Country: Turkey
History: 2008 – Currently
Status: Active
Style: Black Metal

Biography:
Ilkim Oulanem is a one-person female black metal project in Turkey. In 2005, Oulanem formed a pure black metal band called Messershmit in Ankara. After performing as a bass-vocal in the group for a while, in 2008 she released a personal 2-track demo. In this demo named “The Alarm”, all lyrics, vocals and all instrumental performances belongs to ?lkim Oulanem and gathered quite interest and critically well-received. She toured in ?stanbul, Gaziantep and Eski?ehir for this demo.

Nowadays with her current schedule of concerts in various cities of Turkey, she also completed to work over a split album with an U.S. band Demonic Holocaust and her second E.P “Iblisbilim” which will be released in 2009. The split album features 5 tracks including “Hey Puppet” from the demo “The Alarm”, and the E.P will offer 3 songs and one track remixed.

Lineup:
Ilkim Oulanem – Vocals, all instruments

Discography:
2008, “The Alarm” (Demo)
2009, “Iblisbilim” (EP)

Related links:
http://www.myspace.com/ilkimoulanemband
www.ilkimoulanem.com

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Country: Norway/Canada
History: 2007
Status: Active
Style: Black Metal/Punk

Biography:
DödsÄngel is the Swedish word to refer to the “Angel of Death”, and is also the name of the solo project of the prolific Canadian-Norwegian Trish, playing the drums in bands such as Hinsides (black metal, Sweden), Gate To Khaos (black/thrash metal, Norway), KäftSmäll (d-beat punk, Sweden) and Warsystem (dis-core, Canada).

With drummer vocation, she offered her sticks to metal and punk bands for many years, and in 2006 he decided to try with the guitar and the bass. She played these instruments in other formations, so that in 2009 acquired the necessary level to record a demo by herself with her own compositions. The project initially was called Svartedød, name under which she recorded a single low quality song. Trish redraw her style, improved her technique, and renamed the project DödsÄngel to suit the new features.

The shift led to the first demo “Helgrind”, with eight tracks recorded in the canadian Deathcult studies, that have a mixture of raw black (fast, dark and straightforward), punk and hardcore. In her own words, her style can be defined as “blackmetalpunk”.

Lineup:
Trish – Vocals, all the instruments

Discography:
2009, “Helgrind” (Demo)

Related links:
http://www.myspace.com/dodsangel

Country: Colombia
History: 2008 – Currently
Status: Active
Style: Black Metal

Biography:
Coldnight started its story in summer 2008, but his music fits better in the cold winter nights. The creator of this solo project is Hypotermia, who describes her music as depressive suicidal metal.

After participating in a compilation of black metal entitled “Sadistic Killingspree”, she recorded her LP “My Dying Soul” at the Unholy Studios, which requires a label to see the light.

Coldnight worked in the recording of “Obsession”, a split with Exiled From Light (N.Z.) and Nekrofrost (U.S.A.).
Hypotermia has also collaborated in the album “The Dark, The Withered” from the band Asbel, a black metal record together with three female black metal vocalists: Tamara from Upon Shadows (Uruguay), Moonlike AKA Nayra from Blackest Orchid (Canada) and Ilkim Oulanem [Turkey].

Currently Coldnight is walking the path to its depressive essence with the recording of the new album “Morphine Peace”.

Lineup:
Hypotermia – All the instruments and programming

Discography:
2008, “My Dying Soul” (LP)

Related links:
http://www.myspace.com/bandcoldnight

Country: United States
History: 2003 – Currently
Status: Active
Style: Black/Progressive Metal

Biography:
This is a one woman project, Megan Branigan. It started up in 2003 as Origin Of Silence, under which name she released her first LP “Mirage World Revival” in 2005.

It gives a sample of their music, which is characterized by progressive passages, epic and melodic winds and clean vocals combined with black registers.

Already in 2008 she decided to rename the band by Branigan, under which she is recording her upcoming songs and perhaps some Origin Of Silence reissues.

Lineup:
Megan Branigan – Vocals, all the instruments

Discography:
2005, “Mirage World Revival” (LP, under the name of Origin Of Silence)

Related links:
http://www.myspace.com/mbranigan

Country: Taiwan
History: 2007 – Currently
Status: Active
Style: Black/Death Metal

Biography:
Taiwanese band formed by four young black and death metal fans. A entirely female act since its inception, switched drummers when when Mibo decided to call it a day and left the band, replaced by A Po.

Although not having any demo recorded, theiy have their own compositions.

Lineup:
Mai – Bass
Shinya – Guitar
Ice – Vocals
A Po – Drums

Former members:
Mibo – Drums

Related links:
http://www.myspace.com/blairwitchevil

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Country: Russia/Sweden
History: 2007 – 2008
Status: Inactive
Style: Folk/Black Metal

Biography:
Nornir’s Wisdom is the project of Xenia, a young multiintrumentist that produces a disturbing black metal with pagan folk touches.

With only one year of activity, she has already produced a self-titled demo recorded in summer 2007, containing the songs “When Naglfar Sails”, “A Pagan Foretelling” and “Our Blood Our Victory”.

Her influences range from Black Sabbath and Iron Maiden to Bathory, Summoning and Isengard.

After releasing her interesting demo, not much was know from the band, and their myspace has eventually dissapeared.

