Cruachan - The Ghost (Official Lyric Video)

IRISH FOLK METAL / PAGAN METAL The Ghost is lyrically a very simple song but packs a huge and moving message. The ghost in the song is a child that died at the hands of the nuns in some dark mother and baby home in Ireland. You can see the confusion and anger, why did the child die? Why did so many die at the hands of these monsters for so long? The story continues in our other song The Crow which has an official music video release so check that out! We were delighted to have Vreth from Finntroll as a feature vocalist on this song, combined with Keith’s vocals there is a lot of vocal variation here. The song itself is one of our more extreme songs on The Living and the Dead, lots of death metal and heavy thrash metal throughout, it’s a real mashup of genres and styles all under the umbrella of Cruachan’s classic style of Folk Metal. // Cruachan More about: 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’. D I S C O V E R Spotify: Facebook: Instagram: Bandcamp: Youtube: Website: #cruachan #irishmetal #metal ℗ & © 2023 Despotz Records