The band often uses bagpipes as the solo instrument; their live performances attract attention with the bizarre look of the musicians being reminiscent of ancient Greek myths: half-naked, dressed in unusual clothes, wearing primitive tribal decorations, often tattooed.

Matters are further complicated by the fact that each minstrel would add his personal interpretation to a piece, and that recorded (i.e. written) versions may differ depending on who did the transcribing, and where.

The CD turned out to be a commercially successful experiment and the band decided to continue the tradition of that album in a separate musical project called Tanzwut, which included Castus Rabensang (German Rabensang = ravensong), Wim, and Teufel (German Teufel = Devil) from Corvus Corax as well as three new members.

In 2005 Corvus Corax started the ambitious project Cantus Buranus: a full-length opera set to the original Carmina Burana manuscript lyrics.

Out on 1 August 2008 via the band owned label Pica Music, Cantus Buranus II was released.,[3] It is a new orchestral recording of songs from the medieval manuscript "Carmina Burana".

The Berlin-based act created a composition for orchestra, choir and a medieval ensemble and recorded the CD and DVD live in the Museum Island in front of 5,000 people.