{"id":117683,"date":"2026-05-05T05:25:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T10:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=117683"},"modified":"2026-05-05T05:25:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T10:25:27","slug":"cradle-of-filth-announce-new-guitarist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=117683","title":{"rendered":"CRADLE OF FILTH &#8211; Announce New Guitarist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">British gothic metal band\u00a0<strong>CRADLE OF FILTH<\/strong>\u00a0have officially welcomed guitarist\u00a0<strong>Joff Bailey<\/strong>\u00a0into their lineup as a permanent replacement for\u00a0<strong>Marek \u201cAshok\u201d \u0160merda<\/strong>. The latter musician infamously parted ways with the group shortly after his wife\u00a0<strong>Zoe Marie Federoff<\/strong>\u00a0quit the band mid-tour last year. That couple engaged in a war of words with\u00a0<strong>Cradle Of Filth<\/strong>\u00a0frontman\u00a0<strong>Dani Filth<\/strong>\u00a0and the band\u2019s management, which ended in a lawsuit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British gothic metal band\u00a0CRADLE OF FILTH\u00a0have officially welcomed guitarist\u00a0Joff Bailey\u00a0into their lineup as a permanent&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117685,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117683\/revisions\/117685"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/117684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}