Name: Dani Filth, aka Lord Filth, Count Backwerdz, Daniel Lloyd Davey, Preach Litanies.

Facebook: Dani Filth's Official Facebook

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Eyes: Yes. Grey somedays, blue others.

Birthday: 25/07/73

Star sign: Leo the Lion.

Places of residence:
Midian,

Suffolk, EnglandThe Astral Plane
Tour Bus
Hotels
Bed

 

Hobbies:
Writing stuff, watching scary movies, collecting (toys, books, DVD's, masks, antiques, unusual foreign objects), nature, driving, poetry, shopping, reading, partying, dining out, cinema, theme parks, castles, witchcraft, vacuuming (seriously!), washing my cars. Sports: football, boxing, go-karting, bowling, cycling, darts, video games (driving/shooting or driving and shooting), watching the grand prix, snowboarding (rarely-no mountains in Suffolk, just lots of small hillocks!).

Favourite sports team (if any): Queens Park Rangers FC -'Up the R's or not at all!'
Mercedes F1 racing team.

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 picky.

 

Musical Foreground:
Cradle Of Filth
Devilment
Temple of the Black Moon

Equipment: Throat and wireless shure SM58 (live), Neumann (studio), Ultimate Ears in-ear monitors, great monitor engineers, X-ray vision contact lenses (they don't work on blokes)...

Endorsements: Lily Syx designs, Audi, Disturbia Clothing,  Kate's Clothing, Hysteria Machine, Hades shoes

Idols in Life and Music:
Diamanda Galas, Berlioz, Liszt, Stravinsky, King Diamond and Hank Sherman, Jeff Wayne, Johnny Depp, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Vincent Price, Yvonne De Carlo, Jane Seymour, Scarlet Johansonn, Bob Monkhouse, Danny Elfman, Wojciech Kilar, Charlize Theron, Hans Zimmer, Glenn Danzig, Tom Hardy, Doug Bradley, My Grandpa.

 

Best CoF show so far: Los Angeles 04, Bulgaria '08, Czech Republic '11, Grasspop '11, Wacken '15, Atlantic Ocean '16, Las Vegas '16, Seattle '16, Cincinnati '16

Fave CoF songs to perform live:
Funeral In Carpathia, Queen Of Winter Throned, A Gothic Romance, Born In A Burial Gown, The Death Of Love, Doberman Pharaoh, Nemesis, Under Huntress Moon, The Black Goddess Rises, Honey And Sulphur, Lilith Immaculate, Manticore, For Your Vulgar Delectation, Blackest Magick In Practise, Yours Immortally

Songs you'd like to perform live: Hell Awaits, Hallowed Be Thy Name, Bestial Lust, Sleepless, Death Comes Ripping, Devil To The Metal, Alice In Hell, Forever Autumn

How do you kill time on tour: Relaxing, shopping, sight-seeing, reading, poetry, shopping, meeting friends, sleeping, shopping, showering, watching movies, Indulging, playing neck-breaking metal concerts, dancing strangely.

Strangest experience on tour: It's all fugging strange! But 70,000 Tons of Metal Aboard a cruise liner bound for Jamaica was pretty weird, but in a good way.

 

Place you would like to visit, but haven't: Egypt, New Zealand, Maine, the Serengeti, Tibet, Eden, R'lyeh, Mars

Pet hates:
Normality, insincerity, selfishness, litter, dust, sponge, baggy trousers on women, boring miserable people, people, nazis and religious zealots, bad remakes, cruelty without purpose, Dr Who without Daleks, queuing, having my tongue torn out by the root, dry sandwiches, Immigration and lying fucking bastards (I've told you a trillion times, DO NOT exaggerate!).

