In July 2022, Raven announced that they had signed to Silver Lining Music and released their fifteenth studio album, All Hell’s Breaking Loose in 2023. The band played at Milwaukee Metal Fest in May of that year.
Raven released their fourteenth studio album, Metal City, on 18 September 2020. It marked their first studio album in five years, and their first to feature Mike Heller on drums.
In May 2017, Joe Hasselvander suffered a heart attack two days before a string of US/European dates. In order to fulfill these obligations, the Gallagher brothers had a number of drummers to assist. Jimmy Mess did the Chicago show, Mike Heller ( Fear Factory , Malignancy ) performed on three…
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ExtermiNation was released in late April 2015 and consists of 14 songs plus the bonus track “Malice in Geordieland” (sung entirely in the Newcastle “Geordie” accent). It was released worldwide via SPV, except in Japan via Spiritual Beast and in South America via Die Hard. The album garnered both favorable…
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As with the Walk Through Fire album, ExtermiNation was recorded at Assembly Line Studios in Vienna, Virginia with Kevin “131” Guitierrez engineering and the band producing. Recording took place in August 2014 with a short break as the band played special guest on three shows by German band Accept in…
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In January 2014, the band were featured on the 70000 Tons of Metal cruise from Miami to Mexico and played in South America in March. Metallica invited the band to open for them at a football stadium in São Paulo, Brazil in March 2014 in front of almost 70,000 fans.…
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In 2013, a retrospective DVD was released, entitled Rock Until You Drop – A Long Day’s Journey , featuring never before seen footage of the band from 1982 onward, interviews with musicians including; Lars Ulrich , Dee Snider , Dave Ellefson , Chuck Billy , Jon Zazula, and Chris Jericho…
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Following a number of United States shows and European festival appearances ( Bloodstock Open Air in the UK in 2005, Keep it True in Germany in 2005, Bang Your Head!!! in Germany in 2006) the band started work on the new album Walk Through Fire , initially released in Japan…
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The band recorded and toured until 2001, when a wall collapsed on guitarist Mark Gallagher, crushing his legs. Raven went on hiatus for nearly four years, from 2001 to 2004, while the guitarist rehabilitated. A number of shows were played in 2004 with Mark in the North East of the…
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1999 promised a Raven box set with the New York label Spitfire Records . However, after a “lack of communication” John took the extra live/studio/bootleg tracks and working with engineer S.A. Adams compiled a collection entitled Raw Tracks , featuring unreleased material from 1984 to the present. The band also…
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