A conversation with Benjamin Ryan (ex-Cradle of Filth) 

It's hugely insightful to learn the history of this era of the band; demos, Principal, V Empire and Dusk... The latter two are among my all time favorite records; they're truly phenomenal. These podcasts are an absolute treat. Huge respect to Ben (and Paul) for their professionalism and maturity reflecting on that time. Huge respect for The Blood Divine too, I rocked the 'Bleed Divine Blood' shirt back then! Thank you again, these are so great to listen to, Andrew, you're awesome! Hooked me in with Stewart, now I'm working through everything from that era. I was always so proud we had our own British Black Metal with CoF 🇬🇧

Thank you so much again!!! Martin Powell, Adrian Erlandsson, Robin Graves, Gian Pyres, Sarah Jezebel Deva next to go ;) ;) ;) you rock man

An excellent discussion. I've been really enjoying all of these interviews. Chronicles of Filth!

A wonderful idea to interview the old members from CoF. I would like to hear from Gian and Robin too

Congrats on getting Ben finally! Great insight from a great guy and keyboardist. I knew about the Goetia story, but he opened up the story on many things....i must have missed the fact that the previous version of Dusk' is available now, plus Benjamin has given us his blessing, so heh. Look forward to hearing Paul Ryan, if you get round to that.

Loved your interview with Stuart Antsis the other year, keep it going. Would love to hear the others from 90s Cradle. Gian, Robin and Les would be a good shout. A book would be ace, I'd buy it.

Great interview, and his other band withe the Pauls, The Blood Divine is excellent. Highly underrated gems.

No matter how many members there have been, Cradle has put out 13 good, some great, albums. Their current line up is strong and the longest they’ve had. The most recent 3 albums have been fantastic if you haven’t checked them out.

I love this chat. Ben probably comes across the coolest with zero bitterness. He has quite a nice perspective on life. May it be a lesson to everyone. Don't hold on to old problems. They're a heavy burden. Forgive and learn.

Wow Benjamin is such an intelligent and charismatic person. Thanks for sharing this conversation. Love the early Cradle of Filth era!

This is great 👍🏻 thanks for the interview ! All C of F fans need this !

Great work as usual!! Thanks man

Thank you for keeping up tracking this guys, and putting up this amazing work. I really hope that book becomes a reality, and I just can't wait for the next one(s). Cheers!

Hope Benjamin read this...i've bought Principle in 1994 and for me is still a masterpiece and is keyboards are the integral part of this beautiful piece of black art....Benjamin you're a legend!

🤘brilliant once again! You have a great way of discussing with the artists man! Very interesting questions and your passion and dedication show! Wow

Thanks so much for getting these interviews, they're fascinating. Hope you can do more.

Another great interview, great work!

thanks a lot for this. listening to all of them.

The atmospheric keyboards were always really interesting on Principle & Dusk.

All your chats are killer man 🤘

I really love these - please write the book!

A conversation with Darren Gardner, the first drummer, would be interesting to say the least. He played on all 3 demos.

Rob Kenyon was the dude who got arrested for wearing the t-shirt, and Paul Timms was the guy who got arrested for grave vandalism. :)

I love these cradle chronicles conversations (all of them)👍🏻 I'm a maiden fan

Man just love you podcast man 🤘🤘🤘🤘 hope for talks with old cof members 🙏🤞🤞🤞🤞

great interview...great flow

Top blokes, awesome conversations with COF past and present

Wow, what a find! Great interview! Ben’s work in CoF and The Blood Divine were a major influence on me back when I used to plink the keys.

Thank Satan someone did this. Great work to all involved. Great interviews. Video is much better when you are able. I’m sure I’m not telling you anything just some feedback.

If you are interested in exchanging information for the Cradle book? I've been a fan since 95 and have been doing translations of their interviews for the European fan websites in Russia, France, Netherlands, etc. Feel free to message me.

Martin Powell was so important on Midian for me, That haunted vibe never came back again. There is a track from a Serah Ep call ''This Is My Curse'' feat Dani Fith and Martin is on keys... that track is realy nice to listen... totaly Midian ara :) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Qz5u89p6E8g.html

Sick!

Super stoked about this one! Couldn't help but notice but are there some CoF interviews which have been removed from here? I feel like I may be misremembering but not quite sure... At any rate, this rules. Thanks for doing these!

I wondered if you or he were gonna mention Andrea Haugen, was on the Principle album, and was recently one of the people killed in the Norwegian terror incident..

Zac would be well worth talking to if you can track him down! Last I saw him, he was playing in a band called Enemymaker888 if that helps. From what I understand he was a big part of the early band, so I'm surprised this is the first time his name had come up!

Another excellent interview and I was really saddened to hear of the murder of Andrea Meyer. Rest in Power, Andrea. BTW, if I remember rightly, the guy who got arrested was just going about his daily business. The graveyard vandalism was some kid in Kent who was copying the Norwegian guys. They were definitely two separate events.

How long until we get this book would love to read it

Is it possible to sign up somewhere/somehow to get notified on when this book you're writing will be released? Andrea Haugens' contribution to Satyricon is on Nemesis Divina,in the end of the first song. She also had her own music projects like Aghast,Nebelhexen,Hagalaz Runedance and she wrote books. Books about interpretation of dreams,and ancient/pre-christian traditions of our Nordic European ancestors. The idiot that killed her was a Danish national,not Belgian. About the book,i think you should also try to get hold of John Kennedy. He's the founder of Hecate Enthroned and was briefly in Cradle of Filth. I once read somewhere that it was he who learned Dani how to do these high-pitched screams,but im not sure if that's correct. Really enjoyed the interviews i ve seen so far. Keep it up!!!

Really nice bloke

who is fae walden/wulven? (cant tell exactly what is said here?) 18:00

Get Sarah! Very interested to hear her side

Another nice one. Dutch CoFfan since 1998 here. Good old days! Wod be cool if you could meet some members from the FtCtE or Midian period as well, just after the explosive period early 99. People like Dave Hirscheimer, Was Sarginson, Martin Powell (he'll burn Dani to the ground). Maybe also some session players from the early period like Rishi Mehta and Jon Kennedy. Perhaps Keith Appleton? Or Frater Nihil (Neil Harding).

nobody got arrested for gen 1 j,i,a,c tshirt it was the gen 2 version in 1996

How many ex members are there..

you do know there was an allah tshirt in circulation aswell i saw it at bradford one of the crew had it on

Benjamin seems like a cool guy. He reminds me of Jeremy from peep show haha

This is great 👍🏻 thanks for the interview ! All C of F fans need this !