Women Who Growl - Kathy Coupez from Dylath- Leen

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So, you lovers of women growling. I kinda got you a treat today. Say hello to Kathy Coupez, who not only growls and does melodic voice, but plays the guitar. :) Isn't your the_future_modernes all sorts of awesome?

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Informative review of one of their ccds scroll down.

Dylath-Leen - Adorning Wounds

DYLATH-LEEN - THE FEAST

Dylath-Leen - Buy me a smile.

Dylath-Leen - The Awakening

Now I thinkthat a former member of the band was also a woman. The name was Carine Pochant, and the person was the keyboardist. Yep, see picture at the Link to a 2007 interview with Metal Storm

First I'll ask you to present the band: who's in it, how was it formed…


Kathy: I'm guitarist/singer since the formation of the band in 1999.
Jérémy: Hello, I'm bass player, since 1999 too.
Magaly: Hello, I'm on keyboards since 2002.
Igor: And me, on guitar and vocals, since the formation of the band too.
Kathy: There's also Arnaud, on drums, who's with us since 2002 too.

So, the formation of the band: what were the ideas you began with, your influences…?


Kathy: Well, from the start we wanted to make a professional CD immediately, without recording a demo. We all already knew each other in the band, and so we decided to mix all our influences, because, at the core, we didn't listen to the same things. And now we still don't, it ranges from death to thrash to black, and we mixed all that to make the Dylath-Leen style.
So, since the formation in 1999, we got in the studio in 2001 to record our first album, Insecure, with Stéphane Buriez of Loudblast.

About this, how did you got the 'éfi Jeunes' of the CROUS? How did that happen? After all, seeing the CROUS logo on a metal CD is quite strange!

(DM: the CROUS is a state organism in France in charge of student life: financing scholarship, for example. They also organize promotion actions like this Défi Jeune, literally Youngster Challenge. But, in France, seeing something like this granted to a subculture, is quite rare. Moreso if you're speaking of metal)

Igor: Let's say that this kind of proceeding is quite atypical both for them and for us and, well, we had to convince people accustomed to a certain kind of cultural products, that a project to defend a subculture like death metal is also valid. It's not because it's the culture of a minority that it shouldn't be mentionned, and also that we shouldn't have the right to have a real production. And so, we had to make them discover this culture, awake their interest, and be convincing enough.

DM: And so it worked! How did you do this?


Igor: Ah, well, a bit of rethorics, also I think they mostly saw our will to to it. We all had experience, we weren't coming out of nowhere, each of us already had experiences of the stage, or of being in a band… And the project seemed convincing because we ourselves were confident, I think.MORE