The Raven Age announce new album ‘Exile’

July 25, 2021 James Weaver

THE RAVEN AGE have announced a new album!

Titled Exile, the upcoming album from the British metal band features a curated selection of songs featuring 11 tracks including two new original songs, plus fan favourites from their 2019 release Conspiracy as well as hand-picked live tracks from tours in Chile, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States. The new album is scheduled to be released in September this year, via EX1 Records.

“The concept for Exile is something we had been toying with for a while,” says vocalist Matt James about the upcoming new album. “We had done alternate acoustic style versions of songs before and the response was so positive it made us think about doing a whole album this way! Obviously, THE RAVEN AGE is first and foremost a metal band but due to the melodic nature of our songs they can lend themselves to this kind of treatment. We were pleasantly surprised how great so many of the songs sounded stripped back to their bare bones. Each reimagined song has now taken on a new life of its own and gives the listener a completely different perspective from them. The two new tracks Wait For Me and No Man’s Land were a homage to this project’s concept and we hope it shows people the band’s versatility and different dimensions. Exile is a passion project for our fans in between albums and with the current climate of the planet, it gave us the perfect excuse to roll with it!”

Alongside the announcement of the new album, the band have released a new song from the upcoming album; No Man’s Land. Speaking about the new song, guitarist George Harris says, “No Man’s Land is a song reflective of the mental state I was in when everything hit at the start of 2020. The band had a huge couple of years touring wise and had built up so much momentum, the morale in the camp was higher than ever before. Our last gig of 2019 was at the London O2 Arena alongside ALTER BRIDGE and SHINEDOWN, so to go from those heights to nothing was devastating for us. We’re at the stage in our careers where we rely on that momentum and buzz to keep us reaching forward, and to have the rug pulled from underneath us left us in a state of limbo where we suddenly didn’t know if everything we’d built so far and worked so hard for was all for nothing.”

Watch the official lyric video for No Man’s Land here: