• Greece is very famous for its extreme metal scene. The scene however becomes even greater when it's represented by some fine women trying to teach everyone (men and women) how today's black metal should really be played. Follow their lead...

• For the band every time and especially the time that we are into the studio recording a new album, is very important. Especially when the output of the cd comes, then it is the most crucial moment. The opinions and the reviews are means a lot for the future of the band. For the time, we always get a positive feedback and this is what we expect to continue. So, the most important moments is when we share this feedback with our fans.  The line up is : KINTHIA (vocals ,guitar), NEMESIS (guitar), TANIA(drums) and me on the bass and acoustic guitars.

2.WHY HAVE YOU NAMED THE BAND AFTER A GODDESS? WHAT DO YOU WANT TO SAY WITH IT?

• The specific Goddess ASTARTE is representing the most important elements of the female existence. The fertility, the power and the beauty. She holds a great part of Greek mythology by representing Aphrodite, Demeter and Athena. Also she is called “Mother of Nature”, that means that she is a pagan goddess and this is another part of our band elements. So, Astarte is a source of inspiration due to her great past and power. She brings up elements of our culture and history and for us she is the link of old times into nowadays where the woman still brings life. According to the rites Astarte  in Ancient Phoenicia, is the great goddess of fertility, motherhood and war. She is associated with the moon and called the Mother of the Universe, giver of all life on Earth. She is ruler of all spirits of the dead, who lived in bodies of light that were representing the stars. She is very popular and she is worshiped in several places under different names like, ISIS and HATHOR of Egypt, KALI of India …

3.WHICH ARE YOUR MOST BELOVED BANDS AND WHICH BANDS DO YOU THINK HAVE NO PLACE IN THE METAL COMMUNITY?

• Beloved bands are Necromantia, Limbonic Art, The Embraced, Bathory, Abruptum, Iron Maiden, Eloy, Pazuzu, Samael and some others irrelevant to metal. In your second question I cannot name any band because the metal community is composed by several listeners and every band can be accepted or rejected according to the tastes of people. Personally what I can reject are bands that bring religious concepts and fanatic political issues. This is out of my music perception. It is better for them to keep it for themselves. I am against whatever insults the human status or mislead the mind. This must remain outside.

4.TELL US A FEW THINGS ABOUT THE BAND RELEASES AND ESPECIALLY FOR YOUR LATEST ALBUM. ARE YOU STILL SATISFIED WITH IT OR IS THERE ANYTHING YOU'D LIKE TO CHANGE?

• I can say for sure that this album is the best material we have ever made.  It is very important step because it is the third album where the band has to prove that is willing to give more and not o disappoint its audience. The third album is a very decisive and risky for the future of every band. For us the results are very satisfying. There is no need to change anything. Every thing is made at its time. Afterwards everything can change or become better. For the time that we wrote it we did the best and still I believe that we did our best.

5.WHAT ARE THE LYRICS TALKING ABOUT? WHICH SUBJECTS DO YOU LIKE TO HURT THROUGH YOUR LYRICS? WHAT ISNPIRES YOU AND WHAT TAKES AWAY THE INSPIRATION FROM YOU?

• First of all I want to say that my way of writing is allegoric. That means that the views and the messages that I want to pass are presented in a way that each reader can perceive the meanings according to his/ her own point of view. Open ideas that can reach to any mind and any mood.    Our Lyrics deal with several issues like several myths that come from our countries. For example the song Inflamed Paradox” Deals with the curse of the Lady of the Lake. This Lady lost her daughter and she died too from pain and grief. From that time the ghost of the lady appears to the passengers of the lake and scares them. She takes revenge for her daughter’s death. There are other tracks that deal with imaginary stories like “ Incarnate Legend Of the Mummy Queen”. This song talks about nowadays archaeologists who do not respect the ancient monuments. They steal them for wealth without any sense of guilt. Thus they open the grave of a Mummy queen, she raised up from her grave and start to kill human for wake her up form her eternal sleep. She punishes the human greed towards history. There are too many other issues in our lyrics that come from personal beliefs, from movies, books that we liked. We always like to pass messages. And we feel that music is a unique way of communication. It is a way to make dialogue with the entire world. We are inspired from movies , from personal experiences, from beliefs and from what surround us.

6.WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO ANSWER TO ALL THOSE WHO SAY THAT YOU DON'T DO ANY LIVE SHOWS, CAUSE YOU ARE NOT THE ONES PLAYING THE INSTRUMENTS AND THAT IN THE STUDIO MEN RECORD THE MUSIC INSTEAD FOR YOU.

• First of all anyone can say whatever he or she likes. Until now we had not a steady drummer to follow by hard our rehearsals and some tours that we wanted to go. Some months ago we finally found a female drummer and we work on it. For the rest comments about who is playing or composing music, well this is out of discussion. We don’t answer prejudice, stuck minds. To play guitar or bass or drums or keyboard is not difficult for women. There are many conservatories around us that both male and female go and teach an instrument. Where is the big deal of playing music???

7.HOW HAS THIS COMIC IDEA STARTED? TELL US A FEW THINGS ABOUT IT? WHERE WILL IT BE DISTRIBUTED?