Your fave bands:
Mercyful Fate, Ghost, Danzig, Samhain, The Misfits,  King Diamond, Dissection, Immortal, Craft, Emperor, Bad Religion, Philip Glass, The Prodigy, Limbo, Iron Maiden, AC/DC, Judas Priest, Bathory, HIM, Morbid Angel, At The Gates, Paradise Lost, Ghost, The Doors, Godseed, Satyricon, Entombed, Fantomas, E.S Posthumus, Moonspell, Ignite, Nachtmystium, Deathspell Omega, The Sisters, Hanzel und Gretel, Type O Negative, Wojciech Kilar, Diamanda Galas, The Bronx, Danny Elfman, Jeff Wayne, Faith No More, Autopsy, Infected Mushroom, GGFH, WASP, Rammstein, Rotting Christ etc, etc.

Eighties thrash- Destruction, Slayer, Razor, Death, Sabbat, Metallica, Annihilator, Sacrifice, Darkness, Forbidden,Testament, Voivod, Kreator, Suicidal Tendencies, Violent Force, Minotaur, Papsmear, Exorcist, Possessed, Agony, Bloodfeast, Dark Angel, Mace, Whiplash, Celtic Frost, Slaughter, Sodom, Venom, Agent Steel, Blood Money etc;

Classic American hardcore- Circle Jerks, Bad Brains, Gang Green, 7 Seconds, Dagnasty, Uniform Choice, Dr Know, Fear, Screeching Weasel, Bold, Youth Of Today, Cro-Mags, Gorilla Biscuits, DK etc;

Pompous classical music, European darkwave, dark vampyric funeral marches, nocturnal war anthems and heart-rending melodrama.

And cheesy eighties pop (Phillip Davey's super eighties best-of-the-messed fest tapes)- Ultravox, Europe, Hot Butter, Visage, King, Village People, Queen, Stan Ridgeway etc,etc.

Soundtracks - Bram Stoker's Dracula, Sleepy Hollow, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Hellraiser 1 & 2, The Omen trilogy, Stargate, The Mummy, Interview With The Vampire, Children Of The Corn,  The Empire Strikes Back, The Forbidden Shadow, Drag Me To Hell, Event Horizon, Haunted, The Fountain, The Possession, Van Helsing, Death And The Maiden, The Dark Knight Rises, The Ninth Gate, Gladiator, 1492, Edward Scissorhands, Nightbreed, The Revenant, Dracula Rising, Legend, Brotherhood Of The Wolf, Candyman, Mythodea, X-men 3, The Fly, The Mephisto Waltz, The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy, Elizabeth, Pan's Labyrinth, The Horror Of Dracula, The Frighteners, The Woman In Black, Perfume, From Hell, Alien 3, Hallowe'en, The Grey, Snow White And The Huntsman, The Third Mother, Legion etc, etc.

Favourite films (as with all else, in no discernible order, plus possibly loads missing):

