Cradle of Filth - Her Ghost In The Fog (Pianist continues his exploration of heavy metal)

[@Quilbo]

This is the fucking Bohemian Rhapsody of this kind of metal.

[@IIChristisKingII]

Dani Filths lyrics are some of the greatest in the world. Shout out to Sarah Jezebel Deva, the female vocalist.

[@digitalmouse3314]

I still listen to her stuff to this day.

[@robertpetre9378]

I remember meeting Sarah Jezebel Deva in 2010 when she released her first solo album she was quite insistent that I didn’t downloaded and that I bought a physical copy

[@xxswamplordxx2079]

She's back doing stuff with the band Kovenant. Super psyched for the new album from them, with her.

[@Shamou04]

I always wonder how he is able to remember all of his lyrics. I mean, there are only a few which are repeated during a song and he never misses a word on live shows. A beast of memory !

[@michaelk6957]

​@@Shamou04Its poetry man. He is obsessed with righting those lyrics. Thats why he put lyrics all over the song. Fortunately he doesnt sing on top of the guitar solos yet... Lol

[@kaoticwildchild]

What i like about judson is that he’s not a crowd pleaser, he states his opinion as it is unlike other reaction channels, where they act all surprised and in awe whatever the music is.

[@vavra222]

Agreed, i really do like "outside" educated and mainly honest opinions on the music i listen to.

[@moribundcrux]

I loved Richard smiling and Judson wincing at every high pitch squeal Dani does. It's literally the main reason why I watched this video.

[@Greatmeasures]

I think that’s the main reason Richard likes doing this video as well!

[@Ilfrinco]

her ghost in the FOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOG

[@pandabearguy1]

That part goes hard

[@Hitical_Crit]

Pterodactyl intensifies

[@jaiksonf.8295]

The first one is also crazy 8:07

[@CroMagJohnson]

about richard's shirt: probably about 20 years ago, i worked with a girl who was telling me that her cousin was a drummer in a metal band from california. i asked her who the band was and she said, "i think they're called cow murder or something like that."

[@johns14m]

So geeked! This was my patreon request

[@D3Fanatic]

Awwww there it is, my highschool years are coming back lol

[@cantstopthebeat17]

“Sure they are” -Judson 😂 I can’t get enough of his continued metal education (and the reactions). The synchronized deep breath at 17 minutes was golden

[@Benobot99]

Next show him Dimmu Borgir - Mourning Palace (studio version) 🤘

[@alexkenley1]

yep

[@tonyr9389]

Nah. Live at Wacken 2012 full symphony.

[@Benobot99]

40 thumbs-up. Let's see it, please.

[@AlexanderSamarth]

Lol go on, give him Tearing the Veil from Grace!

[@ДмитрийДавидюк-ш7т]

with lyrics

[@damienkurast]

17:09 lets get some Cannibal Corpse! Scourge of Iron, Evisceration plague, Code of the slashers :D

[@egilskronbergs9846]

Next up: Emperor - Thus Spake the Nightspirit! Pleeease!

[@Superbiist]

I do remember the time CoF was blamed as Bacstreet boys or what ever. It was named by these "original" black metal fans, who could not tolerate this great production quality and exceptional makeups and clothes. Same was with Dimmu Borgir, until Enthrone Darkness Triuphant album, when they really started to sell records. And making money ofc. Same was with CoF with album Dusk and Her embrace. Epic album. And the conserts were something else ffs. Was on Dusk... tour on Tavastia Helsinki and it was packed. One of the best gigs I´ve been or seen. For this kind of metal, there is another band that never got as big, Hecate Enthroned, but very similiar music. Screeching vocals and very, very cool riffs and "piano" sets. Go check them out too.

[@LaughingSkull451]

Hecate Enthroned were so fucking good! My god!

[@BombstractGnome]

I was like “ oh this will be interesting” 😂😂

[@l.A.0]

have him react to BATHORY ARIA if u wanna show him real COF

[@journeymenforlife]

Yes boys! Was wondering when you'd get around to Cradle, always been a guilty pleasure. Greetings from the kingdom 💚🤙

[@TheNeonParadox]

I'm so happy you used the album version instead of the video version. The video skips the entire interlude, and that's my favorite part of the song.

