Cluain Tarbh
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- Cluain Tarbh is also the name of an Irish town from which the album takes its name.
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| Released | September 2005 | |||
| Recorded | 2005, Dublin | |||
| Genre | Doom metal, Celtic metal | |||
| Length | 46:50 | |||
| Label | Karmageddon Media | |||
| Producer | Mael Mórdha and Mick Richards | |||
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Cluain Tarbh (Irish for Meadow of Bulls) is the Irish Celtic metal band Mael Mórdha's debut studio album. It was released in September 2005. The album name, along with the band name, can be written as the cover suggests, using Traditional Irish typography. The name would then be, "Cluain Tarḃ."
The album contains eight tracks, the shortest being An Tús at 0:56 long, and the longest being I Am the Wench's Bane at 10:15 long. The album is a collection of popular and newly written material spanning several years in the band's history.
The cover art depicts the Battle of Clontarf or Cath Chluain Tarbh and this is the primary theme of the album's art and title track. The man on the left is a native Irish Gael, presumably fighting on the side of Brian Bóruma mac Cennétig, High King of Ireland. The man on the right appears to be a Viking, fighting on the side of the King of Leinster, Mael Mórdha mac Murchada. Both men are engaged in one-on-one combat against one another.
The album contains lyrics in both English and Irish.