Swedish metal band Ravened has released a video for their new single ‘kill the masked pretender’.
Check out the music video below.
Even though the band members are between 20-25 years old, the music has been a big part of their lives for generations. Olle Liljegren (guitars, songwriter) is son to Simeon Liljegren (Modest Attraction, Audiovision), and nephew to Christian Liljegren (Narnia, Flames of Fire, The Waymaker, Audiovision, Divinefire, Golden Resurrection, etc.) and drummer Oliwer Svensson is son to Kent Svensson (Hellfueled).
Ravened from Jönköping, Sweden, is all about really tight modern metal merged with influences from the past. Bands like Pantera, Bloodbath, Lamb of God, and Metallica has inspired Ravened’s music.
Ravened delivers heavy riffs, well-written lyrics, and a hunger and passion like few other bands in their age. The band delivers energetic shows, comfortable dressed, but very engaged in the audience.
From first introduction-track ‘The Path’ and into ‘Foul Deeds’ to closing title track ‘From the Depths’, the band keeps the listener’s interest. The guys put their hearts and minds into songs like ‘Stridsugglan’, with its attitude, and the mighty ‘Personal Universe’, featuring a church cantor, playing a grand church organ.
The band was formed in 2018, and has just started their journey towards an exciting future. This is where it all starts!
Ravened‘s sophomore album The Relentless has been released 9 June 2023. Our review can be found here.
Lyrics: kill the masked pretender
It’s about time for an introduction
Colossal destruction
The nameless is a word in motion
Determination is his new-found obsession
Your fate made me redundant
I feel a sickness spread
Easy comes without glory
I’m your faceless culprit
The time has come to fulfill your purpose
The nameless will step forward
Kill the masked pretender
Won’t you bleed?
One contradiction may force your hand
Fall in line
Enslaved by your hand
No Life, defiled
Endure your own path
All we got is time but it’s pulling me backwards
Unwillingly for the purity
King me in the center of minefields
Before my bones break and the world shifts
Blindfolded, awakening
Kill the masked pretender
Won’t you bleed?
One contradiction may force your hand
Fall in line
Enslaved by your hand
No Life, defiled
Endure your own path
Bring me fury, fatal folly
Seal the misery, a crowd is for a king
Bring me fury
(I am)
Fatal folly
Seal the misery
(Inside) A crowd is for a king
We are what we’re told to be
The hypocrisy of the living
This world is beyond my reach
A submissive place of hope
We are what we are, you see
The hypocrisy is for the living
Undead, walk with me
I’m dead, follow me
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Video for kill the masked pretender
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