Curse Of The Demon, The Pit And The Pendulum, Coppola's Dracula, Shelley's Frankenstein, The Nightmare Before Xmas, Steven King adaptations, Underworld(s), Blade, The Howling, Dog Soldiers, Dracula Rising, Van Helsing, Alien(s), Sleepy Hollow, From Hell, The Masque Of The Red Death (in fact all Roger Corman's Poe renditions), Batman(s),The Omen trilogy, X-men films, The Ninth Gate, Pirates Of The Caribbean, An American Werewolf In London, Cradle Of Fear, Saw(s), Waz, A Company Of Wolves, Star Wars et al minus one, The Devils, Hellboy, Frontieres, Inside, Martyrs (both), Storm Warning, Haxan, House of 1000 Corpses/The Devil's Rejects, The Host, The Birds, Frenzy, The Hills Have Eyes, Avengers Assemble/Age Of Ultron, The Winter Soldier, Antman, The Exorcist, The Wicker Man, The Abominable Dr Phibes, La Sombra Prohibida, Rec. (1 and 2), I Spit On Your Grave, The Cabinet Of Dr Caligari, From Dusk Till Dawn, Deep Rising, V For Vendetta, Dagon, Candyman, 16 Tongues, Corpse Bride, The Ring, Ichi The Killer, Darkness, Brain Dead, Mama, Tales From The Crypt, Tenebre, Suspiria, I Saw The Devil, Dreams In The Witch House, The Fly, Fearless Vampire Killers, Event Horizon, In The Mouth Of Madness, Black Swan, The Hobbit, Hallowe'en, Ilsa-She Wolf, Interview With The Vampire, Psycho, The Spirit, Sin City, 28 Days Later, 28 Months Later, Seven, Troll Hunter, Super 8, Singapore Sling, Texas Chainsaw, Don't Look Now, 'The Girl With'… Trilogy, Murder Set Pieces, Drag Me To Hell, Invasion Of The Body Snatchers, Galaxy Quest, GOTG, Rush, Antichrist, Starship Troopers, Constantine, John Wick, Pacific Rim, Coraline, Cannibal Ferox, Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, The Wolfman, It Follows, Brotherhood Of The Wolf, The Libertine, Lemony Snicket, Descent, Hostel, Snow White, 10 Cloverfield Lane, Salon Kitty, The Revenant, Nightcrawler, Hitchcock, Perfume, Withnail and I, Rosemary's Baby, Nightbreed, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Bedknobs And Broomsticks, Fantasia, Toy Story(s), Watership Down, American Mary, Gone Girl, Pan's Labyrinth, The Devil's Backbone, Hot Fuzz, 300, Silence Of The Lambs, Hannibal, Rambo, Indiana Jones, Prince Of Darkness, The Thing, Mad Max, Hammer Horrors, Universal Monsters, Hellraisers 1and 2, Carry On movies, The Munsters, Rob Zombie movies, The Addams Family, James Bond, Sherlock Holmes, good Zombie flicks, Fifties B-movies, giant monster films, modern B-movies and stylish, good looking nylon secretary porn.
Etc, etc...

 

Fave food/drink:
Green Lovecraftian smoothies, traditional English Sunday roast, the Princess Diana ray of hope 'Full English' breakfast, German meat banquets laden hosen with red cabbage and dumplings;  Sushi, pickled mer-fruits and most seafood, vanilla soya milk; Indian, Thai restaurant food, children-burgers, pepsi max;  Salmon, scrambled eggs and garlic-fried spinach. Parma violet sweets, pickled onion space raiders, vanilla ice-cream. No seriously, ice cream!

And favourite books to take with you on a desert island:
The Gospel Of Filth

Baudelaire's Fleur Du Mal

Blood And Roses - Various vampire stories

Black Magic Stories - Dennis Wheatley

The Best Of Hustler

Through A Glass Darkly - Sheridan Le Fanu

The War Of The Worlds -H.G Wells

How To Get Off A Desert Island -Robinson Crusoe/Tom Hanks

The Bible - Various (will need something for a fire!)

Your religion: Luciferianimal

Where do you gain sexual pleasure from: My erogenous zones.
 

With which character out of literary and cinematic history could you identify with the most: Roderick Usher, The Daleks, Darth Vader, (Capt) Jack Sparrow, H.G Wells, Elizabeth Bathory, Lord Byron, Dracula, Charlie Bucket, Frankenstein's Monster and Me, yesterday.

If you had a time machine into which epoch would you travel: The Victorian era, the late Cretaceous period, the Ramses dynasty, future mutant vampire 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'.

My name.

 

And which albums do you take with you into eternity:

Jeff Wayne - The War Of The Worlds

Wojciech Kilar - Bram Stoker's Dracula

Emperor - In The Nightside Eclipse

Mercyful Fate - Don't Break The Oath

Destruction - Infernal Overkill

Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son

Rammstein - Mutter

AC/DC - Back In Black

Slayer - Reign In Blood

Suicidal Tendencies - How Will I laugh Tomorrow…

Berlioz - Symphonie Fantastique

Christopher Young - Hellraiser

Type O Negative - Extended Bloody Kisses

Danzig - IV

Bathory - The Return

Judas Priest - Painkiller

Bad Religion - Private compilation album, 2 days long

Message to the fans: Stay Filthy!