Dani Filth says Ed Sheeran "really pushes himself" on his collaboration with Cradle of Filth. The symphonic metal band's frontman revealed in 2021 that he and the pop megastar had exchanged emails about a surprising duet, and Dani has praised the 'Castle on the Hill' hitmaker for nailing his rock vocals. Speaking on Stray From The Path drummer Craig Reynolds' 'The Downbeat Podcast', Dani said of the track: "It's a brand-new Cradle of Filth song featuring Ed Sheeran, and a lot of it sounds like Ed Sheeran.
He's playing acoustic guitar, he's singing Ed Sheeran, but a lot of it sounds like us. There's a blast beat, scream. Ed really pushes himself in it as well.
He does rock vocals. It's about affirmation. It's a bit about self-affirmation.
It's a really good song. Only about a handful of people [have heard it]. My mum hasn't even heard it.
" The band decided not to include the song on their upcoming follow-up to their 2021 LP 'Existence Is Futile', but it will come out at some point. Dani explained: "We didn't wanna release it back then because we were busy with other things. Then he couldn't release it because he was doing a bunch of stuff.
So it's just gonna come out when it does. We didn't wanna put it on the album." Recounting how the collaboration came to be, he said: "I don't know.
I think our managers got in touch with each other somehow. His manager, Stuart [Camp], used to listen to Coal Chamber [Cradle of Filth manager Dez Fafara's band] when he was growing up. Ed [play.
