Irish Power Metal

sobriety

I didn't have much hope of finding progressive or power metal bands in ireland, but messing about on myspace I uncovered this band:
http://www.myspace.com/darckrystal

Bloody 'ell... how did I not know about this band? They are seriously impressive. im a huge hammerfall, rhapsody, gamma ray, heloween, iron maiden fan, and if you are too, check them out.

there is not much info available about them anywhere... I've checked metalireland.com.

they sound very tight and well rehearsed. are they even still doing gigs? the myspace site is useless...

Edit: listening to the song Ancient power now, it's their best track!! "hear my war cryyyyy..." great

DenMan

Cheers for that man, must suss them out. Another huge Hammerfall fan here too. Here is another, these guys are based in Belfast and sound bloody good aswell.Ireland potentially is a brilliant place for new Power Metal acts. Very good underground scene here from what I have been hearing.

http://www.myspace.com/secretsofsteel

rainbow kirby

Must check it out, I'm looking out for some good new power metal at the moment

GhostInTheRuins

Well their website hasn't been updated since 2003 so it doesn't look like they're stilll around, or if they are they aren't up to much lately

You might like these guys too - http://www.myspace.com/celticlegacy (If you don't already that is)

Dagon

Hey guys.. I'm involved with Dark Crystal, and yes we are still on the go! College and various other things got in the way for a while, and the years just seemed to fly by. But we're currently working on a new demo CD which will have a much better production, as everyone has a lot more experience now in playing / songwriting. So stay tuned

We put the myspace page up recently because we've had a lot of requests from people who were after the old demo. It was released on mp3.com in 2003, and we were shipping it through mp3.com. So when they shut down in late 2003, the demo was no longer available.. we'd planned a follow up in 2004 but it never made it because I'd started doing other music projects and also busy with college. But now we're concentrating on the new one and songs are ready to go...

DenMan

Hey Dagon

Thanks for the update man. Hope it goes great for you. Any idea where you will be booking yourselves to record the demo CD? Keep up the great work. If you are out and about playing a few gigs let us know and we can head down and support you. Good luck.

Den

cournioni

Scavenger from Drogheda used to have a few decent tracks. Not sure if they are still around or not...

FunkZ

Celtic LAgacy, check em out OP.

Gonna listen to that band now, we need more PM gigs here! Last I was at was freakin' Hammerfall

DenMan

That's a great idea FunkZ. It will give us the chance to suss out all these potentially great bands from Ireland and many others. Nice one.

sobriety

i would love to see an irish festival with power metal bands playing! like dark crystal for instance, and steel tormentor, those two are the best metal bands in ireland i reckon