Astarte Interview with Tristessa (2004) [The Lunar Hypnosis Archives]

[@dmuellner1997]

I bought the Vinyl Dancing in the Dark Lakes of Evil from their previous band Lloth a couble of years ago from Livor Mortis. I have Astarte Vinyl on my Discogs wantlist for years now but never came around to buy something by them. Really need to change that.

[@joesmetalmancave]

Astarte's first three albums are solid symphonic black metal albums, no masterpieces, but solid for sure. After that they went in a more modern black/death direction, which I didn't much care for. I've wanted to hear that Lloth demo for a long time now. I always heard it was really good!

[@dmuellner1997]

Imo the Lloth demo is better then anything Astarte ever did.

[@joesmetalmancave]

@@dmuellner1997 I'm not surprised. I'll check it out someday.

[@pieface8032]

This was a fantastic interview great questions but in particular her answers! I kind of half remember a KZbin video I watched a long time ago talking about them as I remember the band photo and their unfortunate end. Not sure if I ever bought any of their music though so I'll keep them in mind to check. Great vid Joe 🤘🏻

[@joesmetalmancave]

Their debut Doomed Dark Years is definitely worth hearing. Likewise, I've heard their demo under the Lloth name is very good too.