Unkindness Of Ravens

Formed in June of 2015, Unkindness Of Ravens create a style of music that is melancholic and dramatic.

BACKGROUND
Originally performing live as a motorcycle influenced rock group which began in December 2013, the band widened their sound when Danielle Egan (keys/synths) joined founding members Darren Keegan (guitar/vocals), Daryl Hogan (drums) and Shane Fitzgerald (guitar).

Fitzgerald departed the group soon after and the remaining trio pushed the band through complete remake, emerging with over an hour of recorded material in the winter of 2015 which became the first album 'Under Stolen Skies.'

The album was recorded in a 200 year-old house at the foot of the Slieve Bloom Mountains in Ireland by the band, with Hogan, a qualified record engineer, overseeing the recording.

Soon later the band teamed up with Dura Gesta Records, a subsidiary of Domestic Genocide Records, based in Michigan in the United States.

This early trans-Atlantic relationship saw Dura Gesta Records release Unkindness Of Ravens first album, ‘Under Stolen Skies’ in November 2015.

A video for the song ‘Leanan Sídhe’ was also released, which was filmed and produced by the band, featuring dramatic footage captured with drones of the karst landscape of the Burren, their home in the Slieve Bloom Mountains and saw the band visit the Pollnagollum Caves, which inspired J.R.R. Tolkien to create the character Gollum in the Lord of the Rings.

The video became a showcase for the band’s style and aesthetic; with down-tuned string arrangements as a backdrop to organ and distorted violin, vocal harmonies and reverb drenched distorted guitars.

In 2016 the band took to the road and expanded the lineup to include Philly Brett on bass and the return of Shane Fitzgerald on guitar. In 2016 the band played at the Siege Of Limerick Festival and visited Ukraine to perform at the Electric Meadow Festival near Lviv in western Ukraine.

February 2017 saw the band release their second album, the double album 'The Perfect Dark,' which was accompanied by a video for the album's first single 'The Wolf and the Hound' and recorded in the same old house in rural Ireland.

The video was filmed by the band in Leap Castle and the infamously haunted Bloody Chapel, a site known worldwide for its dark history and reputation for paranormal activity.

For more information on the band and for videos, music and contact details, visit Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and all the popular music streaming platforms.

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/64qmcZsJmi8KPNzpFAnLpG

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUHvLzhBaVE

iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/ie/album/under-stolen-skies/id1058403145

Deezer: http://www.deezer.com/album/11676446