The song is the third from their forthcoming studio album
Extreme metal institution Cradle of Filth is back to give fans more of the sinful sounds they crave with “White Hellebore,” another bewitching new single and music video from their forthcoming 14th studio album, The Screaming of the Valkryies, due on March 21st via Napalm Records. The track is devilishly direct, juxtaposing traditional heavy metal with blasts of thrashing fury, then spinning back to operatic goth while remaining cohesive. The track’s must-see new music video was directed by Shaun Hodson.
“The wintertime flower of the title reminds us scintillatingly of our own mortality, flourishing in seasons of dying light and cold, frozen earth,” frontman Dani Filth shares of the song and video. “Blossoming in the shadows, this Hellebore’s flowers draw us deeply into the stygian darkness with her. In context of this song, the White Hellebore of the title is an alluring woman not too distant in danger from the predatory black widow, fostering both hope and despair. A poison and an elixir, she is stunning to behold but ever deadly to taste.”
He continues, “This video — reeking of Lovecraftian gothic horror — presents the White Hellebore as a movie starlet who survives the grave through her dalliances with dark occult forces, a necromantic mystic tryst that an overzealous morgue attendant encounters with terrifying results, complimenting the song’s unholy matrimony of melody and mayhem.”
Following the release of 2021’s Existence Is Futile, Cradle of Filth emerge again with a legacy-cementing opus. On The Screaming Of The Valkyries, 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 the band’s 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.
Cradle will co-headline the 2025 edition of the North American Chaos & Carnage Tour, featuring fellow co-headliners Dying Fetus, as well as Fleshgod Apocalypse, Ne Obliviscaris, Undeath, Vomit Forth and Corpse Pile. The trek kicks off on April 17th in Berkley, California and runs through May 14th in Denver.
