― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 25 February 2006 14:10 (twenty years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 25 February 2006 14:12 (twenty years ago)
― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 25 February 2006 14:25 (twenty years ago)
Triple LP boxset collecting "Sheath & Knife", "Grand Ravishing Extravaganza", "Sevenfold Songs of Death" and "Sturmfuckinglieder" EPs, originally released as CDRs,all very limited. Demented noise collides with blackened forest folk. A frostbitten holocaust of banjo, cello, mandolin, and percussion, with Smolken intoning his darkenend mantras and meditations from somewhere within the maelstrom...
Triple vinyl LP box set with 7 illegible inserts
― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 25 February 2006 14:29 (twenty years ago)
You can get the DRC boxset cheaper from weird forest. $35 http://www.weirdforest.com/store/
― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Saturday, 25 February 2006 14:37 (twenty years ago)
― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Saturday, 25 February 2006 14:39 (twenty years ago)
― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 25 February 2006 14:42 (twenty years ago)
― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Saturday, 25 February 2006 14:43 (twenty years ago)
might be good idea to check out some sounds at the DRC page before emptying your wallet, if you're wary. the leonard cohen cover is more or less representative of the box set material.
― baby, disco is fuck (yournullfame), Saturday, 25 February 2006 21:13 (twenty years ago)
Also Dead Raven Choir have reactivated and a brand new BM album will be out later in year/early 2007 apparently.
― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Saturday, 12 August 2006 10:49 (nineteen years ago)
DEAD RAVEN CHOIR is a horrid blight upon black metal and does great damage to credible black metal artists everywhere. Or perhaps it's keeping black metal alive and interesting. DEAD RAVEN CHOIR doesn't care which it is, just plays excessively harsh black metal covers of country and folk songs. The overall sound is much rawer, louder and harsher than reason or tradition would dictate. The instrumentation is built around bowed bass fiddle, distorted bass guitar, drums and screams. DEAD RAVEN CHOIR, WOLFMANGLER, GARLIC YARG and possibly also TAINT MEAT are the various bands of D. Smolken. DEAD RAVEN CHOIR is the only one that is currently active.
In its earlier incarnation DEAD RAVEN CHOIR was a creepy barbaric folk project with occasional outbursts of exceedingly harsh black metal. It was originally formed in 1996 as a duo consisting of Smolken and a mysterious woman. The idea was to play virulent black metal with lyrics taken from "Winnie-the-Pooh". Fortunately this resulted in only one half-finished song before the mysterious woman disappeared. In 1998 Smolken and another mysterious woman set more A.A. Milne poems to quieter, more restrained music. DEAD RAVEN CHOIR evolved from that point, growing increasingly more raw and dramatic. In August 2004 after two CD releases and over twenty CD-Rs, Smolken abruptly ended all dead raven activity. However, old material continued to be released and reissued, including the Cask Strength Black Metal triple LP box set. 2006 brought the rebirth of DEAD RAVEN CHOIR in an even grimmer form. A new album is currently being recorded for a 2007 release.
WOLFMANGLER's music was slow, grim, noisy and shambling doom metal constructed around a bowed double bass, one or two electric bass guitars and whatever other instruments were available. Approximately half the songs were constructed around dissonant doom riffs; the rest consisted of covers of traditional folk songs, classical music pieces and jazz standards. WOLFMANGLER ceased to make music when
― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Saturday, 12 August 2006 10:50 (nineteen years ago)
― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Saturday, 12 August 2006 10:58 (nineteen years ago)
Aww Scott never answered.
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 14 November 2008 18:16 (seventeen years ago)
i bought the boxed-set used at the record store later. great deal. they were selling it for, like, 20 bucks. i love that thing.
― scott seward, Friday, 14 November 2008 18:32 (seventeen years ago)
Nice score. Did you ever get any other Dead Raven Choir or Wolfmangler?
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 14 November 2008 18:39 (seventeen years ago)
i bought the last couple of things that came out on vinyl. i dug that covers album. and i know i have a couple of other things on cd, i'd have to check for titles though.
― scott seward, Friday, 14 November 2008 18:40 (seventeen years ago)
Yeah it can be hard to remember the names of everything " yeah... that album with 'wolves' in the title...."
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 14 November 2008 18:42 (seventeen years ago)
I think DRC has something due out soon.
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Saturday, 15 November 2008 00:56 (seventeen years ago)
really loved "your firstborn will surely be blind" but could not get into that wolfmangler thing i heard... something about raven skulls for the glory of crucified wolves?? it seemed almost too gray and "sale old." i dunno. i'm sure i'll give it a few more listens in the upcoming months of utter bleakness.
― ian, Sunday, 4 October 2009 04:15 (sixteen years ago)
same old too iirc
really loved "your firstborn will surely be blind"
this is rly good, a little samey perhaps but clearly on to a good thing
― nakhchivan, Wednesday, 7 April 2010 21:28 (fifteen years ago)
I just played that LP, nakh. I need to dig out the other smolken related cds.
― ۩, Sunday, 1 June 2014 16:22 (eleven years ago)
Played the cask strength black metal lp box last night too.
I have wolfmangler lp too im sure but havent located it in any boxes yet
― ۩, Sunday, 1 June 2014 16:23 (eleven years ago)