Name: Dani Filth
Birthday:
25/07/73
Married:
Yes, to Toni.
Children:
One Daughter, Luna Scarlett, thirteen, going on twenty.
Place of residence:
Midian, England
Hobbies:
Writing, watching scary movies, collecting (toys, books, DVD's, antiques, unusual objects), driving, poetry, shopping, reading, partying, eating healthily, cleaning my cars, sports (go-karts, bowling, shooting, snowboarding, skydiving- all when the opportunity arises).
Musical background:
Used to sing for bands like Feast On Excrement, The Lemon Grove Kids, Carnival Fruitcake, PDA, Blez, back in the day before I was any good.
Equipment:
Throat and wireless shure SM58 (live), Neumann (studio).
Idols in Music:
Diamanda Galas, Liszt, Hank Sherman, Jeff Wayne, Danny Elfman, Wojciech Kilar, anybody else.
Best CoF show so far:
Los Angeles, 04, Bulgaria '08.
Fave CoF songs to perform:
Funeral In Carpathia, Queen Of Winter Throned, The Death Of Love, Nemesis, Under Huntress Moon, The Black Goddess Rises.
How do you kill time on tour:
Relaxing, shopping, sight-seeing, reading, poetry, meeting friends, sleeping. Indulging.
Strangest experience on tour:
It's all strange!
Place you would like to visit, but haven't:
Egypt, New Zealand, Maine, Iceland, the Serengeti.
Your fave bands:
Mercyful Fate, Danzig, The Misfits, Hanzel und Gretel, At The Gates, King Diamond, Dissection, Immortal, Craft, Satyricon, Destruction, Emperor, Bad Religion, Philip Glass, The Prodigy, Limbo, Iron Maiden, AC/DC, Judas Priest, HIM, Morbid Angel, Paradise Lost, The 69 Eyes, Fantomas, VNV Nation, The Sisters, Mayhem, The Spook, Type O Negative, Wojciech Kilar, Diamanda Galas, Wumpscut, CKY, HIM, Danny Elfman, Jeff Wayne, Infected Mushroom, GGFH, Rammstein, Carpathian Forest, Eighties thrash- Sabbat, Blood Money, Sacrifice, Darkness, Testament, Kreator, Suicidal Tendencies, Violent Force, Exorcist, Slayer, Razor, Bathory, Possessed, Metallica, Celtic Frost, Sodom, Venom, etc; classic American hardcore-Circle Jerks, Bad Brains, Dagnasty, Uniform Choice, Fear etc; Pompous classical music, European darkwave, dark vampyric funeral marches, nocturnal war anthems and heart-rending melodrama.
Soundtracks-Sleepy Hollow, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, The Omen trilogy, Stargate, The Mummy, Interview With The Vampire, Van Helsing, Hellraiser, Death And The Maiden, The Ninth Gate, Gladiator, 1492, Dracula Rising, Edward Scissorhands, Nightbreed, Troy, Candyman, Mythodea, X-men 2, The Mephisto Waltz, The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy, Elizabeth, Pan's Labyrinth, The Frighteners, Perfume, From Hell, Hallowe'en, The Third Mother etc,etc.
Fave films:
Curse Of The Demon, The Pit And The Pendulum, Coppola's Dracula, Shelley's Frankenstein, The Nightmare Before Xmas, Underworld(s), Blade, The Howling, Dog Soldiers, Dracula Rising, Nightwatch,Van Helsing, Aliens, Sleepy Hollow, From Hell, The Masque Of The Red Death (in fact all Roger Corman's Poe adaptations), The Omen trilogy, X-men films, The Ninth Gate, Pirates Of The Caribbean, good Zombie movies, Cradle Of Fear, Saw, A Company Of Wolves, Star Wars et al, The Devils, Hellboy, Frontieres, Storm Warning, Haxan, House of 1000 Corpses/The Devil's Rejects, The Host, The Hills Have Eyes, The Exorcist, The Wicker Man, The Abominable Dr Phibes, The Cabinet Of Dr Caligari, From Dusk Till Dawn, Deep Rising, V For Vendetta, Dagon, Candyman, 16 Tongues, Corpse Bride, The Ring, Darkness, Brain Dead, Tales From The Crypt, Tenebre,Suspiria, Dreams In The Witch House, Event Horizon, In The Mouth Of Madness, Hallowe'en, Ilsa-She Wolf, Interview With The Vampire, Psycho, Sin City, 28 Days Later, 28 Months Later, Singapore Sling, Texas Chainsaw, Don't Look now, Irreversible, Constantine, Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Troy, Kingdom Of Heaven, Brotherhood Of The Wolf, The Libertine, Lemony Snicket, Descent, Hostel, Murder-Set-Pieces, Snow White, Salon Kitty, Withnail and I, Rosemary's Baby, Nightbreed, Pan's Labyrinth, The Devil's Backbone, Hot Fuzz, 300, Hannibal, Prince Of Darkness, The Thing, Hammer Horrors, Universal Monsters, Hellraisers 1and 2, Carry On movies, Fifties B-movies, modern B-movies and stylish, good looking secretary porn.