• The first thing that came to my eyes was an email from a friend from Germany, who told me that he bought a comic. The heroes of that comic was three girls playing black Metal and there was real references for Astarte and our nick names were referring and the cover of our firs album was inside some pictures. So, we noticed that this comic was inspired from our band. Then I came in contact with the creator of this comic. His name is Timo Wurtz.he is a German and the web page is : www.blackm.de

8.HAVE YOU COMPOSED ANY NEW SONGS? HAVE YOU GOT ANY PLANS FOR THE FUTURE?

• The only sure for the moment is some experiments into new music directions. You may have notice that in every album we add new music elements. So, in the next album it is expected again to have changes. Lmore brutal and death riffs and guitars. I will not say more, because nothing is fixed yet.

9.MANY BLACK METAL BANDS SAY THAT THEY HATE PEOPLE AND DON'T WANT ANY CONNECTION WITH THE REST OF THE WORLD. HOWEVER, THEY RELEASE ALBUMS AND SO THEY "NEED", "SEARCH" FOR THE RECOGNITION OF THE FANS. ISN'T THIS A
LITTLE STRANGE?

• This attitude that you describe is not professional one. I would say that as long as I am into Metal scene I have not see this attitude to the bands. I have seen this to single listeners and fans of Black Metal. Some person looks like to be misanthropes but they belong to minorities. Maybe this is addressing to people who have not find a way to be socialized and they are trapped with theories that control and lead their minds. Many reasons make people treat like that but no bands exist with such behaviour, as I know!!

10.AND SUDDENLY BLACK METAL BECOMES POPULAR! MORE AND MORE NEW BANDS POP OUT SIGNING WITH BIG LABELS. HOW DO YOU FIND ALL THIS? WOULD YOU RECORD AN ALBUM FOR A HUGE LABEL IF YOU WERE GIVEN THE CHANCE?

• Of course. This is the main goal of my band. Things need to evolve and not stay on the same stage.

11.MANY EXTREME METAL BANDS EXPRESS RACISTIC IDEOLOGIES. WHICH ARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON THAT? BLACK METAL WAS CHASED A LOT IN THE PAST. SHOULDN'T THIS MAKE THE BANDS AND THE FANS MORE SENSITIVE IN SUCH
MATTERS?

• Black Metal started as a music that was serving many creedal dark sites and unholy ideologies. That fact brought differences among people’s beliefs. Many times we saw great bands to start were with each other and even to kill each other and burn churches. My opinion is that music role is total different. Such parasites must be out of the scene.  Nowadays things are total different. There are no such incidents from people behaviour. Now Music is facing different problems. I have observed a misleading on music direction. Many things are repeated again and again and one the other hand technology has take the first role. Musicians are not using their minds. They use ore technology.  In other words I am now against the wrong use of Technology.

• All those things that exist beyond our everyday life. Sometimes I want to leave everything behind and meet everything that I have not experience.

13.IF TIME TRAVEL WAS POSSIBLE, WHICH HISTORICAL PERIOD WOULD YOU LIKE TO VISIT AND WHY? WHAT WOULD YOU MISS THE MOST FROM OUR TIME?

• I can’t imagine my self in a different past period. But for sure if I was living in the past I would miss everything from this life.

14.WHAT PROLOGUE AND TITLE WOULD YOU LIKE THIS INTERVIEW TO HAVE?

• Under the Black Art Of Female Blacksters.

15.HOW ARE YOU PLANNING TO PROMOTE YOUR MUSIC? WHICH SONG OF YOUR DO YOU THINK IS THE MOST IDEAL TO REPRESENT YOU?

• Promotion is already done day by day through mails and letters. We will also plan to make some lives in the future.  All songs are representative ones. Music is composed from the three of us equally. So, three different ideas, personalities, music influences and atmosphere comes out. So, all songs are into game.

16.IF YOU HAD ENOUGH MONEY TO MAKE A VIDEO CLIP HOW WOULD YOU LIKE IT TO BE?

• Extreme and cruel!!!

17.WHICH IS YOUR MOST BELOVED MOVIE YOU'VE SEEN LATELY AND WHICH BOOK YOU ENJOYED READING?

• Lately we enjoy the following movies” Requiem for a dream” , “Instict”, “ Ameli”, “ The girl that I left Behind”, “Meet John Black”, “ Lord of the Rings”, “The Celar” and the greatest movies that we liked most is “The Midnight Express” and “ The last Exodus”.

18IF YOU WEREN'T INVOLVED WITH THE MUSIC, WHAT ELSE WOULD YOU LIKE TO DO?

• To write poetry. But this is not enough because I need action. My aim is to travel all around the world. I may do this by touring with astarte!!hehehe!!

19.THANK YOU!HAVE I FORGOTTEN TO ASK YOU ANYTHING AND YOU'D LIKE TO MENTION?

• I want to that you for put my into such interesting subjects. I want to say that we rarely supported from Greece Metal scene so this chance was really great. I want to thank your Magazine and all our readers.
• All my Darkest wishes!!!!