Extreme metal veterans Cradle of Filth have just dropped a nightmarish new video for ‘Demagoguery’, pulled from their brand-new 14th studio album The Screaming of the Valkyries, out now via Napalm Records.
Directed by Shaun Hodson, the video dives headfirst into dystopian dread. It follows Subject Eleven, a marionette manipulated by media, politics and TV, her strings yanked by unseen forces. As a grinning world leader rises with hollow promises of peace, the truth unfolds, she’s just another pawn in a darker, apocalyptic plan.
The visuals pair perfectly with the track, equal parts blast beat carnage and gothic theatre. ‘Demagoguery’ is Cradle doing what they do best, churning chaos into something darkly beautiful:
The video drops just as Cradle kick off their UK/European headline tour, featuring support from Brazilian thrashers Nervosa. Fans across the pond are in for a fresh wave of sonic damnation.
The album finds Dani Filth and crew digging into their blackened roots while forging forward with fresh venom. Tracks like ‘To Live Deliciously’ and ‘Ex Sanguine Draculae’ nod to Dusk and Her Embrace, while the mournful weight of ‘Non Omnis Moriar’ channels the ghost of gothic doom.
Recorded and produced by Scott Atkins at Grindstone Studios, the album features the current Cradle lineup firing on all cylinders, Marthus, Firth, Ashok, Donny Burbage and Zoe Federoff rounding out the carnage.
With chart debuts including #2 on the US and Canadian Hard Music charts and #4 on the US Current Rock Albums chart, The Screaming of the Valkyries is already making noise.
Watch ‘Demagoguery’, spin the album and welcome a new era of chaos.
The Screaming of the Valkyries: Tracklist:
- ‘To Live Deliciously’
- ‘Demagoguery’
- ‘The Trinity of Shadows’
- ‘Non Omnis Moriar’
- ‘White Hellebore’
- ‘You Are My Nautilus’
- ‘Malignant Perfection’
- ‘Ex Sanguine Draculae’
- ‘When Misery Was a Stranger’
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