Cruachan - The Reaper (Official HQ Audio Stream)

IRISH FOLK METAL / PAGAN METAL Listen to The Reaper via optional platforms: You can now pre-order Cruachan’s upcoming album via; Webshop: Bandcamp: ‘The Reaper’, the third 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. Featuring Sinead Richards, she’s only 14 year old and daughter of our producer. “She is a huge talent and aded such orchestral heft to this song that we can’t imagine how it would sound without her contribution. The song ’The Reaper’ is about my dad, who sadly passed away in 2020. There was a point when Audrey was layering the strings section for this song, I was listening with Joe and our producer Mick and it literally brought me to tears. I turned to Joe and all I could man