Cradle Of Filth Drummer Officially Gone
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After months of rumors and speculation, British extreme metallers Cradle Of Filth have officially confirmed the departure of drummer Adrian Erlandsson. According to an official press release, "Erlandsson has found that his two side projects Needleye and Nemhain are taking up more and more of his time and has made the decision to leave Cradle Of Filth so he can concentrate more of his energies on them."
Commented Adrian: "I have enjoyed my time with Cradle but it is now time to move on. I feel I am going out on a high as 'Thornography' is definitely our best album to date."
Over the course of the last few months, rumors of Adrian's departure have been gaining strength, with several "in-the-know" parties claiming that Adrian was fired from the group just days before they were to sign a new publishing deal. As a result, it was reported (but not officially confirmed) that Erlandsson was relegated to the status of a "session" member (whereby he was paid only for time worked and was not entitled to any publishing or artist royalties), a situation which was rumored to have strained his relationship with the band's frontman Dani Davey (a.k.a. Dani Filth).
In the last few weeks, Erlandsson — a native Swede who was in At The Gates and The Haunted prior to joining Cradle Of Filth — has been getting increasingly involved in outside projects — such as Nemhain (which is fronted by Erlandsson's wife, fetish model Morrigan Hel; a.k.a. Amber England) and Needleye — culminating in his non-appearance in Cradle Of Filth's new video for the song "Temptation".
Source: blabbermouth
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my fav. COF album was Dusk... And Her Embrace but i liked Thornography, didnt like Nymphatamine, i got into COF through Midian when i heard that the former At The Gates drummer was playin that album then i thought to myself he almost beat his work on Slaughter of the Soul (almost is the key word)
good luck replaceing that kinda talent
You f***ing morons, Adrian is f***ing rat piss compared to their ORIGINAL drummer Nicholas Barker. How bout we start using names like the Vempire album, or Total f***ing Darkness. Paul is not an original member as far as I am concerned. The line-up that made Cradle who they are was Dani, Stuart, Gian, Damien, Nick, Robin. Midian was Cradles "Black album" as it began the downfall of their respect from true fans. Nobody can ever argue this to me personally, this is how it is. Does not matter how many swears you use, how many insults, etc... I will never stray from my belief that this band sucks extreme homo donkey balls now, and they were much better before Midian.
Get over it, Cradle have evolved, Yeah, Thornography might not be their best, but it keeps it interesting. Do we want AC/DC from start to finish, the same f@%#ing album 50 times? I think not. Barker kicked butt, listen to Old Man's Child, drummers don't make a huge diff unless u r Dave Lombardo, Filth kick butt, can't wait for the next evolution
Man I love narrowminded people!!
Music should evolve! You cannot expect a band to play for 10 years the same kind of crap. Yeah, I know, a lot of you guys DO expect bands to play the same-sh**ty-underproduced-bloody-uncraftsman-bullsh** like most Black Metal bands (which cradle started out as) such as Mardu(c)k, Bur(p)zum, Belphegor(e) to name but a few. Because if they become sell-outs (like cradle is referred to since Nymphy) it is not underground enough and ungh... my black make-upped gothic friends wont respect me anymore!!
It simply states, in my eyes, that most people in the extreme music scene (both listeners and makers) are acting like kids in school: want to be cool for the other kids instead of work hard, improve my skills to make more money like every grown-up does.
Finally, if cradle would still make the same underproduced icky sounding crap that venomous spreads from your speakers when launching Principles, they wouldn't be reaching such a big audience>;would not make money>;hence, would make you, the listeners pay more for taxes they would claim with wellfare what money they would use again to pay for making more crappy-narrowminded-c***-music.
Phalleluja!!
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hahahaha. Why does this not surprise me? Because this band changes members more than any other band ever. The only original member is Daniel Davey. For f*** sakes they are getting so f***ing stupid lately I wouldnt be surprised if his shrimpy a$$ started using his real "Davey" name instead of "Filth", just so he could be a little emo and appeal even more to the Hot Topic crowd!