LIVE @ WHITE TRASH - BERLIN - MAY 25

Saturday 25th May - we play White Trash, Berlin - Pale Music triple record release party for us, Nikaya, and the Fleischdolls. Would be great to see you there.

https://www.facebook.com/events/369597556478479/

LIVE DATES

Italy, we come to you:

08-05-13 - Fanfulla, Roma - IT

09-05-13 - Off Officine Sonore, Lamézia - IT

10-05-13 - Blue Dahlia, Marina di Gioiosa RC - IT

11-05-13 - Riviera Rock, Agropoli SA - IT

12-05-13 - Zuni, Ferrara - IT

25-05-13 - White Trash, Berlin - DE

12-07-13 - Hoxton Underbelly, London - UK

13-07-13 - Club Reptile @ The Minories, London - UK

See you on the way.

PALE MUSIC

We are proud to announce that our album Virus is now available on CD and digital through legendary Berlin label/ distributor/ publisher Pale Music International:
http://pale-music.com/2010/?q=content%2Fpale-d-066

RED SUN OUT NOW

RED SUN - a 7 track collection of singles, B-sides, and EP tracks from 2009-2010 - is out now. Available as a name your price download from our Bandcamp:

http://theunkindnessofravens.bandcamp.com/album/red-sun

Also available on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/album/red-sun/id597921334 and from all good digital distributors. Thx for listening. Play it loud.

Reviews/ features: Artrocker (5 stars) Wicked Spins The VPME Bluesbunny Alteria Motives

VIDEO REDUX

We have remastered the audio and video to two of our videos - Dead Air and I Used To Be So Pretty - so they now feature the new versions of the tracks which appear on the Red Sun EP [out 01-Feb]. You can check them here:

LIVE DATES

We hope you can join us.

18-01-13 - Antje Öklesund, Berlin
22-02-13 - Urban Spree, Berlin
07-03-13 - Elect Room @ Arch 635, London
09-03-13 - Unicorn Camden, London
22-03-13 - 333 Mother, London
25-05-13 - White Trash, Berlin

RED SUN EP

OUT FEB-01-2013 - The Red Sun EP - a 7 track collection of singles, B-sides, and EP tracks from the last three years. Tracklisting:

1. Circle
2. Lift
3. Till I Get Home
4. Dead Air
5. I Used To Be So Pretty
6. Red Sun
7. Accelerator

VIRUS - Album release reviews & features

'The Spaces In Between' video on NME.com

"Dangerous and cinematic" -Artrocker Magazine review, 5/5

"Nina is both aurally and visually stunning, providing a captivating focal point for this most interesting of bands" -Rock Sound Magazine review, 7/10

"A relentless sonic assault of ear shredding brilliance" -VPME review and interview, 8.5/10

"One can imagine TUOR laying waste to an intimate club venue as well as turning heads at a festival" -Louder Than War review

Bass Player Magazine review, 4/5

Artrocker - track by track guide by Nina

"A formidable debut attempt" -GoldFlakePaint review

Zitty magazine Berlin review, 3/4

Slam magazine review (Germany), 7/10

Legacy magazine review (Germany), 12/13

ContactMusic - feature and video stream

Blues Bunny review, 4/5

Albumcheck review, 7/10 (Germany)

KaltBlut feature (Germany)

Westzeit magazine review (Germany)

Volume magazine review (Germany)

Smash Mag review (Germany)

Port01 magazine review (Germany)

POP! Stereo review

NEW ALBUM 'VIRUS' OUT NOW

Our debut album VIRUS is out now. You can get it here:

iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/virus/id592132572

Amazon: http://amzn.com/B00B5KWV9M

Bandcamp: http://theunkindnessofravens.bandcamp.com/album/virus

Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/album/5uOBADPCeMBikGpqnsRLep

The Spaces In Between

It's been a while since we've last updated, the move to Berlin has taken over some of our virtual world time. But we're pretty much all settled in now, turning the spaces we live in into arty corners. At the moment we are finishing the touches to our next music video, The Spaces in Between. It looks like this:

Last Call For the River

NEW SINGLE - LAST CALL FOR THE RIVER - FEATURING ON This is Fake DIY - ALBUM 'VIRUS' RELEASED MAY 2012

http://www.thisisfakediy.co.uk/articles/news/the-unkindness-of-ravens-release-new-track

JOIN OUR FAN PAGE:

http://www.facebook.com/theunkindnessofravens

LIVE @ O2 Arena

This was us @ the O2 Arena free stage, London, 8 December before Brian Adams hit the main stage.

