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RAVEN Release Live Album ‘Screaming Murder Death From Above: Live In Aalborg’
January 18th, 2019

Newcastle, England-born heavy metal group Raven issued live album Screaming Murder Death From Above: Live In Aalborg on January 18th, 2019 through Steamhammer / SPV.

Screaming Murder Death From Above: Live In Aalborg consists of a performance recorded on November 27th, 2017 at Skråen i Nordkraft in Aalborg, Denmark.

Raven were not aware that the show was being recorded. “We were surprised of course, since nobody had informed us of this beforehand,” commented frontman John Gallagher. “We had a flash drive with the recording delivered to us and when we checked it, we realized that — barring some small technical problems — we had a truly magical live recording on our hands. It was a near perfect concert thanks to the great atmosphere inside the hall and our out of control attitude — since, you know, we weren’t aware the show was being recorded.”

John Gallagher favourably compares Screaming Murder Death From Above: Live In Aalborg against previous live efforts from Raven. “We have, of course, gotten better and better on a technical level over the years,” he reckoned. “Also, on Destroy All Monsters / Live In Japan (1996), you can clearly hear that I was wrestling with voice issues due to a bout of laryngitis. And if you compare Screaming Murder Death From Above: Live In Aalborg with Live In The Inferno from 1984, it almost seems as if we had taken sedatives back then,” he joked. “The Aalborg recording matches the energy which Raven is exuding 100 percent. It’s the best representation of us as a live band yet.”

The track listing is as follows:

01. ‘Destroy All Monsters’
02. ‘Hell Patrol’
03. ‘All For One’
04. ‘Hung, Drawn And Quartered’
05. ‘Rock Until You Drop’
06. ‘A.A.N.S.M.M.G.N.’
07. ‘Tank Treads (The Blood Runs Red)’
08. ‘Faster Than The Speed Of Light’
09. ‘On And On’
10. ‘Break The Chain’
11. ‘Crash Bang Wallop’

Raven’s line-up is as follows:

John Gallagher (vocals and bass)
Mark Gallagher (guitars)
Mike Heller (drums)

A live performance lyric video for the track ‘Hung, Drawn And Quartered’ can be viewed below.

Thirteenth studio record ExtermiNation was released in April 2015 via Steamhammer / SPV.