Dani Filth

• Name — Dani Filth • Birth Name — Daniel Lloyd Davey • Alias — * Dani Filth • Lord Filth • Daniel Filthy • Born — 25 July 1973 • Birthplace — Hertford, Hertfordshire, England • Genre — * Extreme metal • black metal • gothic metal • symphonic metal • Occupation — * Vocalist • songwriter • Years Active — 1989–present • Current Member Of — * Cradle of Filth • Devilment

Daniel Lloyd Davey was born to Susan Janet Moore and Laurence John Davey in Hertford and is the eldest child of four. He married Toni King on 31 October 2005 in Ipswich. The couple have a daughter. Separated since 2018, he was then engaged to Russian-born, Ipswich-based tattoo artist Sofiya Belousova, after proposing to her at the Download Festival 2025. Sofiya nevertheless announced in May 2026 over her Instagram account that the couple decided to part ways and are cancelling their planned marriage in a mutual decision.

Dani Filth's present and primary band is Cradle of Filth. He also has been lending his voice to the band Devilment, 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, the Bondage Boys, 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. He had been accused many times of being a Satanist, but has denounced such rumours, stating instead to being "more of a Luciferian." • Illustration — Davey in 2008 Away from Cradle, Filth appeared on the Roadrunner United CD in 2005 (contributing vocals to "Dawn of a Golden Age"), and recorded the song "(She's) 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 participated in the Temple of the Black Moon project in 2012 with guitarist Rob Caggiano, black metal musician King ov Hell on bass, and drummer John Tempesta. The supergroup aimed 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". Filth has also released two albums with Devilment since 2014. His high profile has led to a handful of film and television roles. 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...". In 2003, he provided the voice of the eponymous main character in the feature-length animation Dominator. Moreover, Filth has appeared numerous times on British television, most notably 1998's Living With the Enemy, Never Mind the Buzzcocks in 2001, Big Brother's Big Mouth in 2008. He has also appeared on the American series Viva La Bam in 2005, and was interviewed for two episodes of the Metal Evolution series, on shock rock and extreme metal in 2012 and 2014 respectively. In 2010, he was ranked 95 in the Hit Parader's Top 100 Metal Vocalists of All Time. Scottish death metal band Party Cannon dedicated Dani the song "I Believe in Dani Filth", released in December 2021 with an animated version of Dani in a Street Fighter-styled video.

• The Principle of Evil Made Flesh (1994) • Dusk... and Her Embrace (1996) • Cruelty and the Beast (1998) • Midian (2000) • Damnation and a Day (2003) • Nymphetamine (2004) • Thornography (2006) • Godspeed on the Devil's Thunder (2008) • Darkly, Darkly, Venus Aversa (2010) • The Manticore and Other Horrors (2012) • Hammer of the Witches (2015) • Cryptoriana – The Seductiveness of Decay (2017) • Existence Is Futile (2021) • The Screaming of the Valkyries (2025)

• The Great and Secret Show (2014) • Devilment II – The Mephisto Waltzes (2016)

• Christian Death – "Zodiac (He Is Still Out There...)" and "Peek a Boo" from the album Born Again Anti Christian (2000) • Obsidian – "Massada" from the On the Path of Others We Feed (EP) (2000) • Dr. Haze & the Circus of Horrors – "Judgment Day" from the album The Circus of Horrors (Welcome to the Freakshow) (2001) (also included on An Evil Anthology (2013)) • Roadrunner United – Lead vocals on "Dawn of a Golden Age" (2005) • Claudio Simonetti – "Mater Lacrimarum" from The Third Mother Soundtrack (2007) • Sarah Jezebel Deva – "This Is My Curse" from the Malediction EP (2012) • Motionless in White – "Puppets 3 (The Grand Finale)" from the album Reincarnate (2014) • The 69 Eyes – "Two Horns Up" and "The Last House On The Left" (also featuring Calico Cooper and Wednesday 13) from the album West End (2014) • Schoolcraft – "Fading Star" (2014) • Simone Simons – "The Creator and the Destroyer" from the rock opera Karmaflow (2015) • Eastern Front – "Crimson Mourn" from the album EmpirE (2016) • Tank – "Shellshock" from the album Re-Ignition (2019) • Bring Me the Horizon – "Wonderful Life" from the album Amo (2019) (#35 US Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks) • Twiztid – "Neon Vamp" from the album Unlikely Prescription (2021) • Kreator – "Betrayer" from the live album Live at Bloodstock 2021 (2022) • Tarja Turunen – "I Don't Care" from the album Frisson Noir (2026)

Dani Filth was recorded at birth as Daniel Lloyd Davey. He also worked under the name Dani Filth. The authorities additionally record the heading Dani Davey. His recorded language was English. His recorded confession was luciferianism.

Dani Filth is recorded as singer, rock musician and composer.