RAVENS CREED - ALBION THUNDER (Cd Review)

01.Peace Through Superior Firepower

02.Pear Of Anguish

03.Insignia

04.Butcher Of The Whore

05.Pox Mortis

06.The Power Of Spite

07.Hail The Warbeast

08 Stand up and Be Cunted

09.Bloodbath

10.Spy On Your Swine

11.Storm The Gates

12.Unholy Force Of Extraordinary Magnitude

Steve Watson (Guitar)

Jay Graham (Drums)

Ben Ward (Vocals)

Frazer Craske (Bass)

Ravens Creed were formed in late 2006 by Steve Watson (ex Iron Monkey) and Jay Graham (ex Skyclad and former session drummer for Tony Iommi).Steve then contacted his friend, Ben Ward (Orange Goblin) and Martyn Millard (Orange Goblin) and asked them if they fancied climbing aboard the sturdy bullet-ridden tank and melting brains with riffs, the foursome recorded the Militia of blood sacrifice 7" and it was released worldwide by Land O' smiles records (ltd to 500 80mg copies).

The band rehearsed whenever possible and it sounded like a lead fire door being attacked by crazed escapees from a lunatic asylum. Now with the nest working at full capacity it is time for all and sundry to take cover from the carpet bombing assault that is to follow!

Martyn Millard left in January 2008 due to lack of time to rehearse and he was replaced by Frazer Craske (ex-Sabbat).
Last year there were more gigs and an amazing ep (Reviewed elsewhere in this blog), but now we have a full blown album, time to hit play, crank it up and run for cover!!!!!!!!

Fucking hell it starts with a woman screaming and then just blasts into the most brutal old school heavy metal and it doesnt stop!

I love the catchy "Bring out your dead" line from 'Pox Mortis' and the song has a real punch in the guts riff.

'The Power Of Spite' has a stoner/doom quality about it and it comes in at just over 5 minutes which is quite a surprise as most of the tracks are a lot shorter.

We then continue the aural assault until the end with the same speed and fury and no filler tracks.

Ravens Creed are to my mind the only band who truly understand black metal originators Venom, they have managed to capture that chaos that Cronos did when he fused those punk influences with Motorhead back in 1979/80.
There are no frills here, its just pure and hits the spot like a triple shot of absinthe!

Rating 10/10

For fans of : Venom, Discharge, Motorhead, Orange Goblin, Warfare, Tank.

STU

OCCUPIERS POD TYPE THING SHOW 1 (Free Download)

1.ManBearPig

2.Viking Skull - Blackend Sunrise

3.Cavalar - Blind Eye

4.Ravens Creed - Panzer Maniac

5.Marcus Hell & Stu

6.Matron - Welcome To Hell

7.Boiler Room Speech From Hellraiser

8.Nothing To Lose - Dig Your Grave

9.Chaosanct - Slither

10.Eric Idle - Penis Song

11.Narkan - Eat My Ass

12.Morrigan Hel & Stu

13.Nemhain - Did Die My Darling

14.Candyman Lament

15.Witchsorrow - Trial Of Elizabeth Clarke

16.Tiberium - The Scars Of War Remain (Unreleased Demo)

17.Derek & Clive - I Saw This Bloke

18.Spitting Blood - Behind The Machine

19.Pareidolia - Untitled Intro (Unreleased Demo)

20.HedMuffin - Trim It

21.Nocturnal Playground - Blood On Your Hands

22.Derek & Clive - You Stupid Cunt

23.King Lizard - Late Nite Dynamite

Running Time - 65.10

Format - Wma

Size - 45.3 mb

Bit Rate - 97.8 kbs

So here we are then, just over an hours musical fun n frolics for you to download and stick on your ipod/mp3/mobile phone, or just your computer.Enjoy and remember when you go to gigs buy the cd's from the band if they have them.

DOWNLOAD IT HERE : http://www.megaupload.com/?d=E0361UDX

STU

RAVENS CREED - Militia Of Blood Sacrifice (CD Review)

1.Panzer Maniac

2.Imperial Leather

3.Exploding The Steel

4.Dead Crow Mantle

Steve Watson (Iron Monkey) - Guitar

Jay Graham (Skyclad) - Drums

Ben Ward (Orange Goblin) - Vocals

James Kiely (GBH) - Guitar

Frazer Craske (Sabbat) - Bass

Four skull crushing tracks of pure fucking metal inspired by Venom and early thrash.From the opening track to the last its like venom jamming with ministry !The recordings dont quite match the ferocity of their live shows and this ep is just not enough, so hopefully a full album at some point and a live dvd,but go to the next gig and buy this limited edition cd,that way your neighbours will hate you forever when you crank it up!

Rating : 10/10

Get This If You Like : Venom.Discharge.Sabbat.

Contact : www.myspace.com/wwwmyspacecomravenscreed

STU

TURISAS,RAVENS CREED,WITCHSORROW - Barfly 20.08.08 (Gig Review)

Turisas
Ravens Creed
Witchsorrow

Barfly Camden 20.08.08

So the vile and repulsive emo/indie pop mag kerrang do a rare thing... Something Metal!
Arrive at 7 they said, so i did, then at 5 past 8 the first band take to the stage.
Witchsorrow are purveyers of Doom, slow, pounding chrords blast from the Gibson SG backed by powerfull bass and drumming.They ended thewir set with an amazing reworking of Mayhems 'Freezing Moon'.Why this band have no recordings to buy is something of a mystery to me.

Next up Ravens Creed fronted by Orange Goblins Ben ward and featuring Frazer Craske from Sabbat, Steve Watson from Iron Monkey and Jay graham from Skyclad.
The band dont so much play songs as attack them, a great mixture of punk/black metal/death metal with Ben pacing the stage and towering over the audience (Managing to scare off the only 2 kerrang readers at the front !).

Finally Turisas take to the stage, i guess they are the "Marmite" of metal at the moment, i have seen them seven times now and i like a nice thick layer of the black stuff.
This was possibly the best gig they have played,they entertain the crowd and have fun, something lacking in the emo world.
Of course everyones fave Vikings knock out the classics "One More" and after a lounge instrumentle telling everyone to grab a partner for the last dance, they launch into "Battle Metal", oh and of course "Rasputin".
One surprise in their set was a cover of 'Those Were The Days' the Paul McCartney penned song for folk singer Mary Hopkin which was on their original Heart Of Turisas demo a few years back.
All in all one of the best gigs i have been to in a long long time.

STU

Witchsorrow

Ravens Creed

Turisas