[@archerdoubleO]

"It's Heavy Funk"

[@bumblefluff79]

Shouting back from the kingdom! And God bless little Dani Filth. Hoping to see CoF in October, I'm not what you'd call a fan, but it should be a lot of fun.

[@alcofgod4211]

One of the best metal bands in the world 🤘

[@DeirdreMoran-s3x]

Love how they got pinhead from hellraiser to do the spoken word

[@Waltari81]

The CoF hate from the black metal community has always been there. When the band started out they were marketed as "Black Metal", but in reality they blended some black metal elements together with the about to be popular "Gothic"-Genre and slapped a nice horror theme on everything. According to Dani he´s always been a big horror fan and was even starring in a horror movie in the early 2000s. The band found a niche for themselves that was commercially successful and commercial success at the time was everything the idea of black metal stood against. Similar to the band Dimmu Borgir they acted as gateways to the more extreme genres for fans that just started enjoying that sort of music.

[@andrewkemp2238]

I've always referred to them as Gothic Metal, it's all opinion at the end of the day and some people are very keen on 'their' genre

[@Pohvizd]

Some czech reviewer in a metal magazine, named cof as dusk metal and Dani agreed with that.

[@michaelwinters2574]

Been into BM since 94/95, and even then, they got hate. It was the goths who listened and wore their shirts that seemed to drive it at that time, in my area.

[@brennuvargr4638]

@@andrewkemp2238 I never saw them as gothic metal, really. That stuff I associate more with, like, Lacuna Coil, For/My/Pain, Entwined, etc. Slower, singing vocals, more typical song structures, etc. Cradle of Filth have always been more on the extreme metal side of things, flirting with different extreme genres and melding them together.

[@aaira0698]

Saffron's Curse from the same album got me into CoF

[@Loendt]

Fantastic Symphonic Black/Gothic Metal band. One of the most popular Gothic Metal bands, my introduction to Black Metal with Dimmu Borgir and then others bands came like Immortal, Satyricon, Dissection, Bathory, etc. I discovered this band in the early 2000's when I was in high school! Great memories!

[@Yellow-IV]

Hello sir, i like thing song a lot, is the name of the genre of similar songs black metal? I like this kind of metal music with a woman yodelig and a guy screeching like a banshee

[@Loendt]

@@Yellow-IV Cradle of Filth is a band between two worlds, Symphonic Black Metal and Gothic Metal. I recommend you bands like Chthonic, Carach Angren, Dimmu Borgir, Abyssos, Anorexia Nervosa, Hecate Enthroned or Siebenbürgen.

[@guidoretro]

Dusk and her embrace the song, you have to show him that one

[@TaraRyze]

I love that they’re friends with Doug Bradley and had him do the speaking part in the beginning! He’s on a couple of their other songs as well on different albums, always thought it was very fitting! Saw COF ages ago at a great venue in Tampa called The Masquerade, which is no longer around. We saw Dani walking back to the bus with a big Patrick Star plushie he had gotten for his daughter, he was kind enough to put the plushie on the bus and come back out just to take photos with us! Really nice guy!

[@PactWithLucifer]

Great memories with this album...was playing Diablo II while this plays in the background back in the day. Try something from their earlier albums - satisfaction guaranteed.

[@tomsteward2575]

Greetings from Guam! Keep exploring!! 🤘🤘

[@lawrencefine5020]

Big CoF fan. Good choice, Richard. Evil, Romantic, Sickening, and Humorous. All Hail Dani Filth!. How bout some Cryptopsy, Richard? All guttural.

[@mattmacphee1]

I also remember the first time I saw this video on Much Music one night! As soon as I hear the first few notes it's an immediate transportation back, blew my mind back then so much it's stamped in my memory. Same with the Emperor video with the weird boxed editing.

[@erissera8629]

Ah ah loved it! Especially the Floor imitation 😂 You should give Epica a try. Beautiful singer, great voice and a friend of Floor!

