New Wave of British Heavy Metal stalwarts RAVEN are ready to deliver another electric mayhem with their upcoming new album “All Hell’s Breaking Loose“, their 15th studio LP, set for release June 30th. The Newcastle pioneers, formed by the Gallagher brothers (bassist/vocalist John and guitarist Mark) and rounded out by drummer Mike Heller have emerged from Heller’s own ‘Heaven And Heller Studios’ in Los Angeles with 10 crisp, visceral metal classics, each fused with riffs, twists, turns, chaos and more hooks than all the Hellraiser movies combined.
Among the stand-outs are lead single “Go For The Gold” with the redline pushed hard by a cavalcade of riffs and furious, percussive madness, yet behind it all a melodic journey that makes it multi-dimensional skull-crushing; 100% full on Raven lunacy.
Title track “All Hell’s Breaking Loose” twists and turns with accents and flavours buried inside the metal assault. Meanwhile “Surf The Tsunami” sees Heller gatecrash your eardrums with a furious flurry of his own, before some crazy twister riffs bring on the full metal chaos.
“Turn Of The Screw” bounces on the upbeats before smashing you with a thunderous chorus. “The Far Side” has as classic a metal riff as you’ll hear in 2023. “Desperate Measures” is pure ’81-saturated tales of hardship and despair, if you ever wondered what Raven at the Marquee were like on a sweaty metal night in ’83.
Then “Edge of A Nightmare” is your portal to paradise, thundering as hard as the opener “Medieval”.
What Raven have delivered with ”All Hell’s Breaking Loose” is permission for everyone to remember exactly what it’s like to lose yourself in the healing aural waters of true heavy metal music, resplendent in sweat-soaked denim and leather.
“We’re very hard on ourselves,” says John, “it had to be ‘all killer, no filler’. Absolutely every single part of every song had to make sense, had to mean something, and had to be there for a purpose.”
And ”All Hell’s Breaking Loose” makes it clear that Raven aren’t messing around in that regard.
Highly Recommended
1. Medieval
2. Surf The Tsunami
3. Turn Of The Screw
4. All Hell's Breaking Loose
5. The Far Side
6. Desperate Measures
7. Victory's Call
8. Edge Of A Nightmare
9. Invasion
10. Go For The Gold
Raven – All Hell’s Breaking Loose 2023, MP3+FLAC
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