Origin Tipperary, Ireland | Years active 2014 - present | |
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Genres Doom Metal, Post Rock, Gothic Rock, Neofolk Labels Dura Gesta Records - Domestic Genocide Records Website www.domesticgenociderecords.com Members Darren Keegan
Daryl Hogan
Danielle Egan
Shane Fitzgerald
Philly Brett | ||
Unkindness Of Ravens is an Irish gothic rock/metal band formed in 2014 in Tipperary, Ireland. Their debut album Under Stolen Skies was released in November 2015 on Domestic Genocide Records [] based in Michigan in the United States. The band's first single Leanan Sídhe was released simultaneously with an accompanying video which explored themes around ancient Irish mythological characters and was filmed in The Burren and Slieve Bloom Mountains. The band is fronted by Darren Keegan and the band's style has been described as "melancholic and dramatic." The band was created by Keegan with drummer Daryl Hogan and keyboardist Danielle Egan. In early 2016 the band lineup grew to include Shane Fitzgerald on guitar and Philly Brett on bass guitar. All the members of the band come from County Tipperary in the Irish midlands.
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In 2015 the band featured on national broadcaster RTÉ Lyric FM's show Nova, presented by Bernard Clarke and discussed experimental methods of making music adopted for the album, including removing the chimes from a grandfather clock to be played as a musical instrument and salvaging an old, almost rotten piano from a derelict barn in the Irish countryside []. In early 2016 the group opened for Esoteric (band) at the bi-annual Siege Of Limerick Festival in Dolans and have performed at the Electric Meadow Festival in Lviv, Ukraine.
In February 2017 the band released their second studio album,The Perfect Dark - a 100-minute long double album on Domestic Genocide Records. The release of the album was accompanied by a video for the first single The Wolf and the Hound which was filmed in the world famous Leap Castle and its Bloody Chapel.
Style
Unkindness Of Ravens style has been described as a "dark form of independently minded, slightly gothic-rock". The band have cited Chelsea Wolfe, Trees Of Eternity, Blood Ceremony, Thin Lizzy, Godspeed You! Black Emperor , Sopor Æternus & the Ensemble of Shadows and Sunn 0))) as major influences.