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Cruachan is certainly not one of the
most productive metal bands on this Earth but they are still one of the most
interesting ones. On how many albums do you get the chance to listen to
instruments like bag pipes, irish flutes, tinwhistles, bodhrans and uilleann
pipes? This Irish band have managed to mix celtic folk music with metal and
they do it just as good as Skyclad, if not better. Their debut album suffered
from a bad production but that is not the case this time. The guitars are
clear and the female vocals from Karen Gilligan are stronger than ever before.
Except for a pretty boring intro this album contains nothing but great music
although I like the first half of the album best. While the first album was a
mix of folk music and black metal, "The Middle Kingdom" only occasionally
sounds a little black. Most of the music is classic heavy metal spiced up with
folk music and the strong female vocals is one of many reasons why Cruachan
sound so good. If you haven't heard this band before you have missed out on
one of the best folk metal acts in the
world.
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1. A Celtic |
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Mourning 2. Celtica (Voice Of The Morrigan) 3. The Fianna |
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4. A Druids Passing 5. Is Fuair An Chroí 6. Cattle Raid Of |
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Cooley (Táin Bó Cuailgne) 7. The Middle Kingdom 8. Óró Sé do |
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Bheatha Abhaile 9. Unstabled (Steeds Of Macha) 10. The |
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Butterfly Bonus track: 11. To Hell Or To Connaught |
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