Paul Raven

Posted October 23rd, 2007 by administrator

Paul Raven, who died on Saturday aged 46, was formerly bass guitarist with Killing Joke, the British post-punk band best remembered for their hit Love Like Blood (1985) and often cited as an influence on acts such as Nirvana.

Raven was recruited to the group in unusual circumstances. It had been formed at Notting Hill Gate in the late 1970s by frontman Jaz Coleman, featuring Paul Ferguson on drums, Geordie Walker on guitar and Martin “Youth” Glover on bass. The band’s early music was a ritualistic, doom-laden sonic throb, described by Ferguson as “the sound of the earth vomiting”.

This noise led them to be bracketed with the likes of Joy Division, and attracted punk and heavy metal fans as well as the notice of the disc jockey John Peel. They also drew a measure of controversy when the cover of one release depicted Pope Pius XII with Nazi soldiers.

Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1566903/Paul-Raven.html

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