Cruachan - The Crow (Official Music Video)

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IRISH FOLK METAL / PAGAN METAL

"From the uplifting excitement and energy of track one, The Living, this album grabs your heart and mind then drags them on a fantastic journey through haunting and foreboding stories put to sublimely beautiful folk and aggressive metal, constantly interweaving until we reach.... The Dead"
- Jon Campling / Actor (Harry Potter, Final Fantasy)

‘The Crow’, the second single from Irish folk-metal pioneers Cruachan upcoming ninth album ‘The Living and the Dead’, is a wonderful blend of the band’s hardest metal riffs and hauntingly beautiful folk and traditional instruments. The song was written to commemorate all those who died in Ireland’s Mother and Baby Homes. Featuring backing vocals from actor Jon Campling (Harry Potter, Final Fantasy), who makes his recording debut on this track.

Mother and baby homes were run by religious orders, starting in the 1920s, and funded by the Irish government. 9000 children died at 14 mother and baby homes over several decades. The institutions, where unmarried women and girls were sent to give birth in secrecy and were pressured to give their children up for adoption, were also responsible for unethical vaccine trials and traumatic emotional abuse.

For decades, the stories of these places and the atrocities carried out in them, were largely unspoken or brushed under the carpet — despite calls from the mothers who became virtual prisoners within their walls and children who spent their earliest years there, later sharing stories of neglect and abuse.

But as Ireland made strides to reckon with the uglier aspects of its conservative Catholic roots, deeply intertwined with the foundation of the state, there have been recent moments when the scale of the systemic abuses have been thrust into the light.

The biggest controversy, and the story that brought this to the worlds attention was the ‘Tuam Baby Controversy’ where hundreds of infant skeletons were discovered in a septic tank near a home in Tuam, County Galway.

In the song, the dead children are not forgotten. They are innocent souls, they fell on a battlefield they never asked to be in. The Crow is The Morrigan, she comes to claim these fallen children and save them from the horrors perpetrated by the church.

The Crow shown in the thumbnail and throughout the video is a Carrion Crow. They look almost exactly like a raven (which is also a member of the crow family) but a lot smaller. This is the form attributed to the Morrigan.

Credits:
Backing Vocals – Kim Dylla, Jon Campling
Tin Whistle – Geoffrey Dell’Aria

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this band is criminally underexposed, underrated, and needs to gain some traction over here in the US

sittingyak
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I'm Brazilian and I love Celtic music. I would like to visit Ireland.

elildo
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I'm an American, but I would seriously root for Ireland if RTÉ sent y'all next year. It's some of the best Irish music I've heard in a long time, and I grew up in a family that loves Celtic Music!

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I just started listening to folk metal & found your band. Holy fuck!!!! Absolutely amazing music! Been listening to your music now for a month non-stop. Wow!

johns.
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The Crow

Black as coal with the Devil's eye
Fly like a witch in the evening sky
Black as coal with the Devil's eye
Men flee, men hide, and children cry

Oh the crow does sit on the shortest branch
Of the oldest oak there be
And she views her vast surroundings
With an ominous sense of glee
She's more devious than the falcon
She is wiser than the owl
She has seen the greatest feats of men
And has witnessed deeds most foul


Black as coal with the Devil's eye
Fly like a witch in the evening sky
Black as coal with the Devil's eye
Men flee, men hide, and children cry

Oh she softly glides to the earth below
Cloaked in childish dreams of night
And settles upon a pile of dead
Neither sorrowful nor contrite
For the dead - they were once children
They were wards of a pious state
Well now they lie here lifeless
Victims of an imposed faith

Black as coal with the Devil's eye
Fly like a witch in the evening sky
Black as coal with the Devil's eye
Men flee, men hide, and children cry


Oh the sisters call her a wicked bird
As they run and wave their arms
But the crow respects the olden ways
Of nature spells, and forest charms
She calls the children to her
And to her they do come
They leave the evils of men's earth
And fly towards the rising sun

lucastaylor
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Cruachan has a special place in my heart.

radegast
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Royal like! Great band that I've been listening to for a long time. Serious music. I love Celtic music, mythology, folklore and Celtic tattoos. Hello Ireland from Russia.

anterovipunen
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Here to check you guys out after "Metal Jesus Rocks" gave you a shout in one of his vinyl pickup videos. You're awesome, like driving along with the radio flicking between two completely different stations! Love it

ThePtb
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Thank you for this absolutely stunning single. The voice of the Morrigan is strong here. May she bring glory and honour to the survivors of clerical violence.

lordstronghold
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I haven't heard of cruachan since early 2000's. Ride On is such a beautiful song. Keep it up!

sicmop
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Always marveled at how these birds will be the only thing flying in - 30C plus wind chill. Kings of Brain Freeze!

AmmoCM
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Been a fan since "Tuatha Na Gael" and have never been disappointed!
Can't wait for the new album!
Alex from The Metal Observer

TheWeaverofDreams
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"Folk metal" on Wikipedia took me here 😂 I don't know how I never looked it up but I randomly stumbled on it.

whatabouttheearth
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I just went to a Renaissance Fair this past Sunday April 7, 2024, and I've been addicted to this kind of music since then. Awesome and unique blend of folk/Nordic music and metal.

StaticBlaster
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Been a fan for a long time. Sad story, great track. I hope to see them live one day.

musthavemetalradio
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All I have to say More I love how it switches from folk to metal+folk. Haven't heard a song this good since Cu Culåin by Miracle of Sound

RoastedJoeGaming
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Exactly the kind of folk metal that's been missing lately. I needed this

jesseslocum
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This is what I look for in metal: Originality and beauty. Yet, they managed to deliver this with perfection along the way ♥️♥️ long live Cruachan !!🤘🤘

linkamoreno
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What an album I can't stop listening to it, Best album of 2023 so far 😎🤘

bernardskerritt
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I have listened some older stuff ages ago but this one its awesome!!! i want more!!! Hello from Finland

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