“Obsessed with wolves and the latent terror lurking behind silences, Dead Raven Choir honorably represent the raw black metal wing of San Francisco's Jewelled Antler Collective. Eking out an acoustic Melvins dust-storm force-fed *Metal Machine Music*, Smolken, a Polish exile named for the grave digger in Corman's *The Undead*, inhabits the wilds of Texas, masterminding miasmatic atmospherics that i”