Sunset Station
Monday, December 1st Tempe, AZ Marquee Theatre
Tuesday, December 2nd Los Angeles, CA The Palladium
Wednesday, December 3rd Las Vegas, NV The Joint
Friday, December 5th San Francisco, CA Warfield Theater
Saturday, December 6th Portland, OR Crystal Ballroom
Sunday, December 7th Seattle, WA Showbox
Tuesday, December 9th Denver, CO Fillmore Auditorium
Thursday, December 11th Des Moines, IA Val Air Ballroom
Friday, December 12th Detroit, MI State Theater
Saturday, December 13th McKees Rocks, PA Emerald Room
Monday, December 15th Washington, DC 9:30 Club
Tuesday, December 16th Philadelphia, PA Electric Factory
Wednesday, December 17th Hartford, CT Webster Theater
Thursday, December 18th Montreal, QC, Can. The Medley
Friday, December 19th Toronto, ON, Can. The Guvernment
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