[@tiffy3260]

At 21:23 Come on here 🫴 ~okayyy what do you want me to singgg?~

[@sabbathguy1]

Classic track, it's a crowd pleaser for sure with some great story-telling (as you'd expect from CoF) and great delivery.

[@andrewkemp2238]

Liked before even watching this one!

[@kenkelley1223]

Principle of evil made Flesh was the first album I bought from them. Awesome vlog y'all..This is the best reaction Duo ever i cant stop laughing Y'all...Great Measures...

We need Limbonic Art - Moon in Scorpio reaction :)

[@thomaspedersen2092]

Hey Love this channel with splendid actions/reactions between a true metalhead and an open minded pianist. I am a LP-collector and in my archive I find several LPs where I only have the first LP. It means that after buying and listened I choiced to buy from other bands ...... Actually I dont have much symphonic metal. I dont think its the best way to go if you like example Bathory, 1Burzum or Darkthrone ...... Therefore I only have the 1. album with Cradle of Filth played once .... . Many of my LPs back in time (all 1. edition) which I name as wrong purchases they have really got some high prices. I really praise that we have different taste in music :) !! Extra note I bought the first 2 albums with "Rotting Christ". The last year I have checked "the so called one or few albums in my collection". When checking some news from this band I surrendered me to especially their excellent album "Rituals" from 2016 packed with great emotions, thunder and fire. If I have not seen this video I have not reheard CoF again. Still I dont like their music as well as Dimmu borgir .....

[@jakkdaniels6840]

Hey, thanks. Great song.

[@businesscatt]

just got into cradle of filth great timing😁😁😁😁😁

[@bb-wb8sb]

i appreciate the honesty in these videos. a recommendation: "tearing the veil from grace" by cradle of filth. good by itself, but especially if yall are up for reading lyrics while doing this.

[@alexgram1276]

90's CoF is the best, maybe Dusk and Her Embrace for next reaction with the band.. Iron Maiden influences all over it

[@andersonrs1990]

The singer in the end is actually Sarah Jezebel Deva. Awesome video!

[@archerdoubleO]

5:12 Judson thinking he's joking but he's just unironically right.

[@Moonchilddbk]

Vielen Dank dafür... Einen schönen Tag und liebe grüße

[@alanbeesby2220]

Pianist and Uke player! ❤

[@OmarServin]

One of my favorite songs, just read the lyrics

[@LeadGRuaidri]

Jud's turd! in the BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOGGGGGGGGGG! This is gonna be a banger

[@robertpetre9378]

Thank you for reacting to my favourite song by Cradle of Filth.

[@Seregor_6]

“Arch Angel, Dark Angel lend me thy light! Through death’s veil til we have heaven in sight!”

[@smftv]

The one thing I'll always remember about "Cattle Decapitation" is when they opened for Gwar about 20 years ago (holy crap, I'm old...) and their fliers were all misspelled. It read: "Cattle Decipatation" 🤣 I thought it was hysterical, lol. idk... maybe you need to be a writer to find it funny. It was my 3rd time seeing Gwar though (front and center) and they weer amazing as usual). (I know, it was intentional). 😄 I hope you guys get to "Cruelty Brought Thee Orchids'. My all time favorite Cradle song (and it's hard to pick a favorite off that album). They have a remastered version of this album. 👍

[@MartinMaxFerdinand]

Satyricon - Phoenix (feat. Sivert Høyem) - Live Performance - will get Judson hooked on Black Metal - with clean singing and a choir :)

[@robertcr]

17:09 Let's give him Gutturals Vital Remains Black Magic Curse Hammer down the Nails or Icons of Evil 🤟🤣

[@gene7442]

COF have a great romantic theatrical style. Another Anglish band 'Hell' have a theatre/thrash style, the song 'Blasphemy and The Master" from their 2011 debut album "Human Remains"..give it a spin on your pentacle.

[@ophanim7779]

Muy entretenido sus videos reacciónes saludos desde argentina

[@dentedilupo81]

Ohh Ohh Ohh Ohhh....

[@DericAnslum]

...FINALLY...!!!...

[@BehappyBhairava]

Watain - waters of ain!

