British extreme metal legends Cradle of Filth embarked on their Creatures from the Black Abyss Tour in support of their new album Darkly, Darkly, Venus Aversa last night in Houston, TX, and are headed our way, bringing something wicked to the Best Buy Theatre on March 3rd. Cradle of Filth are infamous for their controversial and inflammatory imagery and rhetoric and have been turning heads and arousing the wrath of parents and authority figures since they first appeared on the scene in the early 1990s. You can do your own research, but as a warning, much of their imagery (in particular their infamous t-shirt artwork, “Vestal Masturbation” and “Gilded ****”: the former has the peculiar distinction of being ordered to be seized by police in Glasgow and campaigned against by the Catholic league of America and the governor of Wisconsin; the latter of being rejected for printing by a t-shirt factory when workers literally refused to make the shirt) is NSFW.
I will have an interview with guitarist Paul Allender next week to discuss Cradle, Darkly, Darkly, Venus Aversa, touring, and Paul’s art project, Vomitorium.
Here’s their classic video for “Her Ghost in the Fog”, one of my personal Cradle of Filth favorites.