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Dani Filth (the vocalist in Cradle of Filth) is one of my All time favourite lyricists. He Really knows stuff and his choice of wording is Absolute Top notch.
@@SoulSingerDiscovershis Shakesperian style of writing is something amazing. Liv Kristine, who was featured in this song, was in Theatre Of Tragedy from 1994 to 2003. After the daperture she formed Leaves' Eyes with her husband Alexander Krull and other Atrocity members.
Ola, check out Saphath then, very similar lyrical style. Btw they dropped a Halloween single last year, made together with CoF guitarist. It’s called “Spider Queen’s Call”
Liv's original band was Theatre of tragedy. In velvet darkness we fear is an amazing album. Sarah Jezebel Diva was Cradle of filths original female singer.
Livs vocals are awesome and that album is a killer album which features the awesome track And when he falleth which features samples of Vincent Price lifted from "The Masque of the Red Death".
Liv then went to Germany to form Leaves Eyes (with her now ex-husband Alex and the members of Atrocity). I knew them personal, but Liv had to leave the band because of their divorce...
the Metal spectrum is so vast that there are Genres and Sub-genres within those Genres. not to make it sound dark and foreboding, but if you dive into that rabbit hole you're not very likely to come back out, just because of the vast variety of it all.
In my opinion Dani Filth is the modern day Shakespeare . I dont think there is anyone one out there that can touch his mastery of the English language . His lyrics draw you in to beautiful and yet horrific vitas in your minds eye with his poetic storytelling whether it be this song (Nymphetamine) or the epic Tearing the Veil from Grace
She's a guest vocalist but they always have a female backing singer Liv Kristine the female singer on this song was the lead singer of Leaves' Eyes and Theatre Of Tragedy and now has a good solo career too those 2 bands are both incredible and some of the best in their genres Leaves' Eyes are symphonic (classical) folk metal and Theatre of Tragedy are gothic metal
One of the things I love about metal is that sometimes you can find beauty and harshness blended together. Symphonic metal, symphonic black metal and gothic metal are some of the best places to find that.
As a general rule, there is no such thing as Symphonic Black Metal. If you like Dimmu Borgir, and their ilk, that's your prerogative, but they are not Black Metal. Just because a generic symphonic band has tremolo picking, harsh vocals, and bad corpse paint, doesn't make them Black Metal.
OMG! You noticed the connection to the IT Crowd too! I love that show. I remember that band name being said, but I thought it was fictional. Love it! Stay awesome!
Every now and then….an artist releases a song which pushes the boundaries of creativity….Bohemian Rhapsody, Paranoid Android, this……absolute treasures!!!!!
Gothic Metal is definitely a thing, I had some mates who were really into it. Paradise Lost are one band I remember and Type O Negative, although honestly I always thought they had loads of punk influences in there too. The Bloody Kisses album sounded like heavy Husker Du to me.
@@brasschuckles3138 Cradle were never a band I paid much attention too, probably because the guys I knew who listened to them also listen to things like Deicide which I just couldn't get into. Will check out their early stuff as the punk influences in ToN really float my boat.
If you listen to gothic rock, especially earlier stuff, it has a heavy punk influence, as the scene itself came out of post punk. It makes sense that metal bands incorporating the gothic sound would naturally have some punk influence too as a reault
@@chrisjohnson1387 A perfect example of this is "The Damned" in the 70s. I would say they were a "gothic punk" type of their own and had a massive influence on several genres like Punk, New Wave, Gothic Rock and everything thereafter.
A great demonstration on what the band (regardless of who’s in it at the time) is capable of. And also a great demonstration of Dani’s vocal range. He capable of much more than this and I highly recommend listening to all of their albums just so you can get an understanding of how he’s grown.
Cradle Of Filth just keep releasing masterpiece after masterpiece. I found this album in a charity shop and bought it for the hell of it. Didn't give it much thought. It was this song that got my interest and made me spend more time with the whole album. It's a gateway song. Not even close to their best work, but a good siren song to lure the unsuspecting in. I now own everything they have released. In my top ten favourite bands. I listen to so much music that I started needing more complex and challenging music to keep me interested. They provide exactly that. My favourite album Is 'Dusk And Her Embrace'. The two considered their best by consensus are 'Midian' and 'Cruelty and the Beast'. Cruelty has the songs 'Bathory Aria' and 'Cruelty Brought Thee Orchids' which are epic songs with amazing lyrics.
