Red Raven – Chapter One: The Principles

Releasedate: 10-10-2014; Label: Sonic Revolution
By: Sabine van Gameren

The German formation Red Raven is a relatively young band. Founded in 2011 they started working on a debut album, which took them three years to release. It is now ready to be presented to the world, “Chapter One: The Principles” is out now.

The band plays Metal according their facebook page. The infosheet speaks of Hard Rock and what it is in reality is probably somewhere in between. Reading their own pages the band seem to be around much longer than we are told and perhaps we should not take the rest of the info sheet too serious either then.
What we can expect of this album is a beginning, but a beginning of what. Do they have a trilogy planned, or perhaps more? Or are they just leaving their options open for future. Hard to say.
For now we are presented a bunch of songs that are well thought. Strong melodies, sometimes catchy and sometimes quite powerful.
A ballad is included, tick it of the list and soon you come to the conclusion that the album is quite complete. Yes, the band has presented themselves well. Perhaps a little remark to make is that they could work on expressing their own identity a bit more but this very first chapter is surely a fine one.

Line up:
Frank Beck – Vocals
Patrick Fey – Guitars
Martin Reichhart – Bass
Sascha Waack – Drums

Tracklist: 01. Too Late 02. Planet Fear 03. Silent World of Mine 04. Foolsland 05. Famous 06. Far Away From me 07. If You Don’t Know 08. Walls Around My Chair 09. Another Little While 10. I Don’t Care 11. Everyday 12. Angel of Your Life

Links:
Red Raven Facebook