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VOTE FOR OUR SONG "NEZLOMNI" IN HIT PARADE (4.12.2011)


Song "Nezlomni" from our debut "Lead - Not follow" is just now in Czech METALPARADE.
Please vote for us (just click on "hlasovat"). Thank you for support!


"LEAD - NOT FOLLOW" RELEASED BY BLACK BARDS, SUPPORTED BY EUROPIAN TOUR! (5.11.2011)


On the 4th November, BLACK BARDS officially released our debut album "LEAD - NOT FOLLOW". Since this day, you can purchase our album in many online shops worldwide and also buy it in music stores in most states of Europe and in United States.


LEAD - NOT FOLLOW (trailer)

The release will be supported by tour BLACK TROLLS OVER EUROPE III, on which we play side by side with SUIDAKRA, XIV DARK CENTURIES, WAYLANDER, ODROERIR and CHAIN OF DOGS! First stop of the tour will be BLACK TROLL WINTERFEST with killer line-up! Wanna see many great bands as IMMORTAL, PRIMORDIAL, MOONSORROW, ENSIFERUM, CRIMFALL, TÝR, NORTHLAND, NEGATOR and DRAUGR during one event? Here you can!


12.11.-20.11. - BLACK TROLLS OVER EUROPE III
12.11. - BLACK TROLL WINTERFEST III








See you on the road!




CRUADALACH´S DEBUT OUT SOON! (9.10.2011)


Cruadalach comes with its debut album "Lead - Not Follow"! For Europe and US the debut will be released by our label BLACK BARDS, exkluzively for Czech and Slovak trade there will be a licensing release by our partner, Czech label METALGATE.

Press release: CRUADALACH RELEASES ITS DEBUT ALBUM "LEAD - NOT FOLLOW"



The release will be supported with several Cruadalach´s gigs in Czech Republic and abroad! In October we will gig on our V Říjnu odjedeme Samhainfests in Poland, Italy and Czech Republic, side by side with our friends KRAMPUS, PERCIVAL SCHUTTENBACH, NIBURTA, PERCIVAL, VECORDIA, CLAWED FOREHEAD and Słowiański Mit o Stworzeniu Świata. Then in October we will pass BLACK TROLLS OVER EUROPE III, grandiose tour across Germany and Netherlands, with one stop in Czech Republic, side by side with SUIDAKRA, XIV DARK CENTURIES, WAYLANDER, ODROERIR and CHAIN OF DOGS! First stop of this tour will be at famous BLACK TROLL WINTERFEST together with IMMORTAL, PRIMORDIAL, MOONSORROW, ENSIFERUM, CRIMFALL, TÝR, NORTHLAND, NEGATOR and DRAUGR.


Celebrate with us coming of a new creation at any of our gigs!


28.-29.10. - SAMHAINFEST BRNO (FAVÁL) A PRAHA (EXIT-US)
16.11. - BLACK TROLLS OVER EUROPE III, PRAHA (EXIT-US)

15.10. - SAMHAINFEST ITÁLIE - UDINE (PIPER CLUB)
15.10. - SAMHAINFEST POLSKO (Varšava, Poznaň, Wroclaw)
12.11.-20.11. - BLACK TROLLS OVER EUROPE III
12.11. - BLACK TROLL WINTERFEST III







LEAD - NOT FOLLOW (trailer)


SAMHAINFEST IN POLAND AND CZECH REPUBLIC (horor trailer)


SAMHAINFEST BOHEMIA - PRAGUE AND BRNO (trailer)


SAMHAINFEST IN POLAND (trailer)



We are looking forward to meet you on the road!


AUTUMN MEETINGS (29.8.2011)


We would like to invite you to our autumn gigs! First of them will take place in September in Plzeň, club Watt, together with bands INTERITUS and GHOST IN THE SHELL. In October, we will gig at amazing Crossover SickFest in Bzí by Železný Brod and at international tour Samhainfest 2011 together with Italian KRAMPUS, Polish PERCIVAL SCHUTTENBACH and CLAWED FOREHEAD from Brno; its two stops will take place in Brno and Prague at the end of month. This everything as dress rehearsal prior to grandiose 9-day west-Europian tour in November, called Black Trolls Over Europe III, which we pass together with bands SUIDAKRA (Ger), WAYLANDER (UK), XIV DARK CENTURIES (Ger), ODROERIR (Ger) and CHAIN OF DOGS (NL) and which first stop will take place at cultic German Black Troll Winterfest, side by side with IMMORTAL (Nor), PRIMORDIAL (Ire), ENSIFERUM (Fin), MOONSORROW (Fin), TÝR (Fro), CRIMFALL (Fin), NEGATOR (Ger) and NORTHLAND (Esp).

