
Cruachan Interview
A week or two back I thought about interviewing Cruachan given their lineup changes and album coming up. So I reached out to Keith Fay and got more news than just the interview.
Continue reading →A week or two back I thought about interviewing Cruachan given their lineup changes and album coming up. So I reached out to Keith Fay and got more news than just the interview.
Continue reading →A track steeped in Irish folklore, Cruachan’s ‘The Hawthorn’ is set in Ireland during the 1700’s when the population were heavily under the influence of the Catholic church while still holding onto old Pagan beliefs. It balances the band’s love of Irish traditional folk music with uncompromising metal, a style of music the band helped develop back in the early 1990’s.
Frontman Keith Fay comments, “The Hawthorn tree is a fairy tree, you will see them all over Ireland growing in strange unlikely places where other trees would have been cut down. It is extremely unlucky to cut down a hawthorn tree else you anger the Faerie folk. In the song, the woman is taking her dead baby to bury under the tree, to give her baby to the faeries. We don’t know how the baby died or what has led to this decision but she is set in her ways and the baby will not have a Christian burial.”
Cruachan showed an unplugged version of their new song ‘The Hawthorn’ at facebook. This should have been released as a new single but with the craziness in the world the studio session never happened. This will be a ‘big’ song when recorded – a mix of ballad and metal with … Continue reading →
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By: JeffScore: 9,5/10Release: 5-12-2014Label: Trollzorn Records What can you say about Cruachan that hasn’t already been said? They have created the template for 20+ years for all other folk metal bands to follow and this latest album is no exception. While other bands still try to follow this template, no … Continue reading →
By: Colin and Nick Photography by: Toni B. Gunner – www.mondkringel-photography.de It has become some sort of tradition, the last weekend of June is, as every year, reserved for the best festival of the summer. Somewhere in a small town just passed Hamburg. As every year this small festival forms … Continue reading →