VK Test

Ben and Nina interview each other one week after the release of their single VIRUS / VIPER

YOUR FAVOURITE:

RECORD

N: I don't have one.
B: Dirty - Sonic Youth - I don't care if it's their most commercial sounding

BAR

N: 8mm
B: 8mm, Berlin - like Catch in Shoreditch was in it's heyday

CIGARETTES

N: Players
B: Golden Virginia, licorice skins

SECRET WEAPON

N: M41A Pulse Rifle - from Alien
B: Electro-Harmonix

TELL ME ABOUT:

SEX

N: Violent
B: My inspiration

THE FUTURE

N: Dead
B: Things no longer have the value they deserve

FASHION

N: Black
B: Boots, tight jeans, killer leather jacket

BERLIN

N: Teeth
B: It gives me what I want

WHAT DO YOU:

HATE

N: Dictators
B: Society

LOVE

N: Mushy red cesspit covered in artificial sweeteners
B: Art that strives to be beautiful

NEED

N: Leather biker boots
B: The night

KNOW

N: Money kills
B: Hey Jude

YOUR BAND:

LIVE

N: Animal
B: The reason I exist

THE ALBUM

N: Deadly machine love
B: Last Call For The River

VIPER VIDEO

N: Sex
B: The moment we distilled ourselves on film

UNPLUGGED

N: Human
B: We'll be putting out an acoustic EP shortly after the album

AA single VIRUS / VIPER out now on Sonic Fire Records

http://theunkindnessofravens.bandcamp.com/album/virus-viper-aa-side-single

VIRUS video on NME.COM

We are proud to announce that VIRUS is currently being showcased on NME.COM! We would love it if you could vote for it and comment after it. Your support is golden.

http://www.nmevideo.com/the-unkindness-of-ravens-virus

Our latest double A side single VIRUS / VIPER is out now! VIRUS is the title track from our forthcoming debut LP. We recorded both tracks in our apartment in Berlin in January. You can get the tracks on iTunes or Bandcamp - the latter is cheaper and you can take a free download of the VIRUS - Ventenner remix while you're there. Please also check out the video to VIRUS - it's fighting it's way around the Contactmusic.com video chart right now and last night overtook Beyonce and Avril Lavigne for a while. That aside we've been enjoying regular radio play over at Amazing Radio and various internet stations while burning the oil finishing this album of ours. Here are some articles and interviews that have surfaced lately:

http://www.aaamusic.co.uk/2011/09/25/meet-the-unkindness-of-ravens-your-new-favourite-band/

http://www.artrocker.tv/tv/article/the-unkindness-of-ravens-virus

http://www.feveravenue.com/monday-music-musings-the-unkindness-of-ravens/

http://www.abadgeoffriendship.com/blog/entry/interview-the-unkindness-of-ravens

http://sourmashmusic.com/2011/09/20/the-sourmash-top-10-200911/

Thx for listening. Your support is gold. X

Bikini Kill

Stills from next music video VIPER

French Connection

Guess what?

We have VIRUS on a French Connection video promo! Shot by talented Kelly Wolverella Mitchell!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spHfE01kw5k&feature=player_embedded

In Berlin for two months playing shows, editing our music video for VIRUS and working on our forthcoming double A single - VIRUS & VIPER.

Stay tuned for more fancy information!

In the Dark I am your Light

In the dark
I am your light
from my fingertips
to your heart.

Days are running away and in less than a week we are to be in Berlin playing a few shows, editing our music video and over all soaking up Berlins atmosphere, to further fuel our empty tanks of inspiration.

