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Artist
Raven Woods
12+ albums
black metalBlackened Death Metalmelodic black metaldeath metalturkish black metal
about
Raven Woods was founded by Ozan Yıldirim and Cihan Engin in 1998, Ankara-TR. The band, that chose the melodic black metal path in those years, published their first mcd “In Silent Agony” after agreeing terms with Zoo Sound Records. With this debut, Raven Woods played in many gigs and festivals, spreading their name by meeting the audience in every chance that they could find. Especially with their performance at RS Fest in 2003, the band got full marks from the Rock Hard Magazine, drawing the attention of metalheads from all over the country. Raven Woods continued their series of gigs while suffering from inevitable line-up changes. Only Cihan Engin and Ozan Yildirim were left from the mcd period. The band managed to establish a new line-up by replacing the old members with Cihan Akün (guitars) and Aybars Altay (vocals). Due to the great drummer shortage in Turkey, Ozan picked up the drumsticks for a while and they started working on their first full length album “And Emotions Are Spilled” -which was the beginning of a new era for the band - altogether. During this period, the band signed a deal for an album with Atlantis Music. Following this, «And Emotions Are Spilled…» was released in 2006. The album, which consists of 8 tracks, has both old-school and modern elements of black metal & death metal including doomy parts with both aggressive and emotional clean vocals, crushing guitars and acoustic ambient parts. Mercan Dede, worldwide famous Ney artist of Sufi music also ma
