THE LIVING AND THE DEAD (LTD DOUBLE GOLD VINYL)

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 Vinyl: A-Side: 1. The Living 2. The Queen 3. The Hawthorn B-side: 4. The Harvest 5. The festival 6. The Ghost C-side: 7. The Crow 8. The Reaper 9.The Children D-side: 10.The Changeling 11.The Witch 12.The Dead