Band

Dead Raven Choir

Poland Split-up

Black Folk / Pagan / Viking

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About

Smolken was born in Kraków, Poland but moved to Texas, USA. He then returned to Poland. Additional discography: The Horny-Goloch Is an Awesome Beast/Soople and Scaly/It Has Twa' Horns and a Hantle O' Feet/And a Forky Tailie (1999, Save the Werewolves Foundation, 7 copies), Eaten by Wolves (2000, Save The Werewolves Foundation, 7 copies), The Dark Grows Blacker (2000, Save The Werewolves Foundation, 7 copies), Consider the Birds of the Air... (2001, Save the Werewolves Foundation, 7 copies), Jean Genet's Lonesome Rhino (2010, May 21st: Dot Dot Dot Releases, 300 copies on red and black 7" vinyl). Compilation appearances: Gold Leaf Branches - "We Will Not Whisper" (Digitalis Industries, 2005, 3 CD), Shadows Infinitum - "Sonja" (Crucial Blast, 2004, CD-R), City Songs XIII - "The Man Watching" (Requiem, 2004, CD-R), For the Dead in Space Vol. II-III - "Song About A Rose" (Secret Eye, 2003, 2CD), Heat and Birds - "Red Rocking Chair" (Jewelled Antler, 2003, CD-R - out of print), Cat Sun Kompilation - "O mój rozmarynie" (Cat Sun Release, 2003, CD-R - out of print), Hand/Eye - "We Will Not Whisper" (Hand/Eye, 2002, 2CD).

Discography

Lurking in the Shadows

Split · 2012

1 Dead Raven Choir - Crucified (Army of Lovers cover) 4:35
2 Josh Lay - Requiem (Army of Lovers cover) 4:36
3 Gnaw Their Tongues - Sexual Revolution (Army of Lovers cover) 4:52
4 Persistence in Mourning - Sebastien (Army of Lovers cover) 5:11
5 Wolfmangler - Carry My Urn to Ukraine (Army of Lovers cover) 6:29

Lonesome Drinking Metal

Full-length · 2010

1 Foslom Prison Blues 4:50
2 I Wish I Was Eighteen Again 5:13
3 Fallen Angel 5:01
4 The Green Leaves of Summer 4:08
5 The Long Black Veil 5:02
6 When the Tingle Becomes a Chill 3:39
7 Furnace Room Lullaby 4:27
8 Is Anybody Going to San Antone 5:38
9 Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town 9:40
10 Wine Colored Roses 4:36
11 Field Behind the Plow 4:56

Schmerzensgewalt

Full-length · 2010

1 Bird Song 3:57
2 Fuck Them All 4:21
3 Chihei-Sen 7:07
4 Hit and Run Lover 2:37
5 Der Döppelganger 4:20
6 The Partisan 3:51
7 Shoot Out the Lights 3:13
8 Sugar Daddy 5:01
9 Crucified 4:35
10 Mulheres de Atanas 4:37

My Firstborn Will Surely Be Blind

Full-length · 2007

1 Kigi wa Haru 5:08
2 Our Mother the Mountain 4:09
3 A Rosebud in June 4:35
4 Genesis Hall 5:00
5 Bluenose 3:43
6 Sheep-Crook, Black Dog 5:36
7 It's All Right with Me 1:45
8 The Trees They Grow So High 4:14
9 Favorite 4:52
10 From the Stars 5:08

Selenoclast Wolves

Full-length · 2006

1 The Silence 2:05
2 January 5:41
3 Die Raben 3:12
4 When Men Die 3:18
5 Irrlichter 6:56
6 I Am Not a Recluse 2:49
7 The Field Behind the Plow

Cask Strength Black Metal

Compilation · 2005

1 Sheath and Knife: The Broom Blooms Bonnie 3:01
1 Die 4:55
1 Sevenfold Song of Death 2:54
2 Hej sokoły: Ukraina 4:12
2 Die 3:57
2 Lots of Booze and Lots of Rambling in a Sea of Steam and Poison Light Bathe in Fiery Answers and Fill the Spinning Sky Guided by the Beauty of Our Weapons 0:35
3 Sawney Beane: A True Story 2:09
3 Die 2:57
3 First We Take Manhattan 6:08
4 The Young Girl Cut Down in Her Prime: Pills of White Mercury 5:12
4 Die 1:54
4 Stormfront 2:46
5 Sawney Beane 4:06
5 Die 4:07
5 Lungs 2:16
6 Kamień na kamieniu 0:37
6 Die 4:37
6 Waiting Around to Die 3:12
7 Czarne oczy 4:51
7 Die! 6:34
7 Highway Kind 5:19
8 Maryna 0:34
9 Złociste chryzantemy 2:34
10 Elijah: Bellowed 2:02
11 Siadła muszka 4:23

