ABOUT
BIO
Origin: Italy/Switzerland
Genres: Avantgarde Death Black Metal
Years Active: 2004- Present
Label: --
Booking: Red Mist Booking & Management
Amthrya represent a journey, a destination into infinite spaces, a complex and contradictory research and a continous change. Lead character is the Man and his projection into the cradle of the world and his frightening of mortality, fragility and the precarious equilibrium of it. Amthrya represent the fragility of Man, of his mind and it opens on a insanity abyss of his paranoid and of his distortion of reality. It's a Diary of Alienation, a guide map of himself Ego. Images of Gem is the new Chapter open on this distorted vision of the World, that takes you to the madness, follies and suicide. From the mind of Barry, the creative Ego of project Amthrