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We are Ascéal from Winterthur. We play folk metal, fusing irish stories told by bagpipes & flutes with clashing riffs and mesmerizing female vocals! Founded in 2018, we worked for two years on completing the bands line-up and writing our first songs. The name Ascéal is a combination of the gallic words ‘a scéal’ which translates into ‘a story’, or ‘telling a story’. Our unique story is not only told by our instruments, but also the legends and myths our songs are based on.

Starting out with a lot of Irish influence to our tunes and lyrics, we ended up taking inspiration wherever we found it and tried enhance the feeling of a song instead of limiting ourselves.

Our current repertoire boasts a variety of self written songs, together with our interpretations of well known bands such as Epica, Nightwish or Eluveite. Backed by concerts, live streams and our first single Drink Whisky, we are ready to rock the stage.