CRADLE OF FILTH

[Captain Crunch]

Pah, in the good old days, all you needed to do was to run someone over with their own tourbus.  I take all those Black Metal Exploits with a huge pinch of salt, some of it's just a case of the Emperor's New Clothes (arf arf), but entertaining nonetheless.

[dark_angel666]

i like the name dark_angel666 and by the way im from finland

[Purple Tentacle]

i like the name dark_angel666 and by the way im from finland

Ooooh ooh! Could someone get Tom Rad to do a quick legitimacy test???

[Lumiere]

Pah, in the good old days, all you needed to do was to run someone over with their own tourbus.  I take all those Black Metal Exploits with a huge pinch of salt, some of it's just a case of the Emperor's New Clothes (arf arf), but entertaining nonetheless.

The Mayhem thing is 100% true.

Varg's in prison now.

[Krang]

Cradle of Filth = Dimmu Borgir

[mayer]

the Cradle To Enslave video freaked me the hell out when i saw it on the telly, on VH1 of all places.

lots of blood, boobs, and razorblades.

[Captain Crunch]

Cradle of Filth = Dimmu Borgir

Shouldn't that be the other way round?

[Tom Rad]

i like the name dark_angel666 and by the way im from finland

Ooooh ooh! Could someone get Tom Rad to do a quick legitimacy test???

So what do you want me to do? Set a quick grammar test ("Decline 'a drink' in fifteen cases")? Or shall I just prod him with a stick and see if he shouts "Älä nyt vittu töki mua sillä kepillä!!"?

[Neville Chamberlain]

Dimmu Borgir means "dark castle" in Icelandic. Oooooh! Scary!

[Lumiere]

Cradle of Filth = Dimmu Borgir

What do you mean?

[Captain Crunch]

The Mayhem thing is 100% true.

Varg's in prison now.

Have you heard any of his 'new' stuff (done from behind bars)?  I think a charity worker gave him a Bontempi and now he's writing stuff about race, purity and the hollow mother sun.  Or so I've heard...

[Neville Chamberlain]

Yes, he goes under the name Burzum and you can read all about his Bontempi classics here.

Strange chap, all in all.

[Captain Crunch]

Of course, he of the T-shirt fame.  I'm a novice at all this Black Metal stuff and I'm easily confused so excuse me.  However, I did meet Satyricon a couple of months back so I do have some BM cred.  (I say meet, they didn't answer when I did my loveable cockney 'Awright mate!' at them.  I wonder why).

[Krang]

Cradle of Filth = Dimmu Borgir

What do you mean?

Well, im not sure who was about first, but its either Cradle of Filth = Dimmu Borgir, or the other way (was that what you were getting at Captain Crunch?)

Anyway, ive got some Cradle of Filth and some Dimmu Borgir, and they both seem very very much alike. Ive never been into either really, i like Cradles cover of Hallowed be thy name.

I perfer Children of Bodom, Dark Tranqillity and Opeth.

[BetaKarraTene]

In 1992, someone wrote a rather derogatory piece on black metal for a Norwegian paper.

No joke, the guy was found dead, floating in a river a few days later.

In 1994, Kerrang took the piss out of Cradle Of Filth. A drunken Dani Filth made a couple of threatening phone calls, and the next morning a five point star had been daubed (in spooky red) on the front door to the kerrang offices.

Note to self: killing people = artistic integrity

[mayer]

Note to self: killing people = artistic integrity

well. you've got to kill some people, anyway, you can't kill everybody... uh, 'cause you wouldn't have anybody left to respect if you did. </VM>

[Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth]

Lumiere wrote:

In 1992, someone wrote a rather derogatory piece on black metal for a Norwegian paper.

No joke, the guy was found dead, floating in a river a few days later.

Wow. What an utter shower of fucking bastards. Does that mean if any of us say anything bad about black metal we should expect a bunch of maladjusted arseholes to come and sacrifice us to satan?

[Lumiere]

Probably.

I dare someone to give it a go. I'll chuck a fiver in your grave if ya do.

[A Passing Turk Slipper]

They are proper crazy bastards aren't they. I remember reading an article about the Norwegian black metal scene, weren't there loads of band rivalries which often ended with one band member murdering one of the others then them getting murdered as well? They all go around burning down churches as well don't they.

[Krang]

I heard a story that the lead singer of one band left to join their rivals, as their new bassist. Then stabbed their lead singer to death.

[Lumiere]

I heard a story that the lead singer of one band left to join their rivals, as their new bassist. Then stabbed their lead singer to death.

That's Mayhem.

[Fuckwittio]

Were Mayhem the band that had a singer who changed his name to 'Dead' and then killed himself, so all his band mates messed around with his corpse, hacking it up and taking some wacky pictures of them rolling around in his entrails and such?

Call me a sicko if you like, but that's one of the funniest rock and roll anecdotes I've ever heard.

[Lumiere]

Were Mayhem the band that had a singer who changed his name to 'Dead' and then killed himself.

That much is true. The rest is pap, although one chap ate segments of dead's brain, another used segments of dead's skull to make a necklace and another chap took pictures of dead's corpse.

[Fuckwittio]

Were Mayhem the band that had a singer who changed his name to 'Dead' and then killed himself.

That much is true. The rest is pap, although one chap ate segments of dead's brain, another used segments of dead's skull to make a necklace and another chap took pictures of dead's corpse.

Actually, that makes it even funnier. The whole idea of changing your name to 'Dead' and then killing yourself just cracks me up.

What a wacky bunch of guys.

[Lumiere]

Dead was also the chap who's quoted as saying

"If my girlfriend dies before I do, I will misuse her corpse!"

and was also the chap who ate a dead crow before singing live. "He had to have the taste of death" said Euronymous.

Also, a chap hammered a nail into his own skull to get noticed by Mayhem. He didn't get noticed.