We are looking forward to meet all of you who will attend our shindings, enjoy them with us and encourage us and our friends for next fights!


10.9. - PLZEŇ, KLUB WATT
1.10. - CROSSOVER SICKFEST III, BZÍ
28.-29.10. - SAMHAINFEST BRNO (FAVÁL) and PRAGUE (EXIT-US)

12.11. - BLACK TROLL WINTERFEST III









We thank a lot all organizers who invited us to their summer events! All of them were amazing and we will always recall them with love! And maybe we will meet again in one, two or more years! See you!


Statement of CRUADALACH to Northern Lights 2011 (19.6.2011)


statement.pdf


CRUADALACH AT SUMMER OPEN AIRS (10.5.2011)


Summer is coming and with it the time of summer open air festivals! And despite the times of preparation and recording our debut, we will play for you at five festivals in five states: Austria, Czechia, Germany, Moravia and Slovakia! Where shall we meet you? :)


24.-25.6. - NORTHERN LIGHTS FESTIVAL (AUT)
24.-25.6. - APOCALYPTIC FORM OF DEATH (CZE)
1.-2.7. - HOERNERFEST (GER)
22.-23.7. - KELTSKÁ NOC PLUMLOV (MOR)
19.-20.8. - GOTHOOM & EXTREME CORE TERROR (SK)





GOTHOOM & EXTREME CORE TERROR Open Air - Trailer


RELEASE OF OUR LP "AGNI - UNVEIL WHAT´S BURNING INSIDE (9.4.2011)


We would like to announce a possibility to order our LP Agni - Unveil what´s burning inside. You can order this LP via http://www.paratmagazine.com. RELEASE PARTY of the vinyl will take place 29.4. 2011 in Exit Chmelnice, at Prague stop of our international Beltinefest tour.






We hope to make you pleased with this our special gift!

Bohemian tribe of CRUADALACH proudly announces the sign of contract with German label BLACK BARDS ENTERTAINMENT and many other news! (9.1.2011)


Folk metal tribe from Czech Republic called CRUADALACH just signed the contracts for albums and booking in Western Europe with German label BLACK BARDS ENTERTAINMENT which is home of hordes like ADORNED BROOD, HEATHEN FORAY, NORTHLAND or HELJAREYGA. Among others it means that CRUADALACH are gonna record their first album (unnamed yet) on July 2011 which will be released this year!






Then we would like to announce that our EP "AGNI - Unveil what’s burning inside" which will be released through Pařát magazine on 16th February 2011 will be released also in special vinyl version with one exclusive bonus track, celtic anthem myth of Carnutian forest called "Cernunnos, zlatooký král". Vinyl version of EP will be released in limited edition on April 2011.

In every way, we will baptize our first LP "AGNI - Unveil what’s burning inside" in Ostrava on 26th March 2011, more details will be specified soon!

Of course we will have many other information - for example we did new merchandise with "AGNI" theme which you can buy from our e-shop or during our live shows. By the way, many of shows are in planning! We also want to announce that our Samhainfest 2010 has its successor in BELTINE FEST 2011 with bands STRIBOG (HR), NIBURTA (HUN) and ŽREC (CZE) containing four gigs:

15/4 Budapest (HUN), Blue Hell - CRUADALACH, NIBURTA, STRIBOG, ŽREC + TBA
16/4 Nitra (SVK) - RC naOZZaY - CRUADALACH, NIBURTA, STRIBOG, ŽREC + TBA
29/4 Prague (CZE) - Exit Chmelnice - CRUADALACH, NIBURTA, STRIBOG, ŽREC + GNOMUS
30/4 Brno (CZE) - Melodka - CRUADALACH, NIBURTA, STRIBOG, ŽREC + SEZARBIL

Tribe of CRUADALACH will also attend Hoernerfest 2011, Germany, with bands like HAGGARD or OMNIA and Northern Lights Fest 2011, Austria, side by side with KRODA or KING OF ASGARD!

Journey of celtic rage continues!




