After selling out their last Australian tour and racking up a string of arrests for their merch, Cradle of Filth return co-headlining with DevilDriver for five shows this winter.
In 1993, a band from a tiny village in Suffolk made a t-shirt so offensive that no local printer would touch it. They eventually found someone in a neighbouring village willing to do it covertly, cash-in-hand, and handed over the screens immediately after, because he didn’t want them on the premises. The shirt featured a masturbating nun on the front and the phrase “Jesus is a c***” on the back. A fan in London was convicted under the 1839 policing act for wearing it. The band’s own drummer was arrested at Dover. A 16-year-old on the Gold Coast was stopped by police while walking down the street in Biggera Waters and charged with public nuisance — then cops went to Australia Fair to hunt down whichever shop had sold it to him. That band is Cradle of Filth, and they’re heading back to Australia this July.
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The Grammy-nominated extreme metal institution are 34 years deep and 14 albums in, and now co-headlining with American groove metal heavyweights DevilDriver for a five-city run. Cradle of Filth sold out their last Australian tour, upgrading Melbourne venues and still filling them. This time, they arrive armed with The Screaming of the Valkyries and three decades of theatrical blackened gothic metal that somehow also involves an unreleased collaboration with Ed Sheeran.
DevilDriver brings a different kind of punishment. Since building their legacy since 2002 across 10 studio albums of groove-laden, riff-heavy chaos, DevilDriver remain one of the most visceral live acts in American metal. Fronted by Dez Fafara, expect a career-spanning set that pulls no punches.
Both acts are bringing full headline sets to Australia.
Tour dates:
Thursday 9 July: The Tivoli, Brisbane
Friday 10 July: The Enmore, Sydney
Saturday 11 July: The Forum, Melbourne
Tuesday 14 July: Hindley Street Music Hall, Adelaide
Thursday 16 July: The Astor, Perth
Pre-sale kicks off today, Thursday 26 February, at 9:00am local time. General public on sale follows Monday 2 March at 9:00am local.
Tickets are available via thephoenix.au or metropolistouring.com.
