Artist: CRUACHAN
Album: THE LIVING AND THE DEAD (DIGI)

Release date: 31.03.2023
EAN/UPS: 7350049518657
Media type: CD

The Irish folk-metal pioneers Cruachan are ready to release the album 'The Living and The Dead'.

Ireland’s Cruachan have enjoyed a storied career since they took those tentative first steps back in 1992. As frontman and sole original member Keith Fay elaborates; ‘When I started writing music as a 13-year-old, I had no idea that I was laying the foundations for what would become a brand-new genre, Folk Metal, or that I was planting the seeds of what would be one of the longest running Irish metal bands in history. There have been many ups and downs over the last thirty years, band members have come and gone, record deals have come and gone. We've played some of the biggest metal festivals on the planet, travelled to more countries than most Irish bands would ever dream possible. And it has all led to this - our ninth album, 'The Living and the Dead'.

Quote from Keith Fay: ‘This album had to be good. No, it had to be better than good. This had to be the best Cruachan album ever made. I faced a decision in 2020, in the middle of the pandemic, when three band members left the band. ‘Do I call it a day? or do I press on with the mammoth task of replacing everyone’. There was no real decision to be made, I worked way too hard over the years to allow Cruachan to fizzle out. I had been writing some of the best music of my career in recent years. I secured a record deal with a label (Sweden’s Despotz Records) that understood exactly what Cruachan and my vision is’.

TRACKLIST CD:

1. The Living
2. The Queen
3. The Hawthorn
4. The Harvest
5. The Festival
6. The Ghost
7. The Crow
8. The Reaper
9. The Children
10. The Changeling
11. The Witch
12. The Dead

A1. The Living
A2. The Queen
A3. The Hawthorn

B1. The Harvest
B2. The Festival
B3. The Ghost

C1. The Crow
C2. The Reaper
C3. The Children

D1. The Changeling
D2. The Witch
D3. The Dead