April 25, 2009: The label which was going to release Lonesome Drinking Metal has instead given up the ghost, meaning that album's release is now on hold while we go find another label. Schmerzensgewalt will be released in the fall of 2009. The new WOLFMANGLER album will be titled They Call Us Naughty Wolves.
March 3, 2009: The new issue of Oaken Throne is out and includes a feature on Dead Raven Choir, plus a track from an upcoming album on the accompanying CD.
February 7, 2009: We have uploaded some tracks to last.fm, including a few not available online before.
January 26, 2009: Smolken and a new vocalist named Wylif are working on a new WOLFMANGLER album. Wylif also appears on DEAD RAVEN CHOIR's "Bird Song" which is found (in a freshly updated version) on the Myspace page.
November 17, 2008: Three new things today. The upcoming Dead Raven Choir album Schmerzensgewalt has been added to the discography. The Jewelled Antler Library box set can now be preordered. Finally, added one more review of Dwelling In A Dead Raven For The Glory Of Crucified Wolves.
September 22, 2008: The release of Lonesome Drinking Metal has been delayed until 2009, but another new album titled Schmerzensgewalt is now being completed and will be released in late 2008. Also posted a new review of My Firstborn Will Surely Be Blind.
July 27, 2008: Cooking With Wolves is finally out on vinyl.
May 9, 2008: Added a link to a fan-made video to the Sounds page.
April 22, 2008: Stewart Voegtlin of Left Hand Path has published an interview with Smolken.
March 10, 2008: Added a couple of reviews of WOLFMANGLER's Cooking With Wolves. The Metal Archives reviewer gave it a 0% rating so you know that review is worth a read.
February 14, 2008: Two more reviews of My Firstborn Will Surely Be Blind.
January 29, 2008: A couple of reviews of My Firstborn Will Surely Be Blind.
January 28, 2008: My Firstborn Will Surely Be Blind is starting to arrive in US distros and stores.
January 22, 2008: The vinyl version of Cooking With Wolves will be released in March by Black Horizons.
December 30, 2007: Smolken is already working on a new album titled Lonesome Drinking Metal. As the title implies, black metal interpretations of country songs.
December 2, 2007: After much delay Dwelling In A Dead Raven For The Glory Of Crucified Wolves is finally available on double vinyl with gatefold and two posters. Black and colored vinyl.
November 23, 2007: My Firstborn Will Surely Be Blind is now available on vinyl with 300 of the copies on colored vinyl available directly from the label.
November 19, 2007: My Firstborn Will Surely Be Blind is now out on CD.
October 10, 2007: Two more reviews of Cooking With Wolves. The one from Malestrom is especially worth reading - the album received the coveted 0/10 rating.
June 5, 2007: The new WOLFMANGLER album Cooking With Wolves is now available.
January 17, 2007: WOLFMANGLER Hungry Hungry Wolves 7" is now available on Short Forest Records, as are some DEAD RAVEN CHOIR band shirts printed by the God Is Myth label.
October 27, 2006: Cask Strength Black Metal is now also available as a double CD on Supernal Music.
October 12, 2006: This website has been moved to a new address.
August 21, 2006: Selenoclast Wolves has been released and is now available from the God Is Myth label. European distribution will be handled by Cold Spring.
July 3, 2006: DEAD RAVEN CHOIR is an active and functioning band again and is working on a new black metal album.
June 13, 2006: WOLFMANGLER's Dwelling In A Dead Raven For The Glory Of Crucified Wolves is now available on CD.
March 10, 2006: Death To Dead Wolves has been reviewed in the Russian editon of Men's Health magazine.
December 6, 2005: All the black metal recordings of DEAD RAVEN CHOIR have been reissued as a three-LP box on the Weird Forest label. Cask Strength Black Metal!
September 28, 2005: The split with MOSS has now been released. WOLFMANGLER band shirts are also available from Aurora Borealis.
August 4, 2005: This site will not be updated for a while. WOLFMANGLER is on indefinite hiatus while Smolken changes continents. Material that's already recorded will continue to be released as planned, however.
August 10, 2004: DEAD RAVEN CHOIR and GARLIC YARG are no more.
May 6, 2004: DEAD RAVEN CHOIR's Death To Dead Wolves CD is now available.
December 19, 2003: Smolken's very old dog died today.
November 21, 2003: The Wine, Women And Wolves CD is now available. This is the first DEAD RAVEN CHOIR release in a format other than CD-R.