We are romantic beings, living our lives out of a movie, but with eyes open. We are no fools in this world of fun and glamor and deception. The veils of satisfaction wrap their silky scarves around our flesh, tempting our souls to better things.

We grow only when we learn. And a lot of learning has been done.

Soon the days in London will draw to a close and the future days of Berlin will open.

I can't tell you
how much I love you,
to spare the words
their almost soulless meaning
as truth is in my heart
and in my eyes,
I look upon you
and without any
speech shared
you know exactly
what I mean.

I am the Dust, I Care so Much

On Monday we had our video shoot for VIRUS the title track of our first forthcoming album. We were blessed with exquisite dancers, make up and hair artists, the best director of photography in London and a studio space that provided the perfect atmosphere to make our visions come true.

The Raven's team is growing with people from all over London and even the world who have talent and ambition, a nurturing soul and who love to be part of great projects.

It's made us become more aware, that what begins as a seed in your mind can grow, if you allow it to, into something greater than you would have ever expected with the right people involved. But to get there, two main ingredients are needed - imagination and common sense.

As artists one is always graduating from one project to the next, gracefully moving on upward. Before you know it, you'll look back and think - MAN I did ALL of THAT?!

Yup. Because you cared so much and did whatever it took to get there, with a little bit of thought and a hell lot of passion.

Yea - we are a small band and a smaller label. But it's not about the short cut on how to get to your goal, it's the journey, the length of its path, the obstacles you gotta find ways to overcome, the love you share along the way and the hunger that never ceases to stop.

Creation began with God (or so I'm told by religious fanatics, God's just a symbol in this blog, we ain't religious by traditional standards) and now WE are the creators and masters of our own universes. Real conquerors began small, convincing people one by one of their beliefs, until they had an army of believers behind them, who fought tooth and nail for their leader. Those who became leaders always started with one pure thought; that thing they believed in most and never gave up on until somehow others believed in them also. Real artists who begin small, last forever, because once you plant a seed, it can only ever grow on, forever.

Thank you for being part of our music, our videos, our photo shoots, our press and our supporters.

Without any of you, we would merely be two people making noise without an audience.

Peace!

Bleed from Within

"... strip me from (beastly) bear (animal) skin, I have waited for so long, strip me from my breaths of death, I curdle you from within... " - N.W.

What can I say, but holy fuck it's real. That's right. The life we breath right now in this moment is realer than the skinny ass from some headless chicken waiting to be fried into a nugget and later chowed down by some fat freak who doesn't think any further than his own beluga blubbering flesh of existence... Oh wait, that's pretty real as well.

Lets count the ways shall we? The Unkindness of Ravens are a two piece electro rock band formerly formed in London. One dude's English and drop dead handsome, the other is a chick from somewhere in Europe who can speak a coupla languages and can't decide wether to be brunette or blond. Either way, these two sexy beasts are horny for music, girls and playing live shows. They want to do nothing more than to be creative every single day, for the rest of their lives, playing music, selling music, having sex with music and surrounding themselves with like minded people so that together, with this little growing empire, they can create the tsunami, stone cold kids have been waiting for.

We all like the thought of being saved either by Prince Charming, health insurance, a steady job whatever... As we grow older and the cynism grows like warts on the end of a junkies nose, we come to realize that really, we are all alone and we gotta fend and "save" ourselves - or else I'd like to think Jesus would have returned a long fucking time ago to "save us"...

That's the thing about Jesus, if there's anything we can learn from him - he literally sacrificed his life for what he believed in. He believed so hard, he got the ax, because he showed the world a different way, he actually had the balls of steel to say "yo fuckers, there are other ways to live your petty life, do it, don't be afraid, and stop being sheep!".

Yea - I don't wanna be hung for my beliefs and Ravens ain't interested in changing the world, but what we ARE interested in is NOT to be afraid, be confident and comfortable in who we are, loyal to our principles and not get bullied into anything we don't want to do.

It's a longer, less taken path in what we do and there's no rule book to guide us but the loins of our instincts (and vice versa).

We aim to set an example that anything's fucking possible.

And we hope you live your life by that motto as well!

Peace!