Dec 17 2008 7:00P Live Music Hall Cologne, Germany
Dec 18 2008 7:00P Hugenottenhalle Neu Isenburg, Germany
Dec 19 2008 7:00P Backstage Munchen, Germany
Dec 20 2008 7:00P Hyde Park Osnabruck, Germany
Jan 15 2009 - Starland Ballrom - Sayreville, NJ
Jan 16 2009 - The Palladium - Worcester, MA
Jan 17 2009 - Metropolis - Montreal, QUE
Jan 18 2009 - Capitol Theatre - Quebec City, QUE
Jan 20 2009 - Sound Academy - Toronto, ONT
Jan 21 2009 - House of Blues - Cleveland, OH
Jan 23 2009 - Harpo's - Detroit, MI
Jan 24 2009 - The EaglesClub - Milwaukee, WI
Jan 25 2009 - House of Blues - Chicago, IL
Jan 26 2009 - First Avenue - Loop Station, MN
Jan 28 2009 - Gothic Theatre - Englewood, CO
Jan 30 2009 - MacEwan Hall - Calgary, AB
Jan 31 2009 - Edmonton Events Centre - Edmonton, AB
Feb 2 2009 - Commodore Ballroom - Vancouver, BC
Feb 3 2009 - Showbox - Seattle, WA
Feb 4 2009 - Roseland Theatre - Portland, OR
Feb 10 2009 - The Grand - San Francisco, CA
Feb 11 2009 - Henry Fonda Theatre - Los Angeles, CA
Feb 12 2009 - Grove of Anaheim - Anaheim, CA
Feb 13 2009 - Marquee Theatre - Tempe, AZ
Feb 17 2009 - House of Blues - Dallas, TX
Feb 18 2009 - House of Blues - Houston, TX
Feb 20 2009 - The Masquerade - Atlanta, GA
Feb 21 2009 - The Club at Firestone - Orlando, FL
Feb 25 2009 - NorVa - Norfolk, VA
Feb 26 2009 - Rams Head Live - Baltimore, MD
Feb 27 2009 - Nokia Theater - NewYork, NY
Feb 28 2009 - The Trocadero - Philadelphia, PA
Just as the gravel-lined, turd-stained streets of urban England gave heavy metal to the world back in the late '60s, so that small country with the big voice continues to be the place where the world's finest dark metal band rest their weary, alcohol-ravaged heads after another sonic killing spree.
Throughout the '90s, Cradle of Filth - led by vocalist, lyricist and crypt-crawling master of ceremonies Dani Filth - beavered tirelessly away, producing a series of peerless extreme metal classics that drew from an endless, dizzying array of inspirations and influences while always maintaining that instantly recognisable heart of filthy darkness. The brutal and brief Vempire mini-album and the lustrous, lascivious Dusk & Her Embrace (both 1996) began to reveal the band's great sonic range. Later taking into account the slithering concept piece Cruelty & The Beast (1998) and the Clive Barker-inspired Midian (2000) - not to mention their excursions into the visual realm of film and promo - the Cradle Of Filth sound showed itself to be a many-headed creature. It was one that took delight in confounding both the purists and the critics who continually assailed the band's motives and creativity even as their fan base expanded and their status soared. With a line-up that seemed to be constantly changing - thanks, perhaps, to the cobweb-encrusted revolving door that rumours suggest marked the entrance to the band's rehearsal space during this period - the music was never allowed to stagnate fresh blood and its revitalising effects remained a permanent weapon in the boys' macabre arsenal... And so to 2007, where Cradle Of Filth find themselves in the enviable position of being in a league and class of their own. Having long since outstripped the achievements of their one-time contemporaries, the band is now firmly entrenched in a rich vein of form. The current line-up of Dani Filth, guitarists Paul Allender and Charles Hedger, bassist Dave Pybus and drummer Martin Skaroupka is the most solid and powerful in the band's career and Thornography is the resounding, conclusive proof. With songs as brutish, bombastic and diverse as "Libertina Grimm," "Tonight In Flames," "Cemetery & Sundown," "I Am The Thorn," "The Byronic Man" (featuring HIM's Ville Valo on guest vocals) and a deranged cover of Heaven 17's '80s pop gem "Temptation," the world's biggest and best extreme metal band have never sounded so exhilarating, so vital, so venomous.Sergio
