{"id":61,"date":"2024-11-14T05:44:10","date_gmt":"2024-11-14T05:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metalhed.com\/?p=61"},"modified":"2025-05-12T05:30:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T05:30:15","slug":"raven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metalhed.com\/?p=61","title":{"rendered":"RAVEN"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The next cab off the rank is British heavy metal band Raven. Formed in 1974 in Newcastle a few years after both Sabbath and Priest. Raven hit the ground running playing a few shows and developing their image sound etc. Scene wise, by now we had the bigger hard rock bands Zep, Purple etc ruling the world which was definitely providing a gateway drug effect for those getting into world of heavy metal. Sabbath were kickin&#8217; ass on big tours and moving large units and Priest were playing shows and about to put out their first album)<\/i> and the newly formed Raven starting to gig.<\/p>\n\n<p>Again as is so often the case the spoils of victory are reserved for those who released albums first. I believe Raven could have been a lot bigger if they got an album out earlier than they did. When the album finally did come out in 1981 we already had bands who&#8217;d formed after Raven but released albums like Motorhead, Angelwitch, Def Leppard etc&#8230;. but many of them sounded far more accessible to the popular hard rock taste than Raven did. Some of those bands even charting and as a result more or less defining what Heavy Metal was.<\/p>\n\n<p>This is not to say Raven aren&#8217;t good. They are quite good at what they do <I>(I quite like them too)<\/i>. Their first album was picked up and released by the label neat records and they managed to acheive some lower level charting with a spot in the 60&#8217;s on the UK charts. <\/p>\n\n<table>\n<td><a href=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/metalhed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Raven-Rock-til-you-Drop-Small.jpg\"><\/a><\/td>\n<td>For a more detailed review of <b>Ravens<\/b> first album &#8220;Rock until you drop&#8221;, Click <a href=\"\">HERE<\/a><\/td>\n<\/table>\n\n<p>Anyway I&#8217;ve included the album streaming from Youtube below for you guys to listen to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Raven went on to release a whole bunch of quite well received albums but the sales never really materialised for the band.<\/p>\n\n<p>To this day they&#8217;re probably more well known for the fact they took a very young Metallica on the road for the first time when they toured America. Which is kind of a shame really.<\/p>\n\n<p>The band are still playing to this day to the more well versed Metalheds in the scene which again still warms my heart.<\/p>\n\n<p>For more great articles be sure to keep reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metalhed.com\">Metalhed.com<\/a> as often as you can!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next cab off the rank is British heavy metal band Raven. Formed in 1974 in Newcastle a few years after both Sabbath and Priest. 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