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From The Bogs Of Aughiska To Support Dragged Into Sunlight
Laurie Tuffrey , May 13th, 2013 05:11

West Irish ambient metal group to support mysterious metal crew in Dublin

Here's some news of a thoroughly ungodly alliance to start your week: the excellent From The Bogs Of Aughiska have been announced as the support act for Dragged Into Sunlight's show at The Pint in Dublin on May 24.

You can get hold of tickets here, and whet your appetite with some live footage from ...Bogs Of Aughiska's recent London show below.

tQ's in-house metal man Toby Cook included FTBOA in last month's instalment of his Columnus Metallicus, where he said: "FTBOA create mostly creeping, endlessly unfurling dark ambient noisescapes; subtle, measured waves of crawling pastoral horror, cloaked in a broadly black metal aura and rooted in the myth and folklore of the pair's native Western Ireland". Read in full here.