Paul Allender — born in England in 1970 — was Cradle of Filth's guitarist in two periods, and is the author of the riffs of the band's most successful phase. He was in the line-up that recorded The Principle of Evil Made Flesh (1994), the first album, left, and returned in 2000 for Midian — the record that opened the group's most visible decade. He stayed until the mid-2010s, recording Damnation and a Day (2003), Nymphetamine (2004), Thornography (2006), Godspeed on the Devil's Thunder (2008) and Darkly, Darkly, Venus Aversa (2010). His writing defines what Cradle of Filth sounds like: riffs of clear melodic line at fast tempo, with harmonies recalling traditional heavy metal rather than the dissonant tremolo of Norwegian black metal. It is that base which lets the repertoire carry orchestrations, choirs and Dani Filth's theatrical voice without sounding chaotic — and it is what brought the group an audience far beyond extreme metal. The Grammy nomination for Nymphetamine in 2005 is the landmark of that phase, and Allender is its musical co-author.
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