Amazingly enough, Raven are still out there making new music and playing live. I know there has been long gaps in between some of their record, but credit where is due.
This was album number six for them, which appeared in ’87. After their initial burst through the NWOBHM explosion in the early eighties and by the time they recorded this album, they were more popular in the US than back home in the UK. This album was even recorded in the US.
I think they were once described as “athletic thrash” and if you saw them live around this time you could see why, as they were one big swirling ball of energy. I really like this album as I think their songwriting reached its peek around this point.
Pick Your Window is my personal favourite track as it rips along at a gallop and it’s pure NWOBHM, except it’s supercharged. There are so many great tracks here: the title track just slays, as well as On The Wings Of An Angel which is old school thrash, and you can see how most of the early thrash bands cited them as an influence.
A very enjoyable and fun record.
9/10 from The Grooveman.
