‘DIY shock rock’ isn’t a familiar concept to most listeners, but Raven Black are proving that it can be done. The Michigan quartet bring the whole package, from their stylized onstage characters and elaborate comic-book backstories to their excitable live antics and grinding horror-metal. That the band have risen to the metal world’s surface so quickly speaks to the fact that theatrical rock can be done without a big machine behind it, and that diehard perseverance and belief in one’s art — even if it includes undead dolls, voodoo witch doctors, and other bizarre things that might haunt Roman Dirge’s nightmares — pays off in the end. Hear Me Cry, the new video from the band’s upcoming third album The Key, also displays how Raven Black’s th...