Fave food/drink:
Green smoothies, traditional English Sunday roast, seafood, vanilla soya milk, Indian, Thai and Chinese restaurant food, children-burgers, champagne; salmon, scrambled eggs and garlic-fried spinach. Parma violet sweets.
3 favourite books to take with you on a lonely island:
The Gospel Of Filth
Baudelaire's Fleur Du Mal
Blood And Roses - Various vampire stories
Your religion:
Luciferian
Any favourite drug:
Madcap rollercoasters
Where do you gain sexual pleasure from:
My erogenous zones and my wife
With which character out of literary and cinematic history could you identify with the most:
Roderick Usher, The Daleks, Darth Vader, (Capt) Jack Sparrow, Elizabeth Bathory, Lord Byron, Frankenstein's Monster.
If you had a time machine into which epoch would you travel:
The Victorian era, the late Cretaceous period, the Ramses dynasty, future vampire mutant world.
Which inscription would you like to see on your tombstone one day:
'Gone But Not Forgiven', 'I Told You I Was Sick' or 'Denn Die Toten Reiten Schnell'.
And which 5 albums do you take with you into eternity then:
Jeff Wayne's The War Of The Worlds
Bram Stoker's Dracula - Wojciech Kilar
Emperor - In The Night side Eclipse
Mercyful Fate - Don't Break The Oath
Destruction - Infernal Overkill
Message to the fans:
Stay filthy!
Check out our tour dates!
Instead of sending me e-mails, please leave me comments as I don't have much time to go through them all!
Dear voracious night-gaunts,
Salutations from the void as we prepare for the sweltering morbidity of Summer and the rigorous studio session that awaits the band as we prepare to begin recording our new, as yet untitled, tenth studio album (though there are numerous titles floating about the ether, most of them ludicrous, some a little more befitting…).
April 21st is the day that our much-anticipated 'Midnight In The Labyrinth' orchestral album is to be…
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Yo homeys! Dani here again from the next exciting installment of my tour
diary, carefully composed between the final bouts of My Mexican Vengeance,
several Walmart stops and many weird experiences born of moving from one
place to the other in swift succession.
We left off last time adrift in the tranquil bliss of budget Motel
car-parks. The next day finds us in Seattle where I abscond early to visit
my friend Jack Matisse who tattoos at Apocalypse on…
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GD Dani !
Midnight is wonderful ... !!
Great , great album
Svaka čast !!!!
Hi, dany, when comming to Japan?
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Just like a hellfest dani filth and paul allender
Thank's for watch and if you all member site please follow back me
hello my fellow poet
HEY DANI HOW ARE YOU DOING ? HOPE YOU HAVE A WEEK AND GOOD LUCK WITH YOOUR SONG AND STUDIO TIME AND HOPE YOU ARE HAVING A GREAT TIME WITH YOU FAMILY AND TELL TONI I SAY HAPPY MOTHERS DAY FOR SUNDAY I THINK (I KNOW SHE DOESNT KNOW ME BUT JUST SAY THAT FOR ME PLEASE) AND THANKS
REGARDS NADINE
Hey Dan, I hope you had a lovely weekend... xx
Hi Dani
How are you been?
Greetings My Lord!!!
See you later
Привет Dani!От личного тебе настроения!Я люблю тебя очень,целую много раз_)) :-*
Hey Dani, i dreamed with you last night, you where at my room teching me some rituals, i would like you to provide me some pdf's
Dani I've been listening to Midnight In The Labyrinth since it came out. I just want to thank you and everybody else that was involved in making such an epic album.
-k
Hi Dani,
I really enjoy listening to "Midnight in the Labyrinth". I´ve listened to it several times and it´s getting better with every turn.
Hey Dan, I finally received my copy of "Midnight in the Labyrinth" today, and all I can say is, awesome work! It is amazing! xx
Hello Dani i am new to your website. i made something for the whole band that i think u will really like ---> download.jpeg. hope u enjoy ur pic. \m/
Greeting dani>>>>>>please come to my country>>>>>i love your music........
do you know how to astral project i know you do
come on daniel im waiting been waiting
Hey Dan, I love you in "This is my curse"! xx
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