RavenThross

Germany

RavenThross is a dark folk rock project conjured in the shadow of the full moon — where most folk music looks back into a romantic past, RavenThross stares straight ahead, into the burning forests, the drowning coasts, and the marble halls where empires are still being sold. At its heart are two hooded figures: The Fiddler, whose weathered baritone tells the tale, and The Wraith, the haunting female voice that carries the grief of the dying world — a spectral presence woven through nearly every song. Around them gather fiddle, hurdy-gurdy, hammered dulcimer, bodhrán, and the crackle of an unseen fire. The music draws on dark folk, pagan folk, gothic Americana and Celtic traditions — somewhere between Wovenhand, Wardruna, Heilung and Nick Cave. But the themes are unmistakably of our time: climate grief, social injustice, the cost of greed. Two EPs, one wound. First the earth dies. Then the kingdoms fall. ```