Congratulations are in order for Cradle Of Filth guitarist Marek “Ashok” Šmerda and keyboardist/vocalist Zoë M. Federoff, who recently got engaged. The happy couple met when Federoff joined the band in 2022.
Federoff commented:
“Happy New Year from a Šmerda and a future Šmerda-2024 will be the last year the name ‘Zoë Federoff’ exists. Forever isn’t long enough.”
She later added:
“First of all, thank you all so much for your warm wishes and congratulations.
Secondly, I truly wish I didn’t feel the need to completely clear this up but there’s a lot of strange rumors and stories floating around so, take note:
I never knew Ashok before I joined CoF. He had nothing to do with me coming on board.
I have already written some material for the next CoF album so clearly our engagement has nothing to do with my continued stay in this band.
We have no plans to leave CoF as we truly enjoy working together, not to mention working with several of our closest friends. Dani has been the greatest and most supportive leader possible when it comes to our engagement.
We remain happily committed to his team in CoF.
Now please- stop speculating and spreading rumors and let’s celebrate all the good things happening this year!”
Metal Anarchy 
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