Cradle of Filth’s Dani Filth has a side project called Devilment, which melds the worlds of horror and heavy metal with perfect precision. Today the band has not only dropped the second installment of their video interview series, but they also revealed the album’s track listing (see below). The album, The Great and Secret Show, is scheduled to be released on, of all dates, Halloween 2014 (that’s October 31st for the numbskulls).
In the video interview, as seen in the player above, Dani, Daniel Finch (guitar & samples), and Lauren Francis (keyboards & vocals) talk about the album’s title, its artwork, and lyrical concept. And anything that’s in some part inspired by Clive Barker has to be awesome, right?
If you missed the first video interview, have a look here:
Dani Filth had this to say about the album:
Our debut album, The Great And Secret Show, is a horror-metal fueled slay ride of maleficent proportions. All of us in the band are really looking forward to the forthcoming months, as the proverbial war machine kicks into gear and the album surfaces like some sub-aquatic monster hellbent on smashing stuff. Until then, keep a cyclopean eye out for regular social media updates, videos, and the announcement of live shows to further whet your appetite.
Devilment has already released the first single from The Great and Secret Show. Check out “Mother Kali” right here:
The Great And Secret Show was recorded at Grindstone Studios in Suffolk with producer Scott Atkins, who has previously worked with the likes of Cradle of Filth, Behemoth, Amon Amarth, Sylosis, and Gama Bomb. The artwork was created by legendary Drake Mefestta.
Adds Filth:
The album cover depicts an intended escape by one of Jack The Ripper’s victims, (followed as she is down a moonlit Victorian alley) into another enchanted realm. Some might read it as an imagined release from the horrible pain to follow, but the artist Drake Mefestta and I thought it served to show the lure of the mystical, amid a sea of debauch. The artwork that follows in the booklet is a stunning articulate walkthrough of that enchanted realm. The album is entitled The Great And Secret Show and concerns itself with the occult pulse behind the world, a land of imagination that can be slipped into at will. Like a generator buzzing behind everything. The truth behind the Wizard’s curtain. A phantasmagorical nightscape. A wonderland. A midnight playground. The fertile land of the dead.
The Great And Secret Show Track List:
01. Summer Arteries
02. Even Your Blood Group Rejects Me
03. Girl From Mystery Island
04. The Stake In My Heart
05. Living With The Fungus
06. Mother Kali
07. Staring At The Werewolf Corps
08. Sanity Hits A (Perfect) Zero
09. Laudanum Skull
10. The Great And Secret Show
— Bonus Tracks
11. Beds Are Burning (MIDNIGHT OIL cover)
12. Psycho Babble
13. Even Your Blood Group Rejects Me (Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Devilment will be touring for the first time later this year and have announced a string of live dates with Lacuna Coil and Motionless in White.
Devilment Tour Dates:
w/ Lacuna Coil, Motionless in White
31.10.14 UK Bristol – Anson Rooms
01.11.14 UK London – The Forum
02.11.14 UK Glasgow – 02 ABC
04.11.14 UK Manchester – The Ritz
05.11.14 UK Birmingham – The Institute
06.11.14 LUX Esch/Alzette – Rockhal
08.11.14 D Wiesbaden – Schlachthof
09.11.14 NL Utrecht – Tivoli
10.11.14 B Hasselt – Muziekodroom
12.11.14 D Hamburg – Gruenspan
13.11.14 D Cologne – Essigfabrik
14.11.14 D Berlin – C-Club
15.11.14 D Herford – Club X
17.11.14 D Munich – Backstage
18.11.14 CH Pratteln – Z7
20.11.14 I Bologna – Zona Roveri
21.11.14 I Treviso – New Age
22.11.14 I Rome – Orion
23.11.14 I Milan – Live Club
Rock Hard \m/
