Cradle of Filth reveal music video for ‘Demagoguery’

Following the release of their brand new 14th studio album The Screaming Of The Valkyries (Napalm Records) – which made stellar debuts at #2 on both the US and Canadian Hard Music Albums charts, #4 on the US Current Rock Albums chart, and more – GRAMMY Award-nominated extreme metal institution CRADLE OF FILTH have unveiled another surprise! A brand new music video for driving album track “Demagoguery” is out now, providing an eerily disturbing backdrop to the song, which blends dark beauty, blast beats and slaytanic groove as only Cradle can combine.

The video comes just in time for the band to kick off their UK/European headline tour, featuring support from label mates Nervosa, later this week! See below for a full listing of current tour dates!

“Demagoguery” music video director Shaun Hodson says about the video’s concept:

“Subject Eleven, a marionette puppet, is controlled by the media, government, and television, her every move dictated by their unseen strings. As a charismatic world leader rises, cloaked in promises of peace, the truth behind her manipulation becomes clear: she is part of a dark orchestration guiding the world toward the rise of the Antichrist.”

On The Screaming Of The Valkyries, Dani Filth’s recognizable scream and equally identifiable growl stand mightily alongside twin guitar attacks, symphonic flourishes and explosive rhythm section, implemented by drummer Martin “Marthus” Skaroupka, bassist Daniel Firth, guitarists Marek “Ashok” Smerda and Donny Burbage, and keyboardist/vocalist Zoe Federoff. Produced, recorded, mixed and mastered by Scott Atkins at Grindstone Studios in Suffolk, England, The Screaming of the Valkyries beckons the brave into a new era of CRADLE OF FILTH misadventure, celebrating massive melancholic melody, blackened thrash, and apocalyptic existential dread with a grinning smattering of unbridled revelry. The Screaming of the Valkyries is a bloody dark love letter to the longtime legion of CRADLE OF FILTH faithful and a stunning entryway for fresh lambs to the sonic slaughter.

Menacing album opener “To Live Deliciously” hits immediately with rhythmic urgency, built around a Libertine lyrical hook that twists and writhes with aggression, atmosphere, and melody. Across the album’s blunt and unforgiving yet inviting expanse, Cradle summons the succulent flavors of classic albums like Dusk And Her Embrace and Cruelty And The Beast with the galloping (but no less fierce) thunder of recent entries Hammer Of The Witches and Existence Is Futile. Flashes of early metal influences coalesce with carnivorous glee into unapologetic death ‘n’ roll.Anchored by arguably the most mournful melody in their catalog, “Non Omnis Moriar” (“I shall not wholly die”) could be a cousin to Paradise Lost or Anathema, inverted through Cradle’s thorny prism. “You Are My Nautilus” is the darkest song Iron Maiden never wrote, spinning an epic tale with dueling guitars, while “Ex Sanguine Draculae” conjures Dusk-era atmosphere with imaginative new colors.

Order The Screaming of the Valkyries HERE

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

CRADLE OF FILTH
SUMMONED IN SUMMER TOUR UK/EU
Support: NERVOSA (on select dates)

06.06.25 PL – Gdansk / Mystic Festival
07.06.25 CZ – Ostrava / Barrack
09.06.25 SK – Kosice / Colosseum
10.06.25 HU – Budapest / Barba Negra
11.06.25 AT – Salzburg / Rockhouse
12.06.25 AT – Nickelsdorf / Nova Rock
14.06.25 UK – Donington / Download Festival
27.06.25 FI – Helsinki / Tuska Festival
04.07.25 DE – Ballenstedt / Rockharz Festival
05.07.25 BE – Leffinge / De Zwerver
06.07.25 UK – Norwich / Epic Studio
08.07.25 UK – Margate / Dreamland
09.07.25 UK – Torquay / The Foundry
11.07.25 UK – Southampton / 1865
12.07.25 NL – Emmen / Pitfest
13.07.25 NL – Maastricht / Muziekgieterij
15.07.25 DE – Dortmund / Junkyard
16.07.25 DE – Bremen / Tivoli
18.07.25 DE – Aschaffenburg / Colos-Saal
19.07.25 DE – Munich / Backstage
20.07.25 IT – Cremona / Luppolo Rock Festival
21.07.25 AT – Dornbirn / Conrad Sohm
23.07.25 SK – Bratislava / MMC
24.07.25 SI – Tolmin / Tolminator Festival

CRADLE OF FILTH is:
Dani Filth – Vocals
Marek ‘Ashok’ Smerda – Guitars
Martin ‘Marthus’ Skaroupka – Drums
Daniel Firth – Bass
Donny Burbage – Guitars
Zoe Federoff – Vocals, Keys