Dead Raven Choir

Dead Raven Choir began as a Polish folk/black metal duo formed in 1996 in Kraków by Piotr Klima (using the name D. Smolken) and an un-named woman. The idea was to play virulent black metal with lyrics taken from "Winnie-the-Pooh". Fortunately this resulted in only one half-finished song before the mysterious woman disappeared. In 1998 Smolken and another mysterious woman set more A.A. Milne poems to quieter, more restrained music. DEAD RAVEN CHOIR evolved from that point, growing increasingly more raw and dramatic.