Daniel Lloyd Davey, known professionally as Dani Filth, is the lyricist, vocalist, and founding member of the metal band Cradle of Filth. He has a five-octave vocal range.
Personal life
Daniel Lloyd Davey was born to Susan Janet Moore and Lawrence John Davey in Hertford, UK and is the oldest child of four. He has two sisters, Amanda and Rachel, and a brother, Phillip. He married his wife Toni on 31 October 2005, in Ipswich. The two have a daughter, Luna Scarlett.
Career
Dani Filth's present and primary band is Cradle of Filth. He also has been lending his voice to the bandDevilment, a side project that has taken off into a full-time job in between Cradle records. His earliest bands were Carnival Fruitcake, The Lemon Grove Kids, PDA, Feast on Excrement, and Hash Gordon and the Drug Barons. He named Judas Priest, Venom, Emperor, Destruction, Slayer, Iron Maiden, Sabbat, Misfits, Paradise Lost and Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas among his major influences. At the age of eighteen, Filth took up a job at a Chinese restaurant. He later chose his career in music over an internship at a newspaper, although his "Dani's Inferno" column ran for two years in Metal Hammer during the late 1990s. He has co-written and released The Gospel of Filth with Gavin Baddeley. The book, which Filth describes as an "occult study," features contributions from Clive Barker, Christopher Lee and Ingrid Pierson. He had been accused many times of being a Satanist, but has denounced such rumours, claiming instead to being "more of a Luciferian." Away from Cradle, Filth appeared on the Roadrunner United CD in 2005, and his high-profile has also led to a handful of film and television roles. In 2003, he provided the voice of the eponymous main character in the feature-length animation Dominator. He was ranked 95 in the Hit Parader's Top 100 Metal Vocalist of All Time. Filth recorded the song " The Mother of Tears" with Claudio Simonetti and Simonetti's band Daemonia, for the soundtrack of Dario Argento's film The Mother of Tears. Filth has also recently assembled another band, Temple of the Black Moon, that aims to combine rawer, extreme metal with the softer more melodious sounds of progressive rock, describing the band's sound as a "cross between Celtic Frost and Tool". The group's ranks is rounded out by guitarist Rob Caggiano, also currently in Volbeat, black metal legend King ov Hell on bass as well as drummer John Tempesta.
''Cradle of Fear''
In 2000, Filth appeared in the movie Cradle of Fear as The Man, a deranged psychopath taking revenge on his father's persecutors. Cradle of Fear unfolds four stories all linked by the thread of an incarcerated child killer wreaking vengeance on those responsible for his imprisonment. The movie's tagline on some posters was, "It's not if they die... It's how...".
