Cradle of Filth Release New Single “White Hellebore”
Ten days remain standing in the way of the world and Cradle of Filth‘s forthcoming album The Screaming Of The Valkyries, so naturally we’ve got another single from the damn thing to get people hyped. This time around, it’s the track and music video “White Hellebore”.
The video, directed by Shaun Hodson aka Loki Films, has some weird sexual undertones, only it involves a dead woman. So you know — it’s basically a Cradle of Filth music video.
Speaking of the song and video, Dani Filth said it’s all a big discussion about human frailty and death.
“The wintertime flower of the title reminds us scintillatingly of our own mortality, flourishing in seasons of dying light and cold, frozen earth.
“Blossoming in the shadows, this Hellebore’s flowers draw us deeply into the stygian darkness with her.
“In context of this song, the White Hellebore of the title is an alluring woman not too distant in danger from the predatory black widow, fostering both hope and despair.
“A poison and an elixir, she is stunning to behold but ever deadly to taste.
“This video — reeking of Lovecraftian gothic horror — presents the White Hellebore as a movie starlet who survives the grave through her dalliances with dark occult forces, a necromantic mystic tryst that an overzealous morgue attendant encounters with terrifying results, complimenting the song’s unholy matrimony of melody and mayhem.”
The Screaming Of The Valkyries will be released on March 21 via Napalm Records, but you can preorder your copy today. Cradle of Filth will also be co-headlining the Chaos & Carnage tour with Dying Fetus. You can check out the full list of tour dates below.
The Screaming Of The Valkyries track listing:
1. To Live Deliciously
2. Demagoguery
3. The Trinity Of Shadows
4. Non Omnis Moriar
5. White Hellebore
6. You Are My Nautilus
7. Malignant Perfection
8. Ex Sanguine Draculae
9. When Misery Was A Stranger
Chaos and Carnage tour dates:
4/20 – Phoenix, AZ @ The Van Buren
4/22 – Albuquerque, NM @ El Rey Theater
4/24 – Dallas, TX @ Granada Theater
4/26 – San Antonio, TX @ Vibes Event Center
4/27 – Houston, TX @ House of Blues
4/29 – Nashville, TN @ Brooklyn Bowl
5/01 – New York, NY @ Palladium Times Square
5/02 – Richmond, VA @ The National
5/03 – Reading, PA @ Reverb
5/04 – Worcester, MA @ The Palladium
5/06 – Montreal, QC, Canada @ L’Olympia
5/07 – Toronto, ON, Canada @ Rebel
5/08 – Pontiac, MI @ The Crofoot
5/09 – Chicago, IL @ Radius
5/10 – Des Moines, IA @ Val Air Ballroom
5/12 – Wichita, KS @ Temple Live
Cradle of Filth additional U.S. tour dates:
5/16 – Bozeman, MT @ The ELM
5/17 – Missoula, MT @ The Wilma
5/18 – Tacoma, WA @ Temple Theatre
5/20 – Boise, ID @ Revolution Center
5/21 – Reno, NV @ Virginia Street Brewhouse
5/23 – Sacramento, CA @ Ace of Spades
