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[Eoin McLove]

Anyone here in touch with the boul Ciaran Tracey? He seems to have entirely dropped off the planet since deleting MetalIreland. He was a highly talented individual which his work in Hexxed and The Winding Stair attested to in no uncertain terms. I would be interested in hearing more music from him (of course the ideal situation would be a continuation of the ideas Hexxed were exploring in their pre-prog formation). Anyone know if he is working on any new stuff or has he hung up the old bullet belt?

[Slaughterday]

Raging, was hoping for a Creations Tears thread.

In all seriousness though, he was (is?) a big part of the Irish Metal scene. MI was a great resource, especially for anyone new to metal in Ireland looking for scene/gig info.

[Eoin McLove]

Indeed.  MI was invaluable in its day.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

No idea if he still has a toe in the personal music performing side of things, but he's pretty visible in the world of what he does now:
https://bigcitynights.io/

[Eoin McLove]

Wow, fair play to him.  Looks like he has his hands full. I haven't really delved into the world of podcasts. Maybe I should give those a listen.

[Pentagrimes]

Interesting. Perhaps I could pitch a podcast about the collapse of a local niche music message board to his company.

[livingabortion]

He was holding on to the Metal Ireland domain for a long time, he was doing nothing with it, but it looks like it's fully down now, when you go to metalireland.com
He should have released it so someone who wanted to carry on an Irish Metal Forum could of has it.

[Caomhaoin]

He was doing the weather on BBC news line wasn't he?

[livingabortion]

He was doing the weather on BBC news line wasn't he?

No Carol Kirkwood 

[Caomhaoin]

Quite a few people including myself, Andy, Pentagrimes etc put in a lot of man hours of unpaid labour in for that lad. If nothing else, I would like to have those reviews etc still available.

[Slaughterday]

Yeah the reviews, interviews and 'From The Vaults' sections would be great to have on this site in an archive somewhere.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

I don't know about the rest of ye, but I'm pretty sure I still have all the texts I wrote. Don't know whether a) Andy, Kev, Jamie, Donal, Ruts, etc., would be interested in having their stuff back up online, or b) Hambeast would be willing to host it all here, but sure look it, there's the idea floated there. Would be interested to hear from the other concerned parties.

[Caomhaoin]

I might have mine lying around somewhere on an old laptop too.

I hassled Aiden Baker for a month solid to get an interview out if him, and did a three hour Skype call with another band so I was fairly sickened to see it thrown in the 'trash', as the young fella says when he's not teaching me swear words in Polish.

[The Butcher]

Yeah the reviews, interviews and 'From The Vaults' sections would be great to have on this site in an archive somewhere.

It should have been a discussion on the site regards the future of the content/MI with CT steering it. To just discard it after years of some great (and other times hilarious) threads along with the above resources was bad form overall. At least let people have their say in terms of supporting the site, taking over or others taking the content and putting it elsewhere (Irish Metal Archive perhaps). But I can understand not wanting to hand over control of MI to someone who could potentially ruin it. I only did a handful of stuff like gig reviews on the site in the latter years but would be cool to have it up somewhere.

There is definitely room for message boards as niche as this one is. Although the cost outweighed the value for CT in the end. But FB is woeful, devalues any sense of a worthy conversation and I only keep it for event reminders and to contact someone.

Fair play to him with the podcast/company above.,..but some unheard old Hexxed wouldn't go amiss

[H]

If someone had won the lottery then maybe they could have bought it for the type of money he was trying to sell it for at one point a good few years back