Regarding pitch, Dani Filth actually did have some troubles with his voice a while back (like, 10+ years back, but still, after Nymphetamine, so around or after the time this song was released). But he got a dedicated vocal coach and worked on his technique and nowadays his voice, especially live, isn't exactly what it was on their first albums from around the turn of the millenium, but it's much more sustainable, and still really awesome and unique!
Thanks for this tidbit! I didn't know that about him. Correlates with at least two (prolly more) vocalists I respect tremendously, that made that choice for live performance, as an (intelligent) way of preserving their beautiful voices: Maynard of Tool and Mikael of Opeth. There is also, especially in the case of Mikael, a move away from the energies they worked through in cathartic ways, and felt the desire to move on to more melodic (and sometimes less aggressive, but never boring) works.
Great reaction again! I was curious how you would like their music (this is one of their softer songs). I’m not a big Cradle of Filth fan but I enjoy their music. The first thing I thought when you mentioned you like the vampire / goth esthetics and sound was ‘oh she needs to check out Type O’Negative!’. Doom-death music from the early 90s all have a strong gothic vibe (Paradise Lost, Cathedral, The Gathering). If you like horror stories you want to try King Diamond (all his albums are musical horror stories).
@@SoulSingerDiscovers If you do sleepless nights be sure to do the live from the Fillmore version from 2015. King Diamond live is still amazing with him being in his mid 60's.
Liv Kristine, the female singer, has been in several bands herself. At the time of this songs recording, she was in Leaves Eyes. Elegy is a song I would recommend from them. And you wouldn't be the only soul singer. Noorha from Battle Beast came from jazz and soul before discovering her metal voice while emulating Janis Joplin. For Battle Beast, I'm partial to 'No More Hollywood Endings'
Although not to everyone's liking. I love the complexity of Cradle's music. It is beautiful dark poetry and melodic mayhem. Dani Filth is an unbelievable lyricist and vocalist. Their music helped me through a difficult time in my youth so they will always be a part of me. \m/ 🖤💀🖤\m/
CoF does have a full time female singer (Zoe Marie Federoff) Liv was a guest singer on this song. Dani uses every distortion technique he can force through his larynx 😆
If you loved this then try one of their others 'Heartbreak and Seance. Its just as dramatic, you'll absolutely love it! Cradle are one of Englands prized possessions.
"It's all so both beautiful and disgusting" As a huge CoF fan for over 25 years, I think that's the best description of the experience I've ever heard.
I HIGHLY recommend checking out the album 'cruelty and the beast' and reading all the lyrics. It's about the mass murderer countess Elizabeth bathory who was a countess in eastern Europe during medieval times...and did alot of medieval shit to poor girls. It's dark and atmospheric and Elizabeth character has spoken monologues going crazy throughout the songs. Such a cool concept...the music is incredible too. Wild album
My all time favorite CoF album,I love the complexity of that album , it is beautiful dark poetry and melodic mayhem. Dani was at his peak with that album in my opinion.
@JeremyMiller-sn6nh Dani peaked hard. Also Stuarts guitarist, les harnessing the organs sound and Nick barker being incredible put that over the line. So good
LOL. Richmond is great! I laughed creepily when he gave that CD. Cradle of Filth has a lot you can discover, especially if you pay attention to those lyrics.
This comment was CENSORED by YT(!), so another take... You want to know what genre they are? Nowadays, I would say it is goth metal, but for sure they come from a very own version of black metal. Very well-made extreme metal right from the start. The lyrics of Dani Filth are always extraordinarily well-made, unique. He called the genre "vampire metal" in the beginning, if you want to know what they come from, you might watch one of the probably most notoriously shocking music videos of the 90s in the uncensored version. (The one with the introduction of Dany Filth in the beginning, where he fantasizes about killing the pope and explains that they used nearly 100 gallons of blood for the video and have all the bells and whistles for an offending video, like ... yepp ...): Cradle of Filth: From the Cradle to Enslave ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-YnbOhSGVbRg.html I guarantee you, after watching this video, you will never see a violin the same way as before. (People who watched it will instantly know what I mean!) Honestly, this is one of the best and most disturbing metal videos of all times, and it instantly made me a fan of them. They deserve a deeper look into their early work. They were always excellent.
