Label: Music For Nations / Sony Music UK

FFO: Bullet For My Valentine, Avenged Sevenfold, Killswitch Engage

• Over 75m worldwide streams and a top 35 single in the Billboard US Charts
• Global touring plot including headline shows, international festivals including Hellfest, Rock in Rio, Wacken and others, and supporting the likes of Killswitch Engage, Anthrax and Ghost
• Supporting Iron Maiden across their 2023 UK & European arena run
• Following a mainstage Download appearance the band will perform at major EU festivals like Rock Am Ring, Graspop and Metal Days

SUMMARY

Having established their name as one of the finest in modern British metal, thanks to two brilliant albums, 2019sConspiracyandDarkness Will Risedebut in 2017, The Raven Age have garnered over 75 million streams worldwide and have toured heavily across the globe with the likes of Killswitch Engage, Anthrax and Tremonti. On February 14th,The Raven Agewill announce their highly anticipated third albumBlood Omen. Out July 7th, it is their first record withMusic For Nations/Sony Music.

Blood Omenpushes everything further than ever before. The choruses are made for arenas, the riffs are taut, direct, and free of fat. It all makes for a grand musical stage on which the records concept plays out. Forgive & Forget rushes in on a scalding lead guitar riff, while the epic Nostradamus is a tale of the great prophet. The heavy, raging Serpents Tongue, meanwhile, deals withdeceit, and never knowing if youre being told the truth,according to George.

This motivation is written into the albums concept. Following the theme of its two predecessors, the raven motif looms large, this time centering on the overthrowing of old masters, with the bands Raven King character coming to prominence. Even in the artwork, things are bolder, a close up of The Raven King, says George,taking his rightful place on the throne.

To capture all this on record, the band enlisted the help of long-term producer Matt Hyde (Slipknot, Machine Head, Bullet For My Valentine) to lay down the albums framework, before setting to recording the rest of the album themselves. The final mastering was put into the treasured hands of Mika Jussila at Finnvox (Nightwish, Children of Bodom, HIM).

Blood Omenis a record of several firsts for The Raven Age. With the metal end of the operation firmly nailed down, this time around the band were finally able to realise their ambitions of using real strings. Working with noted British cellist arranger Audrey Riley (Foo Fighters, Muse, Coldplay) at the ICMP [Institute of Contemporary Music Performance] studios in London.Watching a quartet play along to our songs was a whole new experience,says George.They just made everything more dramatic.

Blood Omenis a strong, focussed, and ambitious work from one of the most rapidly rising rock bands in Britain and live they solidify this status. They have performed over 400 shows internationally across 38 countries including major festival performances such as the main stage at Download Festival, Rock in Rio, Wacken, Hellfest and many more, as well as touring with the likes of Killswitch Engage, Volbeat, Shinedown and Alter Bridge.

This summer they will be touring arenas across Europe and the UK with Iron Maiden, including Londons O2 Arena on July 8th. They have also been announced to perform at a number of major European festivals this summer including Germanys Rock am Ring, Belgiums Graspop Metal Meeting, Return Of The Gods Festival in Italy as well as Metal Days in Slovenia.