Lineup:
Xenia – Vocals, guitar, bass, drums programming, music and lyrics

Discography:
2008, “Demo” (Demo)

Related links:
http://www.myspace.com/nornirswisdom

Country: Portugal
History: 1995 – Currently
Status: Active
Style: Gothic/Black Metal

Biography:
Black Widows has been over ten years fighting to gain a spot in the scene. With a style marked by the combination of gothic and black metal, it has been the victim of many lineup changes.

The worst moment for the band was when the drummer Carla Marques died suddenly in 1999. Black Widows were about to give up, but eventually continued their way.

Because of their commitment, they got contracted by the Portuguese label Recital Records in 2000, with whom they recorded two years after their first and only LP so far, “Sweet … The Hell”. Six years had passed since their first demo, recorded in five hours.

In “Sweet … The Hell”, Gunter Theys, from Ancient Rites, lends his vocals on “Life’s wish” and “Awaken”.

Lineup:
Rute Fevereiro – Vocals, guitar
Lea Cardoso – Keyboards and Synths
Ema – Guitar
João Monteiro – Drums

Former members:
Vanessa – Guitar
Cláudia – Bass
Sophia Starsha – Bass
Marta P. – Keyboards
Carla Marques – Keyboards
Galia – Keyboards
Chris – Drums
Ana Costa – Drums
Xana – Guitar
Eliana Correia – Guitar
Sara Cardoso – Bass

Discografía:
1996, “Promo-tape” (Cassette)
1998, “Miracles Of Sadness” (Demo)
2001, “Dark Side Of An Angel” (EP)
2002, “Sweet… The Hell” (LP)

Related links:
http://www.myspace.com/blackwidowsband

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Origen: México
Historia: 2002 – Actualidad
Estado: Activo
Estilo: Black Metal

Biografía:
Throne Of Naya is the name of the musical realm devised by Elvira Naya. She is the only permanent inhabitant of this dark place, and from her throne she is organizing the instrumentalization of some of her music.

While the idea came in 2002, driven by her passion for Darkthrone, and the first lyrics were crystallized in 2003, it was not until 2004 that the first black metal demo “Cause Of Death” was recorded semi-improvised in five days with Mexican session musicians.

In 2004 Elvira paid tribute to the masters of the style, with a demo containing covers of Darkthrone and Mayhem among others. This apparent attraction to old-school black was set out again in hes demo “Sacrifices”.

In “Trangressions” Throne Of Maya shows part of the prehispanic culture, and takes a trip to Europe to promote their music, which has been very well received in countries like Germany or Norway.

Working with her (now) former band Manifest of Glific kept Elvira Naya aloof from her throne, but in 2008 she returned to sit on it to offer new music.

Lineup:
Elvira Naya – Vocals, bass, synthesizers, guitar

Former, session and live members:
Diego – Drums
Camou – Guitar
Guillermo – Guitar, bass
Wolfthroat – Drums
Alejandro – Bass
Folter – Bass
Alemsahim – Bass

Discography:
2004, “Cause of Death” (Demo)
2004, “Covering” (Demo)
2005, “Sacrifices” (Demo)

Related links:
http://www.myspace.com/throneofnaya

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Country: Russia
History: 2006 – Currently
Status: Active
Style: Black/Experimental Metal

Biography:
This is a one woman project, Katerina Horoshiltseva, best known as Terra Teratos. Rather it is the unification in 2006 of multiple individual projects as far:

• Teratos – Avant-garde piano music
• Mertvye Pesni – Only vocals, medieval folk and funeral rituals
• Goetia – Dark ambient
• Rokot Voln – Black ambient
• Tierdrama – Black metal
• N.O.V.A.R.A. – Cyber black metal
• Chaos – Ambient/Psychedelic noise
• Tern – Symphonic Ambient

All these projects are considered as a preparation, training, for what Terra Teratos is now.

Their music is experimental, surrounded by a dark ambient, noise, rituals, symphonic folk, intrumental black, funeral and doom metal. Her project is not based on a single style, but is part of the same concept and ideology.

Terra Teratos is also active in the band of depressive black funeral doom metal Furva Ambiguitas “FAAS”. It started as her idea, and she sings, plays keyboards and composes lyrics. The band is formed together with Anton Mrak, who is responsible for stringed instruments.

And if that were not enough, bands such as Absenthe and Rainwill hired her services as a session vocalist, and gained experience as a singer in Burelom, Dregva (both now disbanded), Lethargia and Humanaizer.

Lineup:
Terra Teratos – All the instruments, vocals

Discography:
2006, “Thurs” (demo, not released)
2006, “Asphodel” , (LP, self-released)
2007, “Meditations about secret of my Dark destiny.Part 1″ (LP)
2007, “Never”, (EP)
2007, “Meditation about secret of my Dark Destiny. Part Zero”, (LP)

Related links:
http://terrateratos.narod.ru/

Country: United States
History: 2005 – Currently
Status: Active
Style: Black Metal

Biography:
The Ancient Queen is the name of Rachel “Lady Death” Centeno’s solo project, parallel to being vocalist and bassist of the thrash/death bands Dark Prophecy and Satriarch.

In The Ancient Queen she unleashes her most blackmetaller face, reflected in their demo “Malleus Maleficarum”, published in 2006 conteining 5 songs. In it, Lady Death plays all the instruments and sing all the voices.

Lineup:
Rachel “Lady Death” Centeno – Vocals, guitar, drums, bass.

Discography:
2006, “Malleus Maleficarum” (Demo)

Related links:
http://www.metal-archives.com/band.php?id=61843