[@alanbeesby2220]

I’d love to see Judson react to The Dreadful Hours by My Dying Bride 🤘😜😎

[@Lightmarez90]

The funny thing is that the first guy who sing is the actor who play Hellraiser

[@triumphtinltcomicdg]

15:26 I have the same feeling about opera singing lol...and also, no one sings like that normally ;)

[@franconorambuena7469]

React to ozric tentacles spirals on hyperspace .....space rock Psychodelic....is a trip

[@matthewwalenski]

If you need to hear more guttural vocals, try Demilich - Nespithe. I'd be curious to hear Judson's take on that....

[@DanGmz]

If you want something symphonic and chaotic you should listen to Fleshgod Apocalypse, the song The Violation, you guys will love it 😆👍

[@Clueless_Morgan]

Try Aquilus black metal and neo classical… let him listen to the track Into Wooded Hollows. Would love to hear his take/reaction to that.

[@tropiq]

im not really into CoF, i did try out their albums at some point but the only tracks that really stuck were From the Cradle to Enslave and this one, narration by Doug Bradley ( actor played pinhead in hellraiser ) and a music video that had some mtv airtime made this a pretty big hit back in the day as far as black metal goes also if Judson is so eager for more gutturals next up the frogman from Demilich :D

[@allmightytrinity3879]

She was with cradle from 1994 from when they made their first album to 2006 when pornography came out that also came out on Halloween

[@GEasylistening]

Best reaction moments 10:11 11:53 :D

[@tenebraefero168]

Very interesting to see your reacton to maudlin of the Well - Heaven and Weak, for example

[@lopa-u9f]

hey, I recommended this! also do: Children of Bodom - Angels Don't Kill

[@lopa-u9f]

Midian Clive Barker - one of the greatest writers, horror fantasy mostly, but, it's deep great literature Cabal Midian is in Cabal he made the movie NightBreed out of it - watch the director's cut, but, read the book ( :

[@lopa-u9f]

Therion is a great band, they are largely operatic metal, and come from a black metal base operatic symphonic if you want to use those terms to start: Asgard then go with like: To Mega Therion Ginnungagap their best song is: Via Nocturna but they have multiple masterpiece albums (Vovin, Deggial, Secret of the Runes, for starters)

[@lopa-u9f]

then there's Neuromist: Stabwound Rings of Saturn: Parallel Shift

[@lopa-u9f]

also not huge on CoF, but there are a bunch of good ones: Queen of Winter, Throned All Hope in Eclipse Dusk and Her Embrace Nemesis The Forest Whispers My Name

[@pieflies]

Nice cover for the intro.

[@internalfire11]

Most crazy chaotic stuff!? Give him some Ulcerate or Deathspell omega:)

[@marcotaf6744]

Lol let's recommend the whole Paracletus from Deathspell

[@internalfire11]

@@marcotaf6744 that would be a bit to much haha. Abscission is always a good introduction to their music though...

[@Tactical_Tourist]

Dimmu Borgir was another band that the BM community hated too. I remember that my buddy got his hands on a copy of Ulver's Vargnatt demo and on the inside of the cover was a photo titled "Dimmu Burger". It involved an overweight guy, bad superimposed face of Shagrath, and pee. I was 15 at the time and that image is burned into my memory. The demo was '93 so that hate was before the Dimmu even released their first album, LoL.

[@antiqueguy6397]

Never been a fan of COF but haven't heard much of them either. I do like the song Guiled C**t! I used to have most of their shirts. Yes all the offensive ones but sold them for good money. Guess I'm a poser but their shirts and posters were great!

[@anvaysharma8524]

Damage inc , one and hero of the day next

[@derekk8523]

The narrater in beginning was pinhead from hell raiser

[@Knokkelman]

So, talking about clean singing, being musically all over the place and having some punk parts, did you guys do anythjing Anaal Nathrakh already?

[@tomaszpudz259]

We need some Naglfar - 12th Rising, Black God Aftermath, Of Gorgons Spawned Through Witchcraft

[@pathofchaos786]

Hudson may like heaven torn asunder. Or possibly 13 autums and a widow.

[@pathofchaos786]

Judson.

