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Niall Doherty

"Some guy jumped onstage with a carving knife": Cradle Of Filth's Dani Filth on the time Scandinavian Satanists came for him

Portrait of Cradle Of Filth vocalist Dani Filth, London, United Kingdom, 2000

You can’t imagine that there is much that would spook Dani Filth. The frontman of East Anglia extreme metallers Cradle Of Filth is used to being the one to bring the scares, but in the band’s early days they were some alarming encounters, including rumours that the group were getting death threats from Satanists in Scandinavia.

“There were a few incidents,” Dani Filth told Metal Hammer’s David MacNamee back in 2007. “Some guy jumped onstage when we were touring with At The Gates and Anathema in Germany, with a fucking great carving knife and the bouncers jumped on him. The fortunate thing was that we were in England and obviously there’s a substantial tract of water which separates us." 

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