It was late 1999 when Jim Petkoff, the white knight [guitar/vox], and Rino Amoriono, the raven [guitar], met over a cold beer in Adelaide, South Australia: the city of churches and where AC/DC found Bon Scott. This would mark the beginning of Raven Black Night's campaign to bring their traditional metal sound to a worldwide audience. After deciding to form a doom/heavy metal band, they enlisted Matt Spencer the black night [bass], and Jeremy the godfather on drums. They began building a formidable live reputation, with a style of metal that appealed to many varieties of metal heads in their home town. With their stage adjourned with swords, shields, and candles, they spent 2003-2006 criss-crossing Australia, performing at various metal festivals and underground clubs. Drummer Joe Toscano was brought into the band and their first album, Choose The Dark, was recorded and released in 2005. Choose The Dark garnered praise throughout Australia and Europe, and a track from was chosen for Germany's Heavy magazine's compilation featuring unsigned artists. This all culminated into an invitation in 2007 to perform at the 10th annual Headbangers Open Air in Germany, where they band performed with Candlemass, Rage, and many others. The band also performed at Hard n Heavy summer nights and hells pleasure festivals. Several years of touring and festival appearances were to follow throughout Australia. In 2010-2011 Jim, Rino with Chris on bass enlisted Matt Enright to record new material for their long awaited follow up cd. Barbarian Winter, That was released through Metal Blade records worldwide, it gained great reviews and respectable sales in the doom metal rock scene. In 2019 the band were the the first Australian band to perform at UP THE HEAMMERS IN ATHENS GREECE to a amazing response and people from all over Europe coming to see them. In 2020 RAVEN BLACK NIGHT RELEASED RUN WITH THE RAVEN through SAOL[Germany] that has gained the band new reviews and fans from Europe, South America, and America. The band plan to record a new album soon and hit the road to play to the heavy metal masses!!!!! www.facebook.com/ravenblacknightofficial www.twitter.com/ravenblackn www.youtube.com/jimpetkoff DISCOGRAPHY 2002 – demo 2000 self-titled ,2002 – Morbid Gladiator – demo 2005 – Choose The Dark – album – self-released, 2013-Barbarian Winter [metal blade records] 2015- Return of The Metal martyrs[discography of demos and choose the dark and three unreleased tracks] Blood and Iron records 2022-Run With The Raven [Saol] ravenblacknight@hotmail.com p.o box 158 Henley beach 5022 South Australia Australia