This sounds very dramatic and I love it! I’ll check it out cos this feels like a sub genre I might find some real favs in. For the lyric writing if nothing else. Thanks for this! I love violin, not sure how I’m gonna feel after watching this 😂👍
Ms. Kelly, I just wanted to tell you that I love to listen to you talk, not only because of your accent, but you're vocabulary is quite to par of a lexicon! Thank you.
heres my Cof Story. I saw a show 20 years ago called 'Living with the enemy' where they stick opposites together. Anyway some full blown metalheads mum who was like a level 7 vegan christian went on the tour bus with these guys and in the end she was like 'yeah idk about the music but Dani Filth is a very nice guy'. Its true.
My first experience with Cradle Of Filth came via a Goth/metal girl I used to hang out with ‘round here. We met before I moved back to the area, then continued once I found a place. One day she brought me some burned CDs, as they were still in use then. Among them was a Cradle Of Filth album, the name of which I never made note of. But I liked the tracks enough to go find my own copies. I came across a double album compilation and bought it. After some time I grew to like the first disc a lot. Because to me each track sounded like its own little horror movie, and I used to be big into those. I also have some background in both metal and Goth, so I suppose all of that set me up nicely to enjoy their brand of Gothic-style extreme metal. Though this tune is more like a radio-friendly version of their songwriting. That said, it’s a great and sensible intro to the band before you might sample some of their more hardcore material. Either way they have lots of strong, heavy compositions to choose from. Other groups I would recommend would be Norway’s Dimmu Borgir, black metal with actual orchestral parts, harsh vocals plus clean singing; and New York’s Type O Negative, heavy Gothic/doom metal with especially low male lead vocals. I would consider these some of the top acts in their different sub-genres.
firstly I have an advice always react to studio versions of these bands beacause often they chop of the songs to fit tv time. If you like Vampires you should defenitly check out Type O Negative (Black No1), also the studio versiom, their lead vocalist sounds exactly how count dracula would sing. Another great song is Dracula from Iced Earth, its based on the classic novel by Bramm Stoker
There are so many cradle of filth songs you really should react to such as bathory aria, her ghost in the fog.. just for examples. Dani Filth is a Lyricist on another level.
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the female singer is Liv Kristine, try her exband - "Leaves' eyes - elegy"
Slowly working my way through your awesomeness. With your gothic romance I believe you should continue with "Her Ghost In The Fog". Satisfying storytelling, another fine opera singer and expressive "burping" from Danni to satisfy your hunger 😝
There's 3 versions of this song. This one is "fix" featuring a well known European opera singer(I forgot her name), the "Sara jezebel Deva fix"(who was theor actual recording/touring back up vocalist at the time, and "overdose". You need to listen to the overdose version.
Ah, the “beauty and the beast” vocal pairing… if you like the contrast, check out some Draconian, or for some sads, give Hallatar - My Mistake a listen. (Although these are both death doom)
Cradle of Filth RULES! I would NEVER call Cradle of Filth goth. They are more thrashy symphonic metal with a tinge of black metal nowadays. Their earlier stuff were vicious black metal with symphonic elements. Always absolutely AWESOME though!
I didn't hear about Cradle of Filth until 2015.. the first bands I heard that I considered goth were, Xandria songs like Forevermore, Ravenheart,, eversleeping, more bands like Epica, Sirenia, Within Temptation, Lacuna coil, Theatre of Tragedy.
Uhm, Queen of the Damned, huh? Aaliyah''s vampire pub scene is one of my favorite movie scenes of all times. Excellent soundtrack by Jonathan Davis (Korn).
