DEAD RAVEN CHOIR - 'Cask Strength Black Metal' 2 x CD (Supernal Music)
DCD version of the Weird Forest 3LP boxset from Polish artist Smolken (Wolfmangler). The most insane black metal release ever! Harsh sounding evil, atmospheric off-kilter black metal. Call it black metal folk. The loudest noisiest crazy insane sounding blasts of skree with strange folky melodic undertones of banjo, cello, mandolin, and percussions and the most frightening vocals ever dared to be recorded. Many traditional folk songs shrouded in blasts of white noise armageddon. For fans of twisted, unique, raw black metal with a very bent edge. Pray (no, commit ritual sacrifice) to the underworld that your stereo survives! For fans of Leviathan, Gorgoroth, Draugar, Xasthur, Burzum etc.
"A three-track EP which belches out some of the most ghost-ridden, wasted, slow and obnoxious guitar punk rock you could ever hope to hear outside of that sector of Hades reserved exclusively for rock stars maudits. Astonishingly, these coarse and corruptive anthems of caustic horror all seem to have begun life as cover versions, including one of a Hank Williams song. Although there’s been a lot of post-modernist water under the bridge since The Residents released their all-time murderous butchery version of ‘Satisfaction’ by The Stones, Dead Raven Choir come close to capturing some of that same gloriously poisonous nihilism" (The Sound Projector). This is one of the last ever releases from Dead Raven Choir (aka Smolken of Wolfmangler). Ltd x 300 copies on red / black marbled vinyl in a heavy PVC sleeve.
UK 11£
Europe 12£
World 13£
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DEAD RAVEN CHOIR - 'My Firstborn Will Surely Be Blind' CD (Aurora Borealis)
Recorded in Poland on archaic Soviet Bloc technology,"My Firstborn Will Surely Be Blind" sees Dead Raven Choir in full throttle audio assault with total disregard for all conventions of audio fidelity, with great songs of the 20th Century by artists diverse as Townes Van Zandt, Richard Thompson and Cole Porter torn limb from limb and dragged through Smolken's forest home. Curiously upbeat in parts, though with harrowing and bizarre artwork. "A ghostly fog. A hollow sonic death rattle: Doom with pneumonia" (The Wire). Digipak.
UK 10.50£
Europe 11.50£
World 12.50£
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DEAD RAVEN CHOIR - 'My Firstborn Will Surely Be Blind' LP (Aurora Borealis)
Recorded in Poland on archaic Soviet Bloc technology,"My Firstborn Will Surely Be Blind" sees Dead Raven Choir in full throttle audio assault with total disregard for all conventions of audio fidelity, with great songs of the 20th Century by artists diverse as Townes Van Zandt, Richard Thompson and Cole Porter torn limb from limb and dragged through Smolken's forest home. Curiously upbeat in parts, though with harrowing and bizarre artwork. "A ghostly fog. A hollow sonic death rattle: Doom with pneumonia" (The Wire). Ltd x 300 copies on 'smoke' coloured vinyl with printed inner sleeve.
UK 14.00£
Europe 17.50£
World 21.00£
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WOLFMANGLER - 'Dwelling In A Dead Raven For The Glory Of Crucified Wolves' 2 x LP (Aurora Borealis)
Wolfmangler is the musical vision of D Smolken, a Polish political émigré, formerly of Dead Raven Choir. His music is slow, grim, noisy, black and shambling; a deconstructed hybrid of twisted folk and hinterland doom metal. Bowed double bass, electric bass and violin merge with sinister growls and whispered lyrics as Wolfmangler improvise dissonant doom riffs around lyrics taken from Hank Williams Jr, Georg Trakl and others, rich with the symbolism of life and decay. Wolfmangler create a listening experience at once unsettling, twisted and darkly beautiful. Comes with 2 vinyl-only bonus, previously-unreleased tracks! Heavyweight vinyl in a gatefold sleeve with 2 posters.
WOLFMANGLER - 'Dwelling In A Dead Raven For The Glory Of Crucified Wolves' CD (Aurora Borealis)
Wolfmangler is the musical vision of D Smolken, a Polish political émigré, formerly of Dead Raven Choir. His music is slow, grim, noisy, black and shambling; a deconstructed hybrid of twisted folk and hinterland doom metal. Bowed double bass, electric bass and violin merge with sinister growls and whispered lyrics as Wolfmangler improvise dissonant doom riffs around lyrics taken from Hank Williams Jr, Georg Trakl and others, rich with the symbolism of life and decay. Wolfmangler create a listening experience at once unsettling, twisted and darkly beautiful.
WOLFMANGLER - 'They Call Us Naughty Wolves' CD (God Is Myth)
D. Smolken (also of Dead Raven Choir) returns to the God is Myth stable in the form of his slow, grim and noisy chamber doom outfit Wolfmangler. With the spirit of past Wolfmangler releases where covers of folk songs, classical music pieces and jazz standards are the main lifeblood, this latest work entitled "They Call Us Naughty Wolves" is the band's unique take on pop music from yesteryear. The results are very much reminiscent of a blackened burlesque chamber ensemble funnelled through a broken radio in a post-apocalyptic wasteland picking up distorted pieces of hits from the 1930s.
