CRADLE OF FILTH discuss »Hammer Of The Witches« artwork

20th June 2015 Thomas Nielsen News 0

Barbarous hellhounds CRADLE OF FILTH are set to release their forthcoming album »Hammer Of The Witches« on July 10th via Nuclear Blast Records.  In anticipation of the release, we asked the band’s verbose mouthpiece of Hell to tell us a bit more about the album artwork – watch as Dani Filth explains all here: http://youtu.be/fL6jInrLTBA
The artwork was created by Arthur Berzinsh (http://www.berzinsh.lv) who is best known for his defiant neo-symbolism raster graphics and oil paintings, postmodern interpretations of classic myths and refined hooliganism in the playground of contemporary art. He has been proclaimed as a “sacred monster of Latvian postmodernism”. And rightly so, his visually expressive and mannerly works tend to trigger emotions which can make thoughts fidget and wriggle, unable to find a comfortable position among the impressions gathered. His creative work is characterized by a varied range of voluptuous erotica, intensified imagery, dream-like scenes and decorativeness weighed down by visual metaphors and contrasts teetering on the edge of symbolism.
The band’s highly anticipated and caliginous creation was brought to fruition in Britain’s Witch County, in darkest rural Suffolk at the reputedly haunted Grindstone Studios. The album’s title is named after the ‘Malleus Maleficarum’, a medieval document of guidelines regarding the persecution and torture of witches – but CRADLE OF FILTH‘s title version is more retributory: It’s the »Hammer Of The Witches«; the hammer is in the witches’ hands and it’s payback time.

»Hammer Of The Witches« track list:
01. Walpurgis Eve
02. Yours Immortally…
03. Enshrined In Crematoria
04. Deflowering The Maidenhead, Displeasuring The Goddess
05. Blackest Magick In Practice
06. The Monstrous Sabbat (Summoning The Coven)
07. Hammer Of The Witches
08. Right Wing Of The Garden Triptych
09. The Vampyre At My Side
10. Onward Christian Soldiers
11. Blooding The Hounds Of Hell
Bonus Tracks:
12. King Of The Woods
13. Misericord

More on »Hammer Of The Witches«:
‘Right Wing Of The Garden Triptych’ music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2Y4uZ0rnRk
‘Right Wing Of The Garden Triptych’ making of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU_Rv9AUUCY
»Hammer Of The Witches« album trailer 1 (album): http://youtu.be/u3lNhek-hjs
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When my old buddy Kenn Jensen asked me if I wanted to contribute to the new site he had created, then called powermetal.dk, I didn't hesitate. My love for metal music was and is great. I wrote my first review during the summer of 2004 (Moonspell's 'Antidote' album). In 2015, I took over the editor-in-chief role.
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