Interview : Sassy Skeleton & Rotten – Reactive Black
Interview by Robin Stryker As Halloween creeps closer on stealthy black-cat feet, my musical taste shifts gears towards darker fare, and you can’t get much darker than…
Interview : Magali Luyten – Virus IV
Interview by Connie Bach Virus IV is pure, solid, razor-sharp metal. No axes, just swords for this band; and it is an excellent sound. “Frightening Lanes” from…
Interview : Dianne van Giersbergen – Ex Libris
Interview by Connie Bach What is the expression people have? Where they feel they’ve heard a song before, and it has a flavour all its own. While…
Interview : Carlotta “Cheryl” Cimeli – Raven Tide
Interview by Connie Bach Raven Tide offers an energizing, yet soothing blend of driving guitars with a strong bass line, and balanced orchestra. The result is dark, warm,…
Interview : Anneka Latta – Exoterik
Interview by Connie Bach Here is a band with quite a strong, distinctive voice. Exoterik’s brand of metal blends raw power with sweetness, with element blending fluidly with…
Battlelore – “Doombound” (2011)
Label : Napalm Records Review by Tony Cannella With 2011 just underway, one of the most highly anticipated Femme Metal albums is “Doombound” by Finland’s Battlelore. This epic, fantasy metal…
Interview : Nitte Valo – Battle Beast
Interview by Ary R. With an upcoming album that will be released for Nuclear Blast, Finnish metal band Battle Beast is ready to bring its music around Europe.…
Interview : Barbara Licciardi – Todio
Interview by Erwin Van Dijk An interview with Barbara from Todio. Todio is a crossover progressive metal band from Italy. The band has been active since 1992 and…
Interview : Roberto “Brodo” Potenti & Ashley Watson – Skylark
Interview by Miriam NocturnalConcerto Well, it’s time for some Italian bands, don’t you think? So I think that we must give to a piece of the Italian metal…
Interview : Amanda Somerville – Trillium
Interview by Roberta Ilaria Rossi Many are her collaborations in the metal scene, such is her reputation in Europe. After having released an album for her new project,…
Interview : Barbara Mischeri – Shining Fear
Interview by Robin Stryker Fifteen hundred years ago, Verona was the stronghold of Theodric the Great and his army of Goths. Today, it is the stronghold of…
Interview : Ayin Aleph
Interview by Ed MacLaren Every once in a while an artist comes along that defies description, challenges convention and polarizes the listening public – like all great musicians…
Interview : Aziza Amy Poggi – Dendura
Interview by Erwin Van Dijk The band Dendura is from Detroit/Grand Rapids, Michigan (USA). Dendura describes themselves as (breath in) Female fronted Egyptian themed prog metal or Egyptian…
Interview : Aya (Anna Stefanowicz) – UnSun
Interview by Andy Axworthy Light and dark. It’s not unusual to hear this phrase in connection with gothic metal music although not all bands have melded these…
Interview : Carmen Susana Simões – Ava Inferi
Interview by Miriam “NocturnalConcerto” With an aura of mysticism two world collides. The cold Nordic wind meets the Meditterean warm breeze and melts down in a strange formula…
Interview : Marjan Welman – Autumn (2011)
Interview by Claudio Grippi After a two-year break from their album “Altitude”, the first lead by the new singer, Autumn are back with their 5th album called “Cold…
Interview : Aurora D’Nina – Yawarhiem
Interview by Marc “Peston” Sels Yawarhiem is a power/gothic band from Lima, Peru. I don’t know much about this band, therefore this interview with leadvocalist Aurora D’Nina, a…
Amanda Somerville – Kiske/Somerville (2010)
Interview by Robin Stryker When Femme Metal last spoke with American singer/songwriter Amanda Somerville in late 2009, she had just released her solo album “Windows” and was looking forward to…
Interview : Karin – Asrai
Interview by Erwin Van Dijk An interview with Karin from Asrai. Karin is the drummer from Asrai, a Rotterdam based gothic band. To what kind of music do…
Interview : Masha Scream – Arkona
Interview by Si Smith Arkona are probably one of the best known Russian folk metal bands and a new release is always hotly anticipated. While we wait for…