Cradle Of Filth "The Screaming of the Valkyries (Inkspot Smoke Gatefold Vinyl)" 12"
-Includes 24 page booklet
-Limited to 500

Tracklisting:
SIDE A
1 – To Live Deliciously
2 – Demagoguery
3 – The Trinity Of Shadows
4 – Non Omnis Moriar
5 – White Hellebore

SIDE B
6 – You Are My Nautilus
7 – Malignant Perfection
8 – Ex Sanguine Draculae
9 – When Misery Was A Stranger

*Actual vinyl color may differ from store image

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GRAMMY Award-nominated CRADLE OF FILTH reign supreme as one of the most revered, formative and
notorious names in music – from the depths of the extreme metal underground to the peaks of mainstream pop
culture itself, and are responsible for breaking ground for many of today’s top metal artists with their trademark
mixture of blackened heaviness, macabre theatricality and scintillating gothic style. The rule of Filth began in 1991,
followed by the unleashing of 1994’s The Principle Of Evil Made Flesh – humble beginnings that expanded into
cinematic classics like Cruelty And The Beast and Midian, among others. Now, following the release of 2021’s
Existence Is Futile – which debuted at #20 on the Billboard 200 with Hard Rock Genre (beyond many other chart
debuts) – the international institution returns with their arrestingly catchy 14th studio album, The Screaming of the
Valkyries. Out in March 2025 via Napalm Records, the album is a succinct summation of the ghosts of Cradle’s
past and a bold step into the future. Frontman Dani Filth’s recognizable scream and equally identifiable growl stand
mightily alongside twin guitar attacks, symphonic flourishes, and explosive rhythm section, implemented by
drummer Martin “Marthus” Skaroupka, bassist Daniel Firth, guitarists Marek “Ashok” Smerda and Donny Burbage,
and keyboardist/vocalist Zoe Federoff.

Menacing album opener “To Live Deliciously” hits immediately with rhythmic urgency, built around a Libertine lyrical
hook that twists and writhes with aggression, atmosphere, and melody, before “Demagoguery” blends dark beauty,
blast beats, and slaytanic groove as only Cradle can combine. Across the album’s blunt and unforgiving yet inviting
expanse, Cradle summons the succulent flavors of classic albums like Dusk And Her Embrace and Cruelty And
The Beast with the galloping (but no less fierce) thunder of recent entries Hammer Of The Witches and Existence
Is Futile. Flashes of early metal influences coalesce with carnivorous glee into unapologetic death ‘n’ roll. “White
Hellebore” is CRADLE OF FILTH at its most devilishly straightforward, juxtaposing traditional heavy metal with
blasts of thrashing fury, spinning back to operatic goth without sounding disjointed. Anchored by arguably the most
mournful melody in their catalog, “Non Omnis Moriar” (“I shall not wholly die”) could be a cousin to Paradise Lost or
Anathema, inverted through Cradle’s thorny prism. “You Are My Nautilus” is the darkest song Iron Maiden never
wrote, spinning an epic tale with dueling guitars, while “Ex Sanguine Draculae” conjures Dusk-era atmosphere with
imaginative new colors.

Produced, recorded, mixed, and mastered by Scott Atkins at Grindstone Studios in Suffolk, England, The
Screaming of the Valkyries beckons the brave 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. A legacy-cementing album, The Screaming of the Valkyries is 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.