Astarte - Demonized

Women in metal bands is hot. Astarte has 3, and 3 hot ones at that! The male members are listed as just session members on their myspace page, probably just so that they can call themselves a female black metal band. Careful of that myspace link, its rough on the eyes. Black text over a black and white background does not work...

Being dominated by female members is probably the only reason this band gets any sort of press. Otherwise they play melodic black metal in the vein of Dimmu Borgir or Old Man's Child, although not as epic. It's nothing incredibly original, but it's done well. They probably could have cut a few tracks, as the thing clocks in at 64 minutes, which is about 20 black metal minutes more than I can sit through. The blond singer, Tristessa, has a slighty more glass-swallowing voice than Angela Gossow of Arch Enemy. Angela contributes vocals on the track "Black at Heart" and there's some other guest vocals here and there.

Here is their new video for the track Everlast


If you are digging these more brutal female fronted bands, check out the album Aura Sense by Enter Chaos. And if you just want complete brutality from a woman, listen to Merlin. She's not at all attractive, but she's got a brutal voice.