Fire Mouth

Full-length · 2005

1 The Librarian 5:31
2 Firefly 4:58
3 Angel Wings on Cilia 6:09
4 That Night the Blind Man Dreamt That He Was Blind 4:08
5 Shovels for Hands 3:01
6 A Moth Blending into Walls 5:04
7 Violence in Crayon 7:21

Death to Dead Wolves

Full-length · 2004

1 October Tragedy 2:56
2 Do Not Brood for Long 2:27
3 Red Sky at Morning 3:13
4 These Are the Ravens 2:20
5 Fog Days 6:58
6 A Canticle to the Waterbirds 23:24

Goating Shapelessnesses Theatrical Wolves

EP · 2004

1 War Has a Beauty of Its Own 2:50
2 A Ballade of Theatricals 5:00
3 Sonja 6:31
4 Moon over Castle Ruins 3:26

Rozrywa szwy ciszy

Collaboration · 2004

1 The Bellringer Will Come Forth - Wrinkled like Autumn Earth - And Pull the Long Legs of Hanged Men like a Rope 5:38
2 Under the Lost-in-Thought Grave of Clouds, over Leaves like Bloody Tears 6:38
3 Arks Carry the Heads of Decapitated Moons to the Other Shore 4:37
4 Wings Torn from Ravens Line the Streets Where the Dead Walk 8:18
5 Into Autumn I Flow Smaller with Every Step, into Fields Sown with Specters, into Columns of Dead Paeans 9:04

Sturmfuckinglieder

EP · 2004

1 Lots of Booze and Lots of Rambling in a Sea of Steam and Poison Light Bathe in Fiery Answers and Fill the Spinning Sky Guided by the Beauty of Our Weapons 0:35
2 First We Take Manhattan 6:08
3 Stormfront 2:46
4 Lungs 2:16
5 Waiting Around to Die 3:12
6 Highway Kind 5:19

A Tree Inside the Wolves

Full-length · 2003

1 Wilted 2:44
2 Before the Summer Rain 2:55
3 The Courtesan 5:52
4 The Lute 2:55
5 A Sibyl 6:18
6 The Pavilion 4:44
7 Comforting of Elijah 2:05
8 Gravestone of a Young Girl 2:32
9 Lunatics in the Garden ~ Dijon 5:04
10 The Lunatics 4:20

Dwelling in a Winter Goat Towards Northern Wolves

Full-length · 2003

1 The Dong with a Luminous Nose
2 Galgenberg
3 Lunovis
4 Der Rabe Ralf
5 Galgenbruders Frühlingslied
6 Das Hemmed
7 Der Schaukelstuhl auf der verlassenen Terrasse
8 Das Weiblein mit der Kunkel
9 Mondendinge
10 Die Fingur
11 Das Geburtslied oder: Die Zeichen oder: Sophie und kein Ende
12 Galgenkindes Wiegenlied + Attempt at an Introduction

Lesbian Corpse Wolves

Full-length · 2003

1 Funeral Monument of a Young Girl 3:54
2 Eranna to Sappho 1:43
3 Faded 4:29
4 Sappho to Eranna 1:04
5 A Prophet 2:20
6 The Courtesan 5:49
7 Corpse-Washing 2:15
8 A Sibyl 5:33
9 The Lunatics 4:12

Sevenfold Songs of Death

EP · 2003

1 Die 4:55
2 Die 3:57
3 Die 2:57
4 Die 1:54
5 Die 4:07
6 Die 4:37
7 Die! 6:34
8 Sevenfold Song of Death 2:54

Sleep Well, Red Wolves

Compilation · 2003

1 Cradle Song
2 The Alchemist
3 Spring Morning
4 A Robin
5 Two Gardens
6 The Forest
7 Owls Talking
8 The Great Black Crow
9 Night Song
10 The Jumblies
11 The Song of the Gallows Brotherhood
12 The Gallows
13 The Brownie

