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Cradle Of Filth and Ed Sheeran collaboration update: “He’s done some of it”
By Andy Malt | Published on Wednesday 31 August 2022
Cradle Of Filth frontman Dani Filth has given an update on his band’s long-awaited collaboration with Ed Sheeran. Short version: It’s not finished, but it has at least now been started.
“We still have yet to finish our song with Ed Sheeran”, he tells the Knotfest YouTube channel. “He’s done some of it, but then he had a baby, and then he got obviously sidetracked with that and doing whatever Ed does, which is play massive shows around the globe. He’s not at our beck and call. But he is gonna finish it, he assures me. Actually, I spoke to him quite recently”.
As for what fans might say when the track finally sees the light of day, he adds: “They have to like it or lump it, really … We really appreciate the marriage of extremes. So, I’d rather do a track with someone like Ed Sheeran, than do a track with [someone more obvious]. The clash of interests, the marriage of extremes, that’s interesting in itself”.
Filth revealed last summer that he had been in contact with Sheeran, after the pop star said that he’d been a fan of Cradle Of Filth in his teens and “would not be opposed” to recording a bit of metal one day. Which he then did with Bring Me The Horizon, on a reworked version of his song ‘Bad Habits’.
That led some to assume that any Cradle Of Filth tie-up was dead in the water. Then in February this year Filth said that they were “looking at some options” for how to work together.
Sheeran is now on tour until March, and Cradle Of Filth are also preparing for tour dates, gearing up to release a live album, and writing a new studio album. So who knows when we’ll actually get to hear this collaboration. It had better be worth the wait.