Cancellation of gig at Darkfest in Olomouc (18.12.2010)


We appologize for cancellation of our today´s show at Darkfest in Olomouc, Czech Republic. Unfortunately, our drummer has acute tendinitis in his left hand and is not able to play and work for several weeks. We all wish him early recovery and are looking forward to see you at our next gigs!


Tribe of CRUADALACH records it’s first EP! (21.11.2010)






Recently folk metal tribe of CRUADALACH records in studio of Fedor Furnadziev (ET MORIEMUR) seven tracks (in length of around half-hour) for EP "Agni - Unveil what’s burning inside" which will be released as an attachement of February issue of magazine Pařát. EP will contain songs known from promo "V rytmu staré krve" (of course in brand new and much better shape), but also new ones which you could hear just on live gigs so far.

Music of CRUADALACH is rised from pagan roots and medieval themes and it uses unique instruments like bag-pipes or shawms. Beside strong feeling for melodies is tribe of CRUADALACH known for it’s savage and aggressive live shows. Thanks to recent international Samhainfest also fans from Germany and Slovenia could persuade themselves about that.

EP "Agni - Unveil what’s burning inside" will be released on 15th February 11 as original CD and you can buy it together with MAGAZINE PARAT for 99 CZK (around 4 Eur).


DARKFEST - EVERLASTING DARK - CD release celebration in Olomouc (CZ) (15.11.2010)


We would like to invite you to DARKFEST, the festival organized by our friends EVERLASTING DARK on the ocassion of release of their new CD, which will be distributed with the Pařát magazine during December 2010. It’s our honor to accept the invitation for such a great event for every band like celebration of CD release. Also we gonna do everything to keep perfect atmosphere of the event! In every case you can look forward to all other bands which join this festival: MINDWORK, SINISTRA, DRACO HYPNALIS a ASSESSOR.

We are looking forward to everyone who will join this amazing event!
See you 18.12.2010 in Olomouc, S-klub.






SAMHAINFEST 2010 - International touring festival (13.10.2010)


Prague SAMHAINFEST will continue with following stops:


On Saturday 30.10. there will be a SAMHAINFEST BOHEMIA Afterparty in club Hvězda in Teplice, where gothic metal band DEMENCIA MORTALIS invites CRUADALACH and amazing Slovenian folk metal band BREZNO. Other performers that evening will be FETID CARRION and SIXTH DIMENSION, both Czech Republic.






On Friday of 5th November will CRUADALACH perform it’s show in German city Deggendorf, club „Alfa et Omega“ side by side with hosting viking band NOTHGARD and invited folk rockers SACRED SILENCE (Ger) and vikings HEATHEN FORRAY (Aut).
Festival is called SAMHAINFEST GERMANY (click to get more info).

We thank a lot to Black Bards Entertainment agency for help with organising this event.






On Saturday of 6th November CRUADALACH attends SAMHAINFEST 2010 SLOVENIA – Svarunova Noč in Ljubljana (SLO) in KUD France prešeren. Hosting band is BREZNO joining bands are SAGARIS (Slo) and MLË!! (Slo).







If you wanna get more info about INTERNATIONAL SAMHAINFEST, check our blog http://samhainfest.wordpress.com.


SAMHAINFEST 2010 - 29.10.2010, Exit Chmelnice: Celebrate with us celtic Halloween! (30.8.2010)





Celebrate with us celtic feast Samhain with stylish hard music!
At SAMHAINFEST 2010 (which is celtic Halloween) will present their shows three bands from Prague inspired by celtic tradition: DICK O´BRASS, HAKKA MUGGIES and CRUADALACH. But above all, SAMHAINFEST 2010 is the unique opportunity to meet upcoming stars of Europian pagan/folk metal from abroad who fittingly break this otherwise monothematic celtic party. The bands who accepted our invitation are NOTHGARD from Germany and BREZNO from Slovenian Ljubljana.

More about SAMHAINFEST 2010 and attending bands


And that is not everything! If you are interested in further events of clan Cruadalach, you can check them in the section GIGS.
Hell Fast Attack vol. 4 is the only summer fest for Cruadalach (10. 07.2010)



Due to our concentration on pre-production of the first full-lenght release we play only one summer festival this year. The chosen one is Hell Fast Attack vol. 4 where we play after our companions of Skyforger on Friday night. Will you stay wake up?

