There are pretenders to the crown, there's the next best thing, there's valiant also-rans. Then there's Cradle Of Filth, the masters of the Black Metal genre. Black on the outside, blacker on the inside, the Filth have been plunging into the depths of gothic metal for more than a decade - and have produced 8 albums of the heaviest, most extreme metal known to man, woman or beast.

Ever-excellent vocalist Dani Filth has seen the Cradle Of Filth line-up change over the years, but the consistent quality has remained. Ahead of the game, ahead of the competition, they thrash out harder, faster, louder, darker music to blow away all boundaries and set new standards to make the competition cower in fear and awe under the unopposed rule of Cradle Of Filth. All hail the kings of Black Metal.