Their Feet Are the Foraging Ground of Wolves

EP · 2003

1 Night Scene 8:30
2 The Horn's Sound in the Wood 5:43
3 The Shepherd's Hour 6:47

Wine, Women and Wolves

Full-length · 2003

1 The Eyes of Beauty ~ A Palace Plundered by Wolves 3:38
2 The Kings of the World Are Growing Old.... ~ The Sick Crown 1:55
3 But Oh! Not Lovely Helen... ~ Doom 4:07
4 The Swan ~ O Water, When Wilt Thou Come in Rain? 2:15
5 The Island ~ Where the Slow Waves Thunder 2:35
6 Streets of Laredo ~ The Mercury Was Reeking 1:45
7 The Sadness of the Moon ~ A Furtive Teardrop 1:45
8 The Owls ~ Foreign Gods 3:55
9 February ~ The Sun Is Near the Hill-Tops 2:59
10 Beacons ~ Rubens, da Vinci, Rembrandt, Michaelangelo, Puget, Watteau, Goya, Delacroix 3:59
11 Christmas Meat ~ Carrion 3:27
12 The Charcoal Burner ~ In the Forest, Alone in the Forest 6:13
13 Piano Practice ~ Impatience for a Reality 3:52

Armoured Wolves

Full-length · 2002

1 November 3:19
2 Eheu! Fugaces 3:13
3 The Statue 1:53
4 Because My Faltering Feet May Fail... 3:42
5 The World's End 2:12
6 The Pavilion 4:41
7 French Vampire Carol 5:04
8 Triolet 2:03
9 The Elm 1:23
10 A Bivouac 3:28
11 December 4:16

Dead Raven Choir / Furisubi / Timothy the Revelator

Split · 2002

1 Dead Raven Choir - Solitude ~ Where I Go 2:08
2 Dead Raven Choir - The Deluge ~ Drained It like a Cup 2:51
3 Dead Raven Choir - The Dead Hero ~ Saints Should Bury Him 1:52
4 Dead Raven Choir - The Outlaw ~ The Hangman Waits 2:30
5 Dead Raven Choir - The Monster ~ The Dual Nature of Christ 2:29
6 Dead Raven Choir - The Castaway Musket ~ In the Rye 2:29
7 Dead Raven Choir - Having Grits Tonight ~ On a Swamp 1:23
8 Dead Raven Choir - Ecclesiastes ~ Vanity of Vanities 2:00
9 Dead Raven Choir - The Leader ~ Day-rise 3:42
10 Furisubi - For an Audience of One 15:28
11 Timothy the Revelator - Morning Wake (For Ladybug) 2:41
12 Timothy the Revelator - The Wind Shall Sing in Your Ears (Lagomorphic Blessing) 4:32
13 Timothy the Revelator - How the Earth Bleeds as the Stars Burn 2:54
14 Timothy the Revelator - Through the Fields, o'er the Hills, Under the Moon 10:08
15 Timothy the Revelator - William-with-the-Little-Flame 1:34

Grand Ravishing Extravaganza

EP · 2002

1 Sawney Bean 4:06
2 Kamień na kamieniu 0:37
3 Czarne oczy 4:51
4 Maryna 0:34
5 Złociste chryzantemy 2:34
6 Elijah ~ Bellowed 2:02
7 Siadła muszka 4:23

The Blood of Two Wolves

Full-length · 2002

1 On a Journey 4:39
2 Helian 6:45
3 The Song of the Recluse 3:43
4 Passion 4:17
5 Psalm I 5:50
6 The Thunderstorm 5:30
7 The Song of the Western World 3:21
8 Elis 4:28
9 Sevenfold Song of Death 3:00
10 Having Grits Tonight 2:16

...But Inside They Are Ravening Wolves

Full-length · 2001

1 Hound-Voice ~ Because We Love Bare Hills and Stunted Trees and Were the Last to Choose the Settled Ground 3:18
2 The Hosting of the Sidhe ~ Niamh Calling 1:43
3 The Black Tower ~ Stand We on Guard Oath-Bound 5:49
4 The Withering of the Boughs ~ Because the Roads Are Unending, and There Is No Place to My Mind 2:49
5 Oil and Blood ~ In Tombs 2:45
6 Water-Lilies ~ To the Ripples of the Water 4:06
7 Ballade of Unsuccessful Men ~ What Was Terrible and Free 3:32
8 Ha'nacker Mill ~ Wind and Thistle for Pipe and Dancers 3:58
9 Epitaph on the Politician Himself ~ I Wept 2:06
10 The Prophet Lost in the Hills at Evening ~ The Voids of Hell Expand Enormous All Around 3:18
11 The Rebel ~ High Justice in Her Armoury 2:39
12 Comforting of Elijah (Extra track on Polish edition)