Cruadalach side by side with Belphegor (AUS) and Darzamat (POL) (31. 05.2010)



Hey there! We just finished the tour and immediatelly starting next gigs, so see you at MetalGate Open Air!

Tribe of CRUADALACH side by side with ARKONA (RUS) in Czech republic! (8. 04.2010)



We are still on tour! Tomorrow we visit Slovakian Poprad and after tomorrow Presov (beware, gig is moved to club Bunker!!!!) - everyone is welcome, same as to other concerts... don’t worry and check our gig section where you can find all what’s necessary. Much more to come and we want to show you how clan of CRUADALACH fight live! We still manage next shows so we are glad to announce that CRUADALACH will be support of Russian ARKONA in Prague (15. 6. 2010) and Brno (16. 6. 2010)! Gig in Prague will be also supported by Trollech and the one in Brno by Asgard.

CRUADALACH attend Hear our Voices! Tour 2010 (05. 03.2010)



Hey, friends!
It’s our pleasure to announce that since the beginning of April our clan ride the battles again throughout Czech and Slovakian Republic. Now with extended line-up and new songs! Side by side with bands Six Degrees of Separation and Abstract we’ll visit 12 places.Come and listen! Hear our voices!

VOTING FOR CZECH METALFEST NOT VALID (23. 2.2010)

Czech organizer of Metalfest does not take in account the inquiry for attending at the festival which is operated by the main organizer of Metalfest, agency Rock The Nation. So this battle is not valid for Metalfest in Czech republic. We apologize to everyone who made his effort to vote for us. See you at another event!

Please, vote for our attendance to open air MetalFest 2010! (12. 02.2010)



Please vote for us here! It will take few seconds of your time and you will help us so much!

THANKS!

OUR FIRST PROMO RELEASE "V rytmu stare krve" IS OUT! (31. 01.2010)



Hello everyone, we finally done our first promo release. More in section "demo" but you can of course download all stuff from this link. Feel free to cooperate with us and write us your opinion! Enjoy!

Petr Korál: "I saw in the CRUADALACH future of Czech metal!" (15. 12.2009)

More in the report: iRockShock, 5.12. 2009, Praha

Keltský Mikuláš 2009 in Prague!  (28.11.2009)
Come to celebrate St. Nicholas eve in way of celtic spirit! Bands Cruadalach, Hakka Muggies and Unfairy Tales are gonna play on 5th of December 2009 in rock club Motoráj in Prague. We will introduce two new tracks so come, we are looking forward to see you!

Future battles, anthems to play... (26.10.2009)
Again from our den with important news:

Gigs – as you can see, on 5th of December we plan amazing celebration of St. Nicholas with it’s devils and deamons. Coal and chocolate! This time in „unmetal“ way, cause we are gonna play with pure celtic bands like Hakka Muggies. You can see us live also on great festival Winter Metal Attack 2010 which will happen on 16th January 2010 when we rise swords together with Beltaine and other great bands. Sounds good, isn’t it?

Promo – nights are cold, but we don’t lie in our beds. By contraries, we are spending them in our den when we record our first three-track promo, which will be out in the end of the year 2009. And tracks? There surely must be songs like „Pramen Epony“ or „On Golden Times“!

In the end we would like to introduce you are blog when you can check our report from past Meán Fórmháir – Svěcení podzimu 2009 tour with bands Creed of Life and Dissolving of Prodigy. Alas, just in Czech language.

See you during battles to come!

Report (23.10.2009)

Metalswamp, 26.9. 2009, Přerov

Report (23.10.2009)

SunGate, 25.9. 2009, Ostrava

End of autumnal tour Cruadalach and the beginning of new age (1.10.2009)
Thanks to all who joined us on one of our stages during historically first tour of band. Now we are going to prepare english version of web for you, e-shop and of course promo CD. You can also join us on our facebook profile and myspace.com.

Who wants our T-shirt produced for first tour by Crystal Productions, it costs 8 Euro. There are male L and XL and M for females. Concerned persons please write on info@cruadalach.com. Just few pieces left.

Photoreport (25.9.2009)

Photomusic, 25.9. 2009, Ostrava

Photoreport (25.9.2009)

Metalzone, 25.9. 2009, Ostrava

Photoreport (18.9.2009)

Mortemzine, 18.9. 2009, Bánská Bystrica

Report (16.9.2009)

Mortemzine, 11.9. 2009, Plzeň