One of the best parts about talking to Dani Filth is how direct he is. He doesn’t go off on tangents or give you sprawling answers full of guarded language. He’s working, you’re working, there’s a show to put on. That doesn’t mean he’s rude or brusque (or unconcerned with underground metal -- he still takes a moment to call out Craft, Zeal & Ardor, and Then Come Silence as bands he loves), only that he knows what he’s about, and like most performers who deal with a lot of moving parts at any given time, he’s probably asked himself your question long before you came up with them.
“Everything’s planned months in advance,” he says. “Since pretty much October, maybe earlier, this tour has been in production. The premise that we’re actually going to go somewhere prior to the tour and try out the new lights, meet the new crew, get the new songs fine-tuned, it just makes perfect sense. Normally we would do that sort of thing, but it just depends on how squashed in these tours are."
This American trek is all about acts with tight sounds and solid production value, with monster rockers Wednesday 13 and carnival horror metallers Raven Black filling out the bill. The roster of bands leads one to assume a lot of make-up tips and latex removal techniques will be shared backstage
“We have done in the past,” says Dani. “We toured with GWAR. So yeah, we just share some light prosthetic penis tips.”
Well, okay, so, next: any prosthetic mutant penis advice you want to give us.
“Yeah, don’t leave them under the bus, in the cold,” he laughs. “Because they get literally too hard, and have a tendency to snap.”