CRADLE OF FILTH played 1st show without "Ashok" Šmerda in Uruguay, Donny Burbage on guitar
14CRADLE OF FILTH played 1st show without "Ashok" Šmerda in Uruguay, Donny Burbage on guitar
after the line up rearranging CRADLE OF FILTH played their first show after the departure of guitarist Marek "Ashok" Šmerda on August 26th, hours after said he was planning to leave the band at the end of the band's ongoing Latin American tour. Fan filmed video of the show at Montevideo Music Box in Montevideo, Uruguay is now on youtube below... . CRADLE OF FILTH's concert in Uruguay had Dani joined by Martin "Marthus" Škaroupka on drums, Daniel Firth on bass, Donny Burbage on guitar and Kelsey Peters on keyboards and backing vocals.
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Šmerda, who had played with the band for more than a decade, was fired by CRADLE OF FILTH frontman Dani Filth after the guitarist shared a post on social media in which he stated his time in the group as "a lot of work for relatively low pay, the stress is quite high, and we haven't felt for a while like this band actually prioritizing/caring about members". He also said that he asked to have his contributions "removed" from all of CRADLE OF FILTH's "upcoming releases", including the band's delayed collaborative song Ed Sheeran, explaining that it "this song feels like foolish clown antics for me at this point anyways — 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."
CRADLE OF FILTH played 1st show without "Ashok" Šmerda in Uruguay, Donny Burbage on guitar