CRUACHAN Frontman Interviewed By INFERNAL MASQUERADE (Audio)

April 4, 2011

Infernal Masquerade webzine recently conducted an interview with Keith Fay, frontman of the Irish folk metal band CRUACHAN. During the chat, Fay talked about the concept and ideas behind the band's upcoming sixth album, "Blood On The Black Robe", and the reason the group decided to go back to its "early" sound. He also discussed CRUACHAN's future plans and revealed the band's new guitar player: Joe Farrell, the group's ex-drummer. The interview can now be streamed using the audio player below.

Interview (audio):

"Blood On The Black Robe" will be released on April 18 via Candlelight Records.

The track listing for the CD is as follows:

01. To War
02. I Am Warrior
03. The Column
04. Thy Kingdom Gone
05. An Bean Sidhe
06. Blood on the Black Robe
07. Primeval Odium
08. The Voyage of Bran
09. Brian Boru's March
10. Pagan Hate
11. The Nine Year War

CRUACHAN's fifth album, "The Morrigan's Call", was released in November 2006 via AFM Records. The follow-up to 2004's "Pagan" was recorded at Sun Studios in Dublin.

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