CRUACHAN Launch Animated Music Video For New Single ‘The Hawthorn’
October 2nd, 2020
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Dublin, Ireland-based folk metal band Cruachan have released an official animated music video for the track ‘The Hawthorn’. Created by Aldo Solis, the clip can be viewed below.
A track steeped in Irish folklore, ‘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.
Speaking about the song, frontman Keith Fay said: “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 released ‘The Hawthorn’ as a digital single on October 2nd, 2020 through Despotz Records and is available for streaming through major music platforms here.
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‘The Hawthorn’ was recorded during July 2020 at Trackmix Recording Studio in Dublin, and features guest contributions from former GWAR vocalist Kim Dylla on backing vocals and Les Bâtards du Nord’s Geoffrey Dell’Aria on tin whistle and bag pipes.
The song is taken from the band’s as-yet-untitled ninth full-length studio album, which is slated for an early 2021 issue via Despotz.
Cruachan’s current line-up is as follows:
Keith Fay (vocals and guitars)
David Quinn (guitars, Celtachor)
Joe Farrell (bass)
Tom Woodlock (drums, Zhora)
Audrey Trainor (violin)
Eighth studio record Nine Years Of Blood was released in April 2018 via Trollzorn.