@@SoulSingerDiscovers Hahahaha. Oh, well, it was an MTV financed movie, it was totally clear, that the critics are trashing it. Nevertheless, I was floored that Jonathan Davis does a "serious" solo thing in a different direction, so I would have watched it for that alone! 🙂
Well goth isn't really metal. It's a sub genre of punk with the theme of dark poetry. I mean Edgar Allen poe is arguibly the father of Gothic literature. The goth style started in around the late 70s and early 80s along Souxie and the banshees and of course The Cure who invented the "Goth look". It was never really metal but just a dark version of punk.
I've adored cradle of filth 4 yrs but you need to watch I am not a vampire .revamped By falling in reverse. Video is a masterpiece work of art. It's about addiction You won't be disappointed.
I’m not into the vampire movies much but the Underworld series are quite excellent. One of my favorite Spookie / Creepy movies from my youth was Prince of Darkness. Alice Cooper even played a character in it. It’s not action packed, more of a slower and building movie but it’s one of the few I enjoyed.
Cheers from NY! I highly recommend Ghost in the Fog as next COF song. I love your voice and accent. You could read a chemistry book to me and would love it!
That’s so sweet John, thank you so much! I’ll check it out I think COF are a band that’s gonna be on my regular rotation. Thanks for watching my dude 😊
check out the band HIM if you havent already... any song will do but I personally recommend "When love and death embrace", "Gone with the sin" or "One last Time"... Ville Valo (vocalist) is a brilliant singer with awesome lyrics 😊
Aw my god you’ve unlocked a super old memory. My old flat mate had that heart logo thing on the back of her neck. She was a big fan. I’ll check it out 😊👍
@@SoulSingerDiscovers hahaha nice. it's called a heartagram, I have one on my lower stomach like the vocalist does. Hope ya do some HIM. love ya channel by the way, you have earned a subscriber (me 🤣) 😊
@@SoulSingerDiscovers also you should check out pretty much anything by "Post modern Jukebox" on youtube, they do oldschool covers (swing/ jazz/ beebop-doowop etc) covers of modern songs (pop/ metal/ rap etc)... I prefer their female vocalists and all of them are really good and soulful
Your reaction review is awesome! I could listen to you talk all day. I like that, coming from a very different musical discipline, you can appreciate the wonderful musical quality that COF belches out with poetic harmony. It actually takes a musician to appreciate a band like this. My parents are not musically inclined and broke my COF CD when I was in highschool, which just made me wanna listen to it even more. They have like 3 or so albums that tell an elaborate story about the countess Elizbet Bathory who allegedly bathed in virgin blood and embraces this as truth, although it was a bunch of misogynistic Aristocrats that made false accusations because they didn't like a woman having that much power in Bulgaria, as she came into it due to the death of her husband. You'd love the lyrics from those albums, and the transitions are astounding
Who let Richmond out of His room?! Cradle of Filth is unique. Another video that I mussed... Happy Birthday weekend! There are some great Goth metal bands out there. I recommend the song Love You to Death, By Type O Negative. They kind of started it all. Keep up the great work My Fine Scottish Lady! ❤❤❤
Hey Scott, I put up a little post for you in a member section to wish you an amazing birthday week. I hope you have had loads of presents and love thrown at you all weekend ❤️ ❤️ ❤️
What metal has always done better than most other genres of music is it's ability to mix harsh and beautiful. Not all metal does it (grind certainly doesn't!), but when it does it it's often mind blowing. I still think the best example of it is probably Anaal Nathrakh who mix white noise and screaming with absolutely beautiful pathos. I'm pretty much begging you to listen to Obscene As Cancer by Anaal Nathrakh.
Awrite, I know I'm late to the party but I'm delighted to have discovered this channel and that you've discovered CoF. If you're curious about their old school sound, I'd recommend "Cruelty Brought Thee Orchids" or "Bathory Aria". Though, to be honest, I'd absolutely love seeing you react to Rainer Landfermann ("Langsam, hinter's Licht"), especially if you’re up for something a bit unsettling and a bit of an assault on the senses. And I’d provide you with translations of the lyrics! That said, when you mentioned wanting to be able to do extreme metal vocals I immediately imagined you adding them to "I Never" or "Break of the Dawn" and I cannot decide if that would be hilarious or atrocious.
