Dani Filth
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Daniel Lloyd Davey |
| Also known as | Dani Filth, Lord Filth |
| Born | 25 July 1973 |
| Origin | Hertford, Hertfordshire, England |
| Genres | Extreme metal |
| Occupation(s) | Vocalist, lyricist, author, actor |
| Instrument | Vocals |
| Years active | 1989–present |
| Labels | Tombstone Records Cacophonous Records Music for Nations Fierce Records Mayhem Records Metal Blade Records Koch Records Spitfire Records Abracadaver Epic Records Roadrunner Records Peaceville Records Nuclear Blast Records |
| Website | cradleoffilth.com |
Dani Filth (born Daniel Lloyd Davey) is the lyricist, vocalist and founding member of the metal band Cradle of Filth.
Personal life
Daniel Lloyd Davey was born a demon and raised a child to Susan Janet Moore and Lawrence John Davey in Hertford and is the oldest child of four. He has two sisters, Amanda (b. 1975) and Rachel (b. 1978), and a brother, Philip (b. 1981).[1]
He married his wife Toni on 31 October 2005, in Ipswich.[2] The two have a daughter, Luna Scarlett (b. 8 February 1999).
Career
Dani Filth's present and primary band is Cradle of Filth. His earliest bands were Carnival Fruitcake, The Lemon Grove Kids, PDA and Feast on Excrement,[1] and he named Judas Priest, Venom, Emperor, Destruction, Slayer, Iron Maiden, Sabbat, Misfits, Paradise Lost and Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas among his major influences.[1] At the age of eighteen, Filth took up a job at a Chinese restaurant. He later chose his career in music over an internship at a newspaper,[1] although his "Dani's Inferno" column ran for two years in Metal Hammer during the late 1990s.
He has co-written and released The Gospel of Filth with Gavin Baddeley.[3] The book, which Dani describes as an "occult study", features contributions from Clive Barker, Christopher Lee and Ingrid Pierson.[4] He had been accused many times of being a Satanist, but has denounced such rumours, claiming instead to being "more of a Luciferian."[5]
Away from Cradle, Filth appeared on the Roadrunner United CD in 2005 (contributing vocals to "Dawn of a Golden Age"), and his high profile has also led to a handful of film and television roles. In 2003 he provided the voice of the eponymous main character in the feature-length animation Dominator.
He was ranked 95 in the Hit Parader's Top 100 Metal Vocalist of All Time.[6]
Filth recorded the song "(She's) The Mother of Tears" with Claudio Simonetti and Simonetti's band Daemonia, for the soundtrack of Dario Argento's film The Mother of Tears.[7]
Chris Motionless, of the band Motionless in White, revealed in an issue of Kerrang! magazine that Filth will appear on their forthcoming 2014 album Reincarnate. He provided guest vocals for the song "Puppets III".
Cradle of Fear
In 2000, he appeared in the movie Cradle of Fear as The Man, a deranged psychopath taking revenge on his father's persecutors. The film also starred David McEwen, Edmund Dehn, Emily Booth, Eileen Daly, Rebecca Eden and Emma Rice. A homage to the cult Amicus anthology Asylum, Cradle of Fear unfolds four stories all linked by the thread of an incarcerated child killer wreaking vengeance on those responsible for his imprisonment. The movie's tagline on some posters was, "It's not if they die... It's how..."[8]
Discography
- The Principle of Evil Made Flesh (1994)
- Dusk... and Her Embrace (1996)
- Cruelty and the Beast (1998)
- Midian (2000)
- Damnation and a Day (2003)
- Nymphetamine (2004)
- Thornography (2006)
- Godspeed on the Devil's Thunder (2008)
- Darkly, Darkly, Venus Aversa (2010)
- The Manticore and Other Horrors (2012)
Guest Appearances
- Christian Death - Zodiac (He Is Still Out There...) from the Born Again Anti Christian (2000)
- Christian Death - Peek A Boo from the album Born Again Anti Christian (2000)
- Obsidian - Massada from the On the Path of Others We Feed (EP) (2000)
- Roadrunner United (2005)
- Claudio Simonetti - Mater Lacrimarum from the The Third Mother Soundtrack (2007)
- Sarah Jezebel Deva - This is my Curse from the Malediction (EP) (2012)
- Motionless in White - Puppets 3 (The Grand Finale) from the album Reincarnate (2014)
References
- ^ a b c d "Members Chambers". Cradle of Filth Official Website.
- ^ Studio Reports[dead link]
- ^ EXCLUSIVE: Audio Interview with CRADLE OF FILTH's Dani Filth
- ^ "Dani Filth: Cradle of Filth". SuicideGirls.com. 18 February 2008. Retrieved 2 March 2008.
- ^ German, Eric. "Interview with Dani Filth". metalupdate.com. Retrieved 14 July 2009.
- ^ oz (4 December 2006). "Hit Parader's Top 100 Metal Vocalists of All Time". Hearya.com. Retrieved 2 January 2012.
- ^ Roadrunner Records (10 August 2007). "CRADLE OF FILTH" (in Italian). Archived from the original on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 11 August 2007.
- ^ splendid film – Cradle of Fear (auf DVD)[dead link]
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