Black Raven

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Black Raven
General information
origin Dusseldorf , Germany
Genre (s) Rock and roll
founding 1993
Website www.blackraven.de
Founding members
Vocals, guitar
 Julian Wiethoff
Vocals, guitar
 Zlatko Tudja (until 2001)
Drums
 Andy Tudja (until 2003)
bass
 Torsten Leyhausen (until 2015)
Current occupation
Julian Wiethoff
Bojan Lutz
Jens Feldhaus
former members
Drums
 Jan Ferres (2003-2007)
Drums
 Marcus Lazzari (2007-2011)
bass
 Torsten Leyhausen (1992-2014)

Black Raven is a German band from Düsseldorf . Their music is assigned to rock 'n' roll , more precisely to rockabilly or teddy boy rock'n'roll. The band's name is derived from the rock'n'roll bar of the same name in London , England , which existed in the 1970s .

history

Black Raven was founded in 1992 by Julian Wiethoff ( vocals , guitar ), Zlatko Tudja (vocals, guitar), Andy Tudja ( drums ) and Torsten Leyhausen ( bass ). The first appearance took place in March 1993 in Neuss.

Black Raven are considered the first internationally successful so-called revival rock'n'roll band from Germany. The first international appearances took place just two years after it was founded in 1994 in England, which can be seen as the motherland of the revival rock'n'roll movement of the late 70s and early 80s. These include appearances at the Teddy Boy Weekender in Great Yarmouth or the Blackpool Rock'n'Roll Weekender.

Black Raven performed as a backing band with Graham Fenton from Matchbox , Sandy Ford from the Flying Saucers and Freddie Fingers Lee .

Participation in the first Jägermeister rock league in 2004 - a competition in which 18 German bands competed against each other - should be seen as a national career highlight. Black Raven reached third place, from which an appearance at Rock am Ring 2005 alongside Iron Maiden , Green Day , REM , Mötley Crüe , Sonic Youth , The Hives , Slayer , Marilyn Manson , Mando Diao and Die Toten Hosen, also from Düsseldorf, among others resulted.

The band appears increasingly in other European countries, especially in Scandinavia. Black Raven has performed in 23 countries outside of Germany, including Japan, Russia and the USA.

Discography

  • 1994: Rock'n'Roll (EP)
  • 1995: Raven's Break Up (LP)
  • 1998: Fool's Paradise (EP)
  • 2001: No Way to Stop Me - I'm on Rock'n'Roll (LP / CD)
  • 2004: She's a Rocket (EP)
  • 2008: Rock in Threes! (LP / CD)
  • 2018: Rockbox Revival (LP)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cduniverse.com
  2. ↑ regioactive.de ( Memento of the original from August 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.regioactive.de
  3. ↑ rock-am-ring.com
  4. ↑ blackraven.de ( Memento of the original from August 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.blackraven.de
  5. ↑ https://www.discogs.com/de/artist/2057701-Black-Raven-2