What is "raising hell"

n. making trouble just for the fun of it [syn: hell raising]

Raising Hell is the third studio album by hip hop group Run–D.M.C.. The breakthrough album trumped standing perceptions of commercial viability for hip-hop groups, achieving triple- platinum status and receiving critical attention from quarters that had previously ignored hip hop, dismissing it as a fad.

Raising Hell is a concert video by the heavy metal band Iron Maiden, filmed on 28 August 1993 at the Pinewood Studios in London, England and broadcast live on pay-per-view television in the United Kingdom and on MTV in North America. The video was originally distributed on VHS and Laserdisc by BMG Special Products in the US and EMI in the rest of the world. It was subsequently released on DVD several years later in the US.

The concert was the last to feature vocalist Bruce Dickinson (until he returned to the band in 1999). The band played on stage in conjunction with horror magician Simon Drake, who ended up "killing" Dickinson in an Iron Maiden torture device, "amputated" Dave Murray's hands on a table saw and "killed" members of the crew and audience.

Raising Hell: How the Center for Investigative Reporting Gets the Story is a nonfiction work by David Weir and Dan Noyes, with a foreword by Mike Wallace. It was published in 1983 by Addison-Wesley Publishing Company and contains reprints of investigative journalism articles from the time period, with analysis and background on how the journalists investigated the issues and prepared for the articles. An article by Kate Coleman and Paul Avery called "The Party's Over", which discussed the Black Panthers, was analyzed.

Jessica Mitford and Mike Wallace both wrote positively of the book. It was also reviewed in Newspaper Research Journal.

Raising Hell is used as a college textbook, and is referenced in Pearson's The Shadow of the Panther, and in John Lofland's Social Movement Organizations: Guide to Research on Insurgent Realities.

Raising Hell may refer to:

• Raising Hell (film), a documentary by Ed Webb-Ingall
• Raising Hell (album), an album by Run-D.M.C.
• Raising Hell, an album by Fatback Band
• " Raising Hell (Bullet for My Valentine song)", a song by Bullet for My Valentine
• Raising Hell (book), a book by David Weir and Dan Noyes
• Raising Hell (video), a video by Iron Maiden
• Overlord: Raising Hell, an expansion pack to the 2007 video game Overlord

Raising Hell is a 2010 documentary film by Ed Webb-Ingall that explores the experiences of children of gay and lesbian parents. Webb-Ingall specifically sought to "create a safe space where kids [could] be seen to be speaking freely and openly about their experiences [with gay and lesbian parents] without having to be poster kids for the perfect family or the perfect childhood". The film also features interviews with sociologist and gay activist Jeffrey Weeks, psychologist Susan Golombok and family lawyer Gill Butler.

"Raising Hell" is a song by Welsh metal band Bullet for My Valentine. It was released on 18 November 2013 as a promotional single to showcase what the band's future material will sound like. The song is featured as a deluxe edition bonus track on the band's fifth album Venom. This would prove to be the final song that featured Jason James on bass after the band and him parted ways in February 2015.