[@pawelszwed1760]

Haggard from germany please 🤟🤟🤟

[@_Helm_]

not to defend CoF, I'm not a fan but similarly to how nobody sings operatically naturally, you have to train your voice to do that, nobody does brutal vocals naturally, but they are a mode of performance that one inhabits in a theatrical or other sense to storytell. I understand the point about it being seemingly at odds to do a beastly voice and then orate like 20 Shakespearian stanzas over blastbeats (not a fan of this band) but essentially this is the beauty-and-the-beast, romantic, very gothic point of this band, right? How can a monster be so articulate? How can something ugly be beautiful? How can something searing be also melodic? They're like a vampiric kind of sexy-black metal thing, after all, right? And to the extent that this band was successful it was because they have a balance about that extremity and more accessible aspect to them that metal listeners resonated with in the 90s and 00s. A lot of crossover appeal to women audiences much like a lot of gothic metal of the era also accomplished (paradise lost, my dying bride, theatre of tragedy, the gathering, all use bands in European territories). So something about this screechy guy going on about her ghost in the fog was really appealing to a whole developing audience for this nuance between extremity and accessibility. As a side note, perhaps you should show and share the record cover before you play the record so Judson has as least as much of a chance as a listener that bought those albums back in the day to get the band's aesthetic and perspective, isn't that part of the experience?

[@alexkenley1]

yep were sllowly loosening him up and turning him metal 😂

[@Sir_Robocop_jr]

I couldnt imagine his reaction to a band like methwitch or the sawtooth grin.

[@jakkdaniels6840]

Regarding the hate. Who TF cares? Like what you like. There are plenty of choices. Move on if you dont like it.

[@diegoborgir24]

Imagine that you found Cradle of Filth as horror music, what it will be like when you listen to Carach Angren.

[@johannes7263]

Next show him Wintersun - Sons Of Winter And Stars (studio version)

[@kurtdizon5680Cadie]

You just opened the Pandora's Box

[@bradleyhendry8125]

Should have played official video for reference

[@stashthevampede]

How about some syl? Hmm?

[@mmontana73]

По глазам этого чувака видно, что они ничего подобного не придумает. Никогда.

[@idvarhurd]

tbh I'd rather choose Chulhu Dawn or Saffron's Curse from Midian album. For me those two songs carry much larger emotional load. The power is boiling off and trying to wash me away. Maybe it's because I used to listen to them at maximum volume, yet I believe they are also musically more interesting and not as chaotic in composition as Her Ghost. I'm curious to see your opinion on some Enslaved or Arcturus songs.

[@idlebiem7528]

do dance of eternity by dream theater

[@C0maT0ast]

Sarah Jezebel Deva is the woman whose voice you can hear.

[@alexandremaireno-ni4ec]

Since you brought it up, now you've gotta show him "Nymphetamine"

[@allenfackler]

I thought the intro was Rain Song, by Zeppelin, lol

[@Tactical_Tourist]

Give Judson some Gutalax from the Czech Republic. The vocals are a comical level of gutteral.

[@shred69]

Oh absolutely 🤣

[@TheSason666]

Is that in English?!

[@Tactical_Tourist]

@@TheSason666 Gutalax? Some songs are. Doesn't really matter because you can't tell what the vocalist is saying 99% of the time. LoL

[@HawkGTboy]

Or how about Demilich?

[@nadimmahmud277]

What was the song he played on the intro? sounded pretty cool 😅

[@Greatmeasures]

“Something” The Beatles

[@nadimmahmud277]

thanks bro ❤ keep up the good works ❤​@@Greatmeasures

[@tristanblack6609]

Really should have done the video for this one! I think he would have had a better reaction to the video

[@shred69]

Judson is 100% right about the too much wash of guttural vocals. And I LOVE death metal.

[@clementgeoffroy5747]

Midian is intensely mixed, can get very 'foggy' (pun intended) sometimes. There are more consistant songs as well as clearer albums, even older ones which mixing aren't the greatest.

[@666Ekinox]

I agree, in extreme metal some singers won't shut the fuck up in great musical part. They want and take all the place.