CradleOfFilth

Whip shopping with Lamb of God's Randy Blythe? Haunted houses with Dani Filth? It's all in a day's work for New York City-based voice teacher Melissa Cross, who is known for her work with some of the biggest names in metal! Visit www.melissacross...

Musicians are a pretty unstable bunch. Dig deep enough and there'll be plenty of skeletons in their collective closets. Open the door of ex-Emperor frontman Ihsahn's Symphonique studio in Norway, and there's an actual dangling skeleton the musicians there call by name...

Before the Haunted and Cradle of Filth reached their peaks, various members were a part of At the Gates, a Swedish death metal band that disbanded around 1995. Just last year, they reunited for a one-off tour that was well-received around the world...

Somewhere, Bam Margera is smiling. Over the weekend, Paul Allender, guitarist for Bam's favorite band Cradle of Filth, revealed that the British extreme metallers were hard at work on new material. What's more, Bam's other favorite band, HIM, announced they'd have a new one in stores on Feb...

Usually it takes a band a while to get to the point where they can grab a metal legend to join them in the studio. But Venezuelan-grown Noctis Imperium -- that up until recently was a solo studio project of Aeneas Inferno -- got Nick Barker of Dimmu Borgir/Cradle of Filth fame behind the kit through a shot-in-the-dark e-mail...

In a time of recession, the Ireland thrash outfit Gama Bomb wanted to make the follow-up to their 2008 release 'Citizen Bomb' so available to their fans that they're giving it away -- for free! In a partnership with Rapidshare, the world's leading online file hosting company, their new album, 'Tales From the Grave in Space,' is a free download starting yesterday...

The only rockers we've actually heard of from Taiwan, Chthonic are a savage and political black metal band that incorporates instrumentation from the Far East (including the violin-like erhu) into their Western-inspired sounds. The band has been raising eyebrows and pushing buttons since they formed in Taipei in 1995 and released five albums to date...

Writer Gavin Baddeley, who is also a reverend in the Church of Satan, is obviously fascinated by the dark arts and all things cultishly taboo. He has authored 'The Gospel of Filth,' a coffee table-sized tome that documents the history of one of black metal's finest institutions, Cradle of Filth...

"Me and Frost will start jamming again and having fun, and see what happens for a new record," Satyricon leader Satyr told Noisecreep while preparing for the band's final U.S. tour in support of 'The Age of Nero.' "I am OK with being away from home," he said about life on the road, away from his native Norway...

For some reason, people can't go to concerts anymore without hoisting projectiles at the artists performing on stage. Perhaps its part of the groupthink mentality, which posits people will do anything vile when provided with the anonymity of a crowd...