CHRISTIAN MISTRESS - Children of the Earth
Cruz Del Sur Music
So does anyone else remember CHRISTIAN MISTRESS? Well yeah I do, back in the late 2000's they where what you would call "a thing". Basically they were a new female fronted Metal band with some good musicianship. some people in the Metal media put em into the Doom genre category. I didn't but hey I'm not a hiptard.
The band, who were from Seattle, Washington, started out in 2008. Their debut full length, Agony & Opium, came out in 2010 on 20 Buck Spin records. Their second and well received album, Possession, came out in 2012 on Relapse Records. This was their high point. Then in 2015 the band released To Your Death which was a decent rocker. After that the band went silent.
I own all three of the CHRISTIAN MISTRESS full lengths. I still think Possession is a great album. But here we are ten years later and the band is back but not what you think. The band right now is still Christine Davis on vocals, Tim Diedrich who joined in 2014 on guitar, Jonny Wulf is still on bass and Reuben W. Storey still on drums. Back in the day this band was a five piece act but those two original guitarists are gone.
So what does CHRISTIAN MISTRESS sound like ten years later? Well in all honesty they're not as good as they use to be. Musically this eight song release reminds me of a time decades ago when you'd have an average sounding rock band with a female singer and you thought they were OK. At their high point years ago CHRISTIAN MISTRESS were probably filling a five hundred capacity venue. Listening to this I think they'd be lucky to get thirty people to see em in a bar on a Saturday night.
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