I love that you actually have looked up my tunes and Ill be honest I think extreme vox would sound hilarious on those tunes! Ill check these recommendations out Yavor. There’s definitely lots of scope to come back to CoF for sure! Thank you for watching my dude 🥰
People who react to this song, do not react to the real cradle of filth. I see most react to this song, and i don't get why. This is very far from there best songs they have made. I usual think it's a song for those who don't really want to get into cradle of filth. Cruelty and the beast is there best album, together with dusk and her embrace. Listen to songs from those to really hear what Danny can do. And his writing on these albums is so much better.
So to answer your question about the relation between goths and metalheads. Keep in mind I'm talking about the waaaay-back days, so like the 80s, when I was in high school. (I'm old.) And I can only speak to the US. I'd say in the beginning we were natural enemies. I was the goth kid listening to mostly British post-punk stuff, and I hated any metal I heard. I wanted my melancholy melodies, minor keys, and sad poetic lyrics. Then again, the metal I was exposed to was pretty universally bad: mostly hair metal. I didn't start giving metal a chance until the end of my college days when my friends played the Black album, and I made a deep dive into Metallica's back catalog and became a big fan. But that was it for me--until Tool. Basically, up until recently, I liked a lot of hard-edged alternative that verged onto metal (like Disturbed), but few actual metal bands besides Tool and Metallica. Then I married a metalhead. And I was STILL resistant. Then I discovered Nightwish. I think the bottom line is that the crossover is MUCH bigger between the goths and metalheads nowadays, partly because there are now a LOT of bands that fall somewhere between. And both my husband and I were a little "too cool for school" back in the day and so resisted music that was different than what we liked. But he's helping me learn to like Black Sabbath and Judas Priest and a few other bands. And he's getting into Tool. You learn to like more stuff as you get older. So a marriage that was a divided house can stand. As long as you give the other's music a chance.
Thank you so much for this Carmen! It’s really great to get these insights into the reasons behind some of the things that happened in all these little sun cultures! Sure I could read what Google thinks but there’s something really cool about hearing it from people who really care about the music! Thank you 😊❤️
I know you are just starting your metal vocals journey, but when you get a bit more used to the growls, please check out Will Ramos from the band Lorna Shore. There is a video from last year, where he visits the University of Utah Center of Vocology - they stuck a camera down his throat and see what's happening when he uses different vocal techniques.(it's gross, but fascinating) ..but yeah, listen to their songs first. I recommend To the Hellfire.
Just a side note, I checked out some of your music on Spotify - it was very good! You’re extremely talented! I liked Day of the Dead and She of the Woods. Kind of what you’re doing, you got me listening to different music.
More black metal than goth .... And Dani is a stunningly good lyricist . And as per my comment under the GLS vid , Dimmu Borgir live forces of the northern light will be a good place to go. And the actor who played Raymond is a CoF fan btw .
Hey! Just found your channel and I LOVE you lol. If you're interested in finding out about the "spectrum of metal" and how goths relate to it/other genres, please get in touch! I used to be the goth kid in school and through my early/mid 20s. I live just outside of Edinburgh and would love to chat and listen to you SING! Damn, you've got an AMAZING voice!!
Oh Yass!! A Scottish person 😂 aw thank you Alexander, I really appreciate it. I’m always looking for nice brains to pick so don’t be a stranger my dude 😊💪
Honestly, if you have a soft spot for cheesy horror, you should just do yourself a favor and listen to more Cradle just for the sake of it, reaction video or not. They channel the whole Hammer film horror and cheesy 80s horror so well. Not their biggest fan by far, but I do appreciate them for how they unapologetically have so much fun with that stuff and make some pretty amazing music. Also, Dani is a fantastic vocalist and writes pretty awesome lyrics. "Cruelty and the Beast" is probably the album I'd go with.
Thank you for your analysis. Nymphetamine is a good song, but Born in a burial gown or Her ghost in the fog might show more is vocal range is you are interested to dig more in it.
I would consider this song popish by COF standards. I recommend songs like Cruelty brought thee orchids, beneath the howling stars, Funeral in Carpathia, Dusk and her embrace. Dani’s lyrics are always top and music heavily layered with so much going on but all good👌🏼