Metal City Raven

Album info

Album-Release:
2020

HRA-Release:
18.09.2020

Label: Steamhammer

Genre: Rock

Subgenre: Metal

Artist: Raven

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  • 1 The Power 03:53
  • 2 Top of the Mountain 03:36
  • 3 Human Race 03:59
  • 4 Metal City 03:27
  • 5 Battlescarred 04:45
  • 6 Cybertron 03:24
  • 7 Motorheadin' 02:42
  • 8 Not so Easy 03:09
  • 9 Break 03:39
  • 10 When Worlds Collide 06:15
  • Total Runtime 38:49

Info for Metal City

Mitunter sind es nur die berühmten kleinen Stellschrauben, an denen man drehen muss, um als Musiker seiner Kreativität gehörig Nachschub zu verleihen. Im Fall des in New York ansässigen Metal-Trios Raven der englischen Brüder John (Bass, Gesang) und Mark (Gitarre) Gallagher waren es die durchgehend positiven Resonanzen auf ihre 2015er Veröffentlichung ExtermiNation, vor allem aber der Einstieg von Schlagzeuger Mike Heller (er kam im Sommer 2017 für den gesundheitlich angeschlagenen Joe Hasselvander), die nun zu einem begeisternden neuen Album geführt haben. Unser Ziel war, die Messlatte noch einmal ein ganzes Stück höher zu hängen. Wir haben mit ExtermiNation eine überzeugende Scheibe abgeliefert und uns vorgenommen, diesmal in allen Bereichen zuzulegen , schmunzelt John Gallagher. Allerdings nahm die Sache erst so richtig Fahrt auf, als Mike an Bord kam. Die Intensität und das Tempo sind seither um einiges höher. Mike ist ein absolutes Energiebündel, er besitzt ein gutes Gehör und ist Fan der früheren Alben, vor allem von ihrem besonderen Flair. Er hat uns auf ein höheres Level gehievt, auf dem wir das Gefühl haben, wirklich alles ohne Einschränkungen spielen zu können. Gallaghers Ausführungen klingen in der Tat nach purer Spielfreude und Enthusiasmus, also Vorhang auf für Metal City, auf dem Raven zehn Songs lang aus vollen Rohren feuern.

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Raven
According to the pages of the various metal media, the labels "LEGENDARY," "INNOVATIVE," "TRUE ORIGINALS," as well as "LUNATICS!” have been rightfully pinned upon RAVEN over the years. In a music scene filled by clones nurtured with a cookie-cutter mentality, the unique personality, power and humor of the three band members has always shone through. The crazed vocals & bass playing of John Gallagher, the full frontal guitar assault of brother, Mark Gallagher, and the punishing polyrhythmic pounding of drummer, Joe Hasselvander, all combine to form a sonic battering ram unique in rock!

From the well documented early days as NWOBHM (New Wave of British Heavy Metal) frontrunners, RAVEN’s albums ROCK UNTIL YOU DROP, WIPED OUT and ALL FOR ONE virtually invented both the speed metal and power metal genres - during the trailblazing USA tours of the 80's introducing the States to “Athletic rock” as well as giving opening acts like Metallica and Anthrax their first tours, through the doldrums of the late 80's/early 90's when a grunge obsessed media wrote off so many acts - RAVEN has consistently proved to be both survivors par excellence and in a genre of grim imitation - shown that they are "the real thing". Where so many of their contemporaries have either faded creatively or become parodies of themselves, RAVEN have consistently pushed the envelope while retaining their unique sound and attack – both in the studio & in their true element, onstage!

Following a forced layoff through half of the last decade due to Mark Gallagher’s long recuperation from a serious accident where Mark’s legs were crushed after a wall collapsed on the musician, the band have fought back with a number of European festival appearances, a UK tour in 2008 and a triumphant jaunt to Japan in 2009.

In 2010, the band unleashed the best album they’ve done in many years, “Walk Through Fire” – quite simply, was the real deal – the right songs, the right sound and the right feel – that was guaranteed to rip yer head off! Raven are here to finally set to reclaim the title that is rightfully theirs – “the wildest band in the f**kin’ world!”

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