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Dani Filth of Cradle of Filth – Credit: Venla Shalin\/Redferns<\/p>\n
Two members of the long-running metal band Cradle of Filth have abruptly left the group amid their current tour, citing \u201cunprofessional behavior\u201d and a \u201cfoolish\u201d collaboration with Ed Sheeran.<\/p>\n
Singer and keyboardist Zo\u00eb M. Federoff first announced her exit from the band earlier this week for \u201cpersonal reasons\u201d; days later, Cradle of Filth revealed they were \u201cfiring\u201d guitarist and Federoff\u2019s husband Marek \u201cAshok\u201d \u0160merda, who had been a member of Cradle of Filth since 2014, while Federoff joined in 2022.<\/p>\n
More from Rolling Stone<\/strong><\/p>\n While fans initially speculated that a rift in Federoff and \u0160merda\u2019s marriage was to blame for their sudden departures, Federoff clarified on social media, \u201cAshok isn\u2019t cheating. While the turmoil of being in the band has taken its toll on us, we remain very much certain that we love each other. Please be kind to my husband. He is a good man. We were already planning to leave the band later this year. Certain events have sped that up for me.\u201d<\/p>\n Cradle of Filth frontman Dani Filth issued the band\u2019s statement regarding \u0160merda\u2019s firing \u201ceffective immediately\u201d after \u0160merda initially told fans he would leave the group after their current South American tour.<\/p>\n \u201cWe simply do not feel like Cradle\u00a0can provide for our future, and in fact hinders it. Among other reasons, it is a lot of work for relatively low pay, the stress is quite high, and we haven\u2019t felt for a while like this band actually prioritizing\/caring about members. It has been years of unprofessional behavior from people above us that led to our decision,\u201d \u0160merda wrote.<\/p>\n \u201cI have also asked all compositions of mine removed from upcoming releases including Ed Sheeran\u00a0collab. This song feels like foolish clown antics for me at this point anyways \u2014 first it was charity single for kids, then for profit single, then on next album, and now who knows and I just do not want to be involved anymore, no disrespect to Ed Sheeran.\u201d<\/p>\n (Rumors of the Sheeran\/Cradle of Filth collaboration first emerged in 2022 after the pop singer revealed, \u201cI was really into death metal as a kid. I listened to Cradle of Filth and Slipknot and all that stuff.\u201d Dani Filth said earlier this year that the band recorded a collaborative track, but it didn\u2019t feature on their new album, The Screaming of the Valkyries.)<\/p>\n The two members\u2019 departure coincided with the band\u2019s South American tour, which continued as scheduled on Tuesday in Montevideo, Uruguay. \u201cDespite all attempts to illegally defame and derail the band,\u00a0CRADLE OF FILTH\u00a0WILL NOT cancel any of our South American shows, though fans will have to bear with us being a band with only one guitarist live, that is of course until\u00a0Ashok\u2019s temporary replacement is flown out to join the tour in a few days time,\u201d Dani Filth said in his statement. A replacement for Federoff was already installed in Cradle of Filth\u2019s ever-changing lineup.<\/p>\n Best of Rolling Stone<\/strong><\/p>\n Sign up for RollingStone’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dani Filth of Cradle of Filth – Credit: Venla Shalin\/Redferns Two members of the long-running metal band Cradle…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[264],"tags":[19148,22069,976,18,117,19,17,337,22068,22070],"class_list":{"0":"post-27092","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-cradle-of-filth","9":"tag-dani-filth","10":"tag-ed-sheeran","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-music","16":"tag-unprofessional-behavior","17":"tag-zoe-m-federoff"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}