Stuart Anstis is a former guitarist and songwriter for the British metal band Cradle of Filth

Cradle of Filth

Cradle of Filth are an English extreme metal band, formed in Suffolk in 1991. The band's musical style evolved from black metal to a cleaner and more "produced" amalgam of gothic metal, symphonic black metal, and other extreme metal styles, while their lyrical themes and imagery are heavily...

. He was in the band from 1994 until 1999, appearing on four releases, as well as in the video for From the Cradle to Enslave

From the Cradle to Enslave

From the Cradle to Enslave is an EP by Cradle of Filth. It contains two original tracks; the title track and "Of Dark Blood and Fucking". The rest of the disc consists of two cover versions and a re-recording of a track from the album Dusk... and Her Embrace...

. Following his firing from the band (after which bandmate Les Smith

Les Smith

Les 'Lecter' Smith is an English keyboard player. He originally did session work on keyboards for the British band Anathema on their 1996 album Eternity before joining extreme metal band Cradle of Filth. During his time in Cradle of Filth , his stage persona consisted of wearing a custom Vicar...

 left in protest), he began a new band called Bastardsun which disbanded in 2005 following the death of legendary frontman David Wayne (Metal Church

Metal Church

Metal Church was an American heavy metal band. They originally formed in Seattle, Washington as Shrapnel in 1980. Their first album was released in 1984, and the band's most recent work, This Present Wasteland, was released in 2008....

, Wayne

Wayne (band)

Wayne was a band formed around lead singer David Wayne, formerly of Metal Church and Reverend. Wayne released their only album, "Metal Church", on August 7, 2001...

, Reverend) in a car accident. In 2001, he released Aphelion I-VI, an electronic project which met with critical acclaim and produced, mixed and mastered albums based out of Soundcage Studio UK (most notably for Irish metal band Scavenger

Scavenger

Scavenging is both a carnivorous and herbivorous feeding behavior in which individual scavengers search out dead animal and dead plant biomass on which to feed. The eating of carrion from the same species is referred to as cannibalism. Scavengers play an important role in the ecosystem by...

). Stuart went to school in the small port town of Bideford

Bideford

Bideford is a small port town on the estuary of the River Torridge in north Devon, south-west England. It is also the main town of the Torridge local government district.-History:...

 and he now lives there with his wife Antoinette. He also runs a guitar shop in the town (Bideford Bay Guitars) and is a much sought after guitar teacher.

with Cradle of Filth

• Vempire (1996)
• Dusk and Her Embrace
  Dusk and Her Embrace
  Dusk... and Her Embrace is Cradle of Filth's second full-length album, and their first for the label Music for Nations. The overall production on this album is similar to their other 1996 release V Empire, being more refined than on The Principle of Evil Made Flesh and the symphonic elements are...
  
  (1996)
• Cruelty and the Beast
  Cruelty and the Beast
  Cruelty and the Beast is the third studio album by English extreme metal band Cradle of Filth. It is a concept album based on the legend of the Hungarian "blood countess" Elizabeth Báthory...
  
  (1998)
• From the Cradle to Enslave
  From the Cradle to Enslave
  From the Cradle to Enslave is an EP by Cradle of Filth. It contains two original tracks; the title track and "Of Dark Blood and Fucking". The rest of the disc consists of two cover versions and a re-recording of a track from the album Dusk... and Her Embrace...
  
  (1999)