Ragana - Live at The Mohawk, Oblivion Access, Austin, TX 6/16/2023

June 16, 2023 - Ragana perform live at The Mohawk, Austin, Texas, kicking off the Flenser showcase at Oblivion Access Festival on Friday night, on a bill with Bosse de Nage, Agriculture, Planning For Burial, Sprain, Mamaleek, Drowse, Chat Pile, and Have a Nice Life.
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Ragana is a queer and 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, and now based in both Olympia and Oakland, 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 forebears Wolves In The Throne Room, 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. The duo released their debut album 2012 and hit their stride over the course of 3 additional full-lengths culminating in 2017’s heralded You Take Nothing LP. Ragana also went on to release a split with Thou in 2018 then a cassette-only EP We Know that the Heavens are Empty the following year. Now, Ragana will lay the groundwork for their forthcoming Flenser debut LP in 2023.
Oblivion Access Festival (formerly Austin Terror Fest) is an annual celebration of underground music and culture, which will take place across a three-day, extended weekend from Friday, June 16th to Sunday, June 18th, 2023. Oblivion Access will take over some of the most popular music venues in the renowned Red River Cultural District of downtown Austin-including returning venues, Empire Control Room & Garage, Mohawk, Elysium, Valhalla and Central Presbyterian Church, as well as, new in 2023, Chess Club and 13th Floor, to offer attendees performances from some of the most in-demand experimental, metal and hip-hop acts from across the globe.

[@tehBear1337]

Didn't know this band before. Great sound. And the band members switching up the instruments between different songs is something rarely seen. This whole festival seems amazing.

[@C.good2damax]

Their new album is sick! Thanks for putting this up!

[@Pavel-on-youtube]

🔥

[@ZomBeneath]

Their new album is fucking incredible.

[@Conquistadoom]

New favorite band

[@gumdood9532]

I wish I got to this show earlier.

[@thetrikka6]

so autentic!!

[@korakuen]

interesting dynamic, love their energy

[@angelevert9294]

Excellent

[@schizotransalien]

great

[@johandemoor7]

Great

[@e.tezani3877]

No Blasphemer on bass?