Ravencult

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Ravencult
General information
origin Athens , Greece
Genre (s) Black metal , thrash metal
founding 2001
Current occupation
Stefano's "S." Fakatselis
John "J." Votsis
Kostas "K." Alatas
Aleksis "A." Papatheofanous
former members
Electric bass
 Costas
Drums
 Panayotis
singing
 Jim
Drums, electric bass
 Konstantinos Galimis
singing
 Linos "L."
Electric bass (live)
 Semjaza

Ravencult is a Greek black and thrash metal band from Athens that was founded in 2001.

history

The band was formed in 2001. In February 2002 the demo Despise The Blindfold was released , which is limited to 300 pieces, followed by another under the name Cosmis Chaos in 2003 . In July 2004 the EP Armageddon Rising , which consists of two songs, was released on the Greek label Aenaon Music , with a circulation of 500 copies. In 2007 her debut album was released under the name Temples of Torment , which was followed by the second called Morbid Blood in 2011 . During this period the band was also active live, so in June 2008 they held a small European tour together with Rotting Christ and Krisiun . In 2007 the band could be seen at the Inferno Metal Festival Norway . Since its inception, the band had performed in around 20 European countries. In 2012 there was a split release with Omega . Ravencult contributed the new song Deifier of Necromancy and the Hellhammer Cover Massacra . In the summer of 2015, the group signed a record deal with Metal Blade Records . In the same year appeared a split release with Thou Art Lord , for which the group contributed the song Into Depths . In 2016, the third album Force of Profanation was released via Metal Blade Records .

style

According to Wolf-Rüdiger Mühlmann from Rock Hard , Temples of Torment sounds “ Norwegian- frosty” and is based on the Immortal album Pure Holocaust . Especially the vocals of Linos sound like Abbath's and also some riffs sound like copied from songs like The Sun No Longer Rises . Otherwise he heard parallels to old Satyricon . In a later issue Jan Jaedike reviewed Morbid Blood and assigned the group to Black Metal. He summarized the music as "extremely unfriendly Scandinavian rubble with rock'n'roll vibe, groove , thrash edge and a fat production". The group ignores atmosphere and progressiveness and relies on tempo changes and fluctuates between blast and D-beat passages. The singing is guttural . Five years later, Mandy Malon reviewed Force of Profanation . You first heard the band on the split release Straight Down in Hell / Deifier of Necromancy . Since then the sound has evolved and it may even sound a little more mature. She summarized the style as a mixture of 1980s Thrash and 1990s Black Metal. An issue later, Malon was reminded of Aura Noir by Ravencult's music . In an interview with her, Stefanos Fakatselis stated that the band is mainly influenced by classic heavy metal as well as extreme death , black and thrash metal. The band's roots, however, would lie primarily in black metal. Stephan Möller from Metal.de also reviewed Force of Profanation . The album sounds cleaner, but the drums sound less dynamic and natural. Möller characterized the music as fast black metal with a thrash metal component. On the other hand, there are just as little slower passages as clear vocals. The album is suitable for fans of Urgehal and Tsjuder , but it is not that catchy and the stubborn approach is missing.

Discography

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Bio. metalblade.com, accessed December 26, 2017 .
  2. ↑ a b Biography. rockdetector.com, archived from the original on December 22, 2016 ; Retrieved December 26, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Anke Fischer, Gunnar Sauermann, Petra Schurer, Thorsten Zahn: Inferno Festival . Immortal Easter. In: Metal Hammer . June 2007, p. 88 ff .
  4. ↑ a b Mandy Malon: Ravencult . Force of Profanation. In: Rock Hard . No. 355 , December 2016, p. 118 .
  5. ↑ a b Mandy Malon: Ravencult . Maximize the morbid! In: Rock Hard . No. 356 , January 2017, p. 112 .
  6. ↑ Metal Blade Records signs Greek black metal act RAVENCULT! metalblade.com, accessed December 26, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Wolf-Rüdiger Mühlmann: Ravencult . Temples of Torment. In: Rock Hard . No. 244 , September 2007.
  8. ↑ Jan Jaedike: Ravencult . Morbid Blood. In: Rock Hard . No. 289 , June 2011.
  9. ^ Stephan Möller: Ravencult - Force Of Profanation. Metal.de , accessed on December 27, 2017 .