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CRADLE OF FILTH Premiere ‘How Many Tears To Nurture A Rose?’ Music Video
March 21st, 2022

British extreme metal band Cradle Of Filth have filmed a music video for the track ‘How Many Tears To Nurture A Rose?’. Directed by Vicente Cordero (Industrialism Films), the clip can be viewed below.

Speaking about the video, frontman Dani Filth said: “This is yet another great video by director Vicente Cordero, encapsulating the occult essence of the song’s lyricism with great sweeping colourful strokes of total batshit-craziness. It really makes for frightening, yet strangely compelling viewing!”

Cradle Of Filth issued 13th full-length studio album Existence Is Futile on October 22nd, 2021 through Nuclear Blast Records.

Dani Filth commented: “The album is about existentialism, existential dread and fear of the unknowns. The concept wasn’t created by the pandemic. We’d written it long before that began, but the pandemic is the tip of the cotton-bud as far as the way the world is headed, you know?

“I guess the title, Existence Is Futile, does sound a little morbid. But again, it’s more about recognising that truth and saying that everything is permitted because nothing really matters, which mimics the occultist Aleister Crowley’s maxim. We all know we’re going to die, so we might as well indulge life while we possess it. The final track on the album – ‘Us, Dark, Invincible’ – really drives that point home.

“Also, the artwork for this record was created by the Latvian visionary Artūrs Bērziņš, who also dressed the last two albums, and that reeks of the exceedingly beautiful yet apocalyptic too.”

Existence Is Futile was once again recorded at Grindstone Studios in Suffolk, England with producer Scott Atkins.

Cover artwork duties fell to Artūrs Bērziņš.

The track listing is as follows:

01. ‘The Fate Of The World On Our Shoulders’
02. ‘Existential Terror’
03. ‘Necromantic Fantasies’
04. ‘Crawling King Chaos’
05. ‘Here Comes A Candle… (Infernal Lullaby)’
06. ‘Black Smoke Curling From The Lips Of War’
07. ‘Discourse Between A Man And His Soul’
08. ‘The Dying Of The Embers’
09. ‘Ashen Mortality’
10. ‘How Many Tears To Nurture A Rose?’
11. ‘Suffer Our Dominion’
12. ‘Us, Dark, Invincible’
13. ‘Sisters Of The Mist’ (bonus track)
14. ‘Unleash The Hellion’ (bonus track)

Cradle Of Filth’s line-up is as follows:

Dani Filth (vocals)
Richard Shaw (guitar)
Marek “Ashok” Šmerda (guitar)
Daniel Firth (bass)
Martin “Marthus” Skaroupka (drums)
Anabelle Iratni (keyboards and backing vocals)

Directed by Vicente Cordero (Industrialism Films), music videos were filmed for the tracks ‘Crawling King Chaos’ and ‘Necromantic Fantasies’. Both clips can also be viewed below.

Twelfth studio record Cryptoriana – The Seductiveness Of Decay was released in September 2017 via Nuclear Blast.

Promotional photograph by James Sharrock.