Pain remains

Bored Animal PSYCHONAUT

Cradle Of Filth’s corpsepainted frontman on his skate punk roots, exploding basketballs, and 11th-century ghosts

With 28 albums’ worth of songs to choose from, “hopefully there will be some surprises”.

Amid the mayhem of his European tour, Joe takes time out to give us a guided tour around his 2025 live gear, delivers the lowdown on some of his more storied guitars, and tells us why his mighty multi-amp rig has to run at breaking point in order to make the earth move and those riffs resonate…

It was a 24/7 existence. The phone did not stop ringing. It was like being on Concorde for six years, and I loved it. The speed at which they went from A-Z was incredible. They did the Marquee, then t

The human experience is hard. One of life’s pleasures for Eureka Machines is “having these little tunes, at gigs, that give people a couple of hours to get out of their heads”.