CRADLE OF FILTH - You Will Know The Lion By His Claw (OFFICIAL LYRIC VIDEO)

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Commented singer Dani Filth: "This track is one of my favorite songs from the new Cryptoriana album -aside from ‘Achingly Beautiful’, ‘Death And The Maiden’ and the title track- due to its very unique flavor and its vehement brutality. The culminative strike is especially very Dusk… and Her Embrace era Black Metal…

"Inspired by the works of H. Rider Haggard, a Victorian author who schooled in my home town of Ipswich, this song uses the railroad annexation of the Transvaal in Africa during the 19th century to paint a vision of the greedy machinations of man coming up against a furious, displaced natural foe, thus posing an allegory for the downtrodden, revolting.

"I also have the latin of this expression tattooed on my arm (due to being the usual supercilious Leo!).
The quote was made famous having been said in 1697 by Johann Bernoulli about Isaac Newton's anonymously submitted solution to Bernoulli's challenge regarding the Brachistochrone curve.
So… Enjoy. Indulge. Desire. Darken."

[KhorneDeth]

That ending.... brought me back to being a kid again listening to Cradle of Filth for the first time. I have tears in my eyes, that was amazing

[pikhik]

6:20 Dani's vocals are killer here

[MrPrinceofallsaiyan]

He came in with brutal force! Now people should stop bitching about his voice.Great stuff

[willyx]

I simply love the literature in Cradle of Filths titles and lyrics <3

[jimtguitarist]

How the fuck Dani remembers all these lyrics during live performances? I saw them performing this masterpiece and both two guitarists and the bassist were symmetrically headbanged...it truly was a spectacular show!

[unquietvoid]

Sweet Lucifer the end of this song rips so hard it brought tears to my eyes. I'll forever scream along to the end verse until the day I die

[canalmundomotor]

This band is Edgar Allan Poe of metal.

[SalmonBoa]

Metal head Critics are gonna have a hard time trying to tell us why they dont like this

[Charles-jjsu]

Dani during the last minute or two... he hasn't sounded that good in over a decade.

[SalmonBoa]

@6:20 that violent relentless emotion spewing out of Dani's mouth is so raw and fierce. Reminds me of Midian "tearing the veal from grace" right around the climax of that track towards the end. COF's true colors at work! /, , / /, , /

[andreteixeira]

COF is in amazing shape! Just bought tickets to see them in Tokyo 😘😘😘

[ivavoy]

The hole song is epic, BUT THE that is another level of musical climax!

[ghostmenblk]

6:20 Danis vocals are the same pitch & tone as his song Haunted Shores from Dusk and her embrace from 1996 incredible 😳

[Downsider]

Dani became his younger self, straight out of Midian with those last few moments on this track. That was fucking brilliant. This new Cradle is the best in so fucking long.

Possibly even back to 'Cruelty', Dani has never sounded so raw in the last decade.

[bestfriendbingbong]

This Cradle album is most excellent. Now the equivalent of a super band with the current line up. I hope it stays together for the rest of their existence.. I cannot express enough just how great Martin Skaroupka is.

[the_old_ghost]

glad how they are back to those 7 minute opus songs and the opening riff had me hooked

[putridsunrise]

I'm glad you guys are doing these more elaborate lyric videos that are themed to the song rather than the standard text to screen type. This makes it feel more like a proper music video without actually being one.

[wickedemperor]

This is masterpiece worthy material. When I noticed it was almost 7 1/2 minutes long I was sceptical, but I was hooked till the very end. Couldn't stop listening and watching.

[nightmarishcompositions]

The vocals starting around 6:20 are awesome! I would love to hear a whole song done in that style.

[metrulz]

Frantic, exciting, brutal, beautiful. Classic.
What an absolutely feverish pace near the end and my god that growl. Cradle is about to release a masterpiece. This is going to be fucking great.