RAGANA

Ragana are a queer female two-piece whose members alternate duties on drums, guitar, and vocals to produce some of the most unique and affecting dark music being made today.  

 

Originally coming together in the DIY punk scene of Olympia, Washington, Ragana draw upon a number of influences from the flora and fauna of their Pacific Northwest origins to the darkly nostalgic folk of Mt. Eerie (and, yes, their Olympian forebearers Wolves In The Throne Room) by synthesizing them into an experimental, highly idiosyncratic take on black metal. Held together by an intense focus on raw emotion and haunting atmospherics, Ragana shifts seamlessly from tender, mesmerizing vocal harmonies to piercing, heart-ripping shrieks and back again. Heavy, dark, beautiful and punishing. 

 

“It’s necessary to create environments that are explicitly anti-fascist in the metal scene, and in the world. We are anarchists and feminists and we want our music to impassion people to rage and revolt. We want to be part of communities where people are invested and interested in revolution.”

– Ragana 

http://ragana.org/