The Band

After more than 30 years of medieval music, they can look back on countless albums and the most diverse projects. With their mystical and legendary albums like “Mille Anni Passi Sunt” they brought ancient gods and legends to life, with albums like “Gimlie” and “Sverker” they worked up Celtic and Nordic traditions and brought the culture of the Vikings into the modern present. Anyone who has seen the masks and costumes of the more recent shows must admit that they successfully reimagined the Vikings.
This creative preservation of cultural heritage inspires people all over the world. No less a figure than Hollywood composer Hans Zimmer (“Gladiator”, “Pirates of the Caribbean”) recruited the kings of the minstrels to compose music for “Ironclad” for this very reason. Their bagpipes and drums can be heard in the BBC documentary “The Crusaders”, presented by Monty Python legend Terry Jones, as well as in the computer game “Dragon Age”. Finally, even the producers of the most successful TV series of all time “Game of Thrones” were so impressed that they invited the band to play live on the set of the series during filming.
Besides the main band activities, Corvus Corax realised several special projects: With a lot of heart and soul they created their settings of individual texts from the Carmina Burana – the most famous medieval song manuscript. “Cantus Buranus” combines film music with historical instruments, orchestral instrumentation and epic chorales. In addition, they realised a special Corvus Corax show together with the well-known taiko drummers of “Wadokyo”. Another German highlight was the live performance of “Die Zwerge” (The Dwarves) – the most successful German fantasy novel series by Markus Heitz – together with Johannes Steck.
With these two artists, they also brought their next big project, the first “Fantastical” of 2017, to the stage. “The Curse of the Dragon” combines historical music with fantasy literature, acting and musical performance. In 2022, a new experiment will be launched: in collaboration with guitarist Sami Yli-Sirniö (KREATOR, WALTARI), the new band project “Corvus Corax Era Metallum” combines the Nordic works of Corvus Corax with the hard sound of metal, off the usual paths of the well-known medieval rock.
So you can’t say Corvus Corax “only” make medieval music. Corvus Corax combine historical music with modern fantasy elements, they experiment with different cultural sounds and crazy instruments. It doesn’t matter whether they play in a club, in a concert church, at the Kaltenberg Knights’ Tournament or in front of thousands of metal heads at the Wacken Open Air:
Corvus Corax know how to get people to dance and jump around crazily – just as you know it from the St Vitus Dance from the Middle Ages.

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