CRADLE OF FILTH - You Will Know The Lion By His Claw (OFFICIAL LYRIC VIDEO)

Official music video for “You Will Know The Lion By His Claw“ from the CRADLE OF FILTH album, “Cryptoriana - The Seductiveness of Decay“. Commented singer Dani Filth: “This track is one of my favourite songs from the new ’Cryptoriana’ album -aside from ‘Achingly Beautiful’, ‘Death And The Maiden’ and the title track- due to its very unique flavour and its vehement brutality. The culminative strike is especially very ’Dusk… and Her Embrace’ era Black Metal… Inspired by the works of H. Rider Haggard, a Victorian author who schooled in my home town of Ipswich, this song uses the railroad annexation of the Transvaal in Africa during the 19th century to paint a vision of the greedy machinations of man coming up against a furious, displaced natural foe, thus posing an allegory for the downtrodden, revolting. I also have the latin of this expression tattooed on my arm (due to being the usual supercilious Leo!).