For centuries Sri Lanka has slowly been turning away from its rich cultural heritage. A heritage soaked in Blood, Brutality, War and Hate as well as being entrenched in Peace, Honor and Mind warping Spiritualistic rituals. In 2008 a group of Individuals decided to address this slow fade of ancient knowledge. Out Of their longing to see their countries culture revert to the times of old, Raaksha was born.

Formed in the early dawn of 2008, Beelzebub and Deshapriya came together with a concept. A concept which Raaksha Projects. The concept of projecting the beauty and atrocity of ancient realms to modern day society.
The unique genre of Pure Hela Metal is characterized by Srilankan Folk music on an equal footing with Raw Black Metal sounds with furiously shredded guitar riffs with bowel shaking bass and animalistically decimated drum lines and traditional Sri Lankan percussions with Inhuman Shrieks and growls.

Raaksha disowns any other brand of hela metal, be it Sri metal or Hela black metal. We stay true to Hela Metal alone. As in the times of old, we hold our banner up high and take no prisoners.
Raaksha Speaks of a lost generation of self Sufficient, noble yet fierce humanitarian race that ruled Sri Lanka in medieval ages. Raaksha focuses more on their rituals, Dark arts, scarification, Demonology, ancestor worshiping, Patriotism, the suffering of the people during the colonial days and mainly almighty based religions. Most of raaksha's Works are done in the Ancient Language of Singhela, hence the Unique Genre of Hela metal. The Language which is used was specially parlance in the 10th and 11th century AD.

Raaksha's main influence is the Heavy metal gods Black Sabbath. Alongside with bands like Mayhem, Darkthrone , Windir, Venom, Bathory, Bethlehem, Om, Isis, Rudra, Necromantia, Dissection, Borknagar, Isolation, Drudhk and Sri Lankan Black Metal gods Siblings of hatred and Forlorn Hope.

Source : www.myspace.com/raakshalk