Dani Filth continues to talk up Ed Sheeran and Cradle Of Filth collab: “My mum hasn’t even heard it”

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Cradle Of Filth‘s long-awaited collaboration with Ed Sheeran, saying that it is “done and dusted”.News of the extreme metal band’s unlikely team-up with Sheeran was first shared in 2021.

Filth revealed at the time that he had been in touch with the pop star, and that Sheeran had invited him “up to his place”.He also claimed that the ‘Shape Of You’ artist was a “massive fan” of Cradle Of Filth. “I think the Ed Sheeran collaboration would be great fun,” Filth said at the time. “I think it’d be great if we did it for charity because at least it would bring a bit of credibility to it.”Now, during an appearance on The Downbeat Podcast, Filth confirmed that the collab was “done and dusted” and said it had come out sounding “great”.“We did it like two years ago,” he explained (via Metal Sucks). “It was weird because we were planning to do it for about a year and a half.”Filth continued: “I think our managers got in touch with each other somehow.

His manager, Stuart [Camp], used to listen to Coal Chamber [the band featuring Cradle Of Filth manager Dez Fafara] when he was growing up.”As for why fans have had to wait so long to hear the finished single, he told the podcast: “We didn’t wanna release it back then because we were busy with other things.

Then [Sheeran] 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.”Filth went on to talk about what the high-profile team-up sounds like, saying: “It’s a brand new Cradle Of Filth song featuring Ed Sheeran, and a lot of it sounds like Ed Sheeran.