Mael Mórdha

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Mael Mórdha
Origin Ireland
Genre(s) Celtic metal
Doom metal
Years active 1998 - present
Label(s) Grau Records
Karmageddon Media
Deasmumhan
Members
Roibéard Ó Bogail
Gerry Clince
Anthony Lindsay
Dave Murphy
Shane Cahill

Mael Mórdha is a doom metal band from Ireland. Its name can also be written in traditional Irish typography and, as their former logo displays, as "Mael Mórḋa." Mael Mórdha (pronounced MAIL MOOR-AH) has blended doom metal and Gaelic Irish laments (the slower elements of traditional Irish music) to create what they refer to as Gaelic doom metal.

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[edit] History

Mael Mórdha was formed in January 1998 by Roibéard Ó Bogail. On the strength of the band’s last two E.P.s, Caoineadh na nGael and Cluain Tarbh, the band was signed to Dutch label Karmageddon Media which released the band’s first album, Cluain Tarbh on the 12th of September 2005. An alternative recording of the album title track was released on a limited edition 7 inch vinyl split with their fellow Irishmen Primordial, through Sentinel Records in the winter of 2005.

Due to severe internal problems within Karmageddon and a lack of availability of the album, the band left the label and signed to Grau Records in Germany in Februaury 2006. Gealtacht Mael Mórdha is the band's first album to be released through Grau Records, on the 19th of March 2007.

The band has played the Abbeyleix Metalfest (Éire - 1999), Day Of Darkness (Éire - 2003, 2004, 2007), Bloodstock (England - 2006), Heathen Crusade II (Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA- 2007), Doom Shall Rise, (Göppingen, Germany - 2007) and Dutch Doom Days,(Rotterdam, The Netherlands - 2007).

Controversially, the band entered the Irish leg of the Eurovision Song Contest 2005 in late 2004 with the aim of entering the finals held in Kiev, Ukraine in 2005.

[edit] Members

[edit] Current

  • Roibéard Ó Bogail - vocals, piano, tin whistles
  • Gerry Clince - guitars
  • Anthony Lindsay - guitars
  • Dave Murphy - bass
  • Shane Cahill - drums

[edit] Discography

[edit] Albums

Year Album
2005 Cluain Tarbh
2007 Gealtacht Mael Mórdha

[edit] EPs/Splits

Year EP
1999 The Path to Insanity
2000 The Inferno Spreads
2003 Caoineadh na nGael
2004 Cluain Tarbh E.P.
2005 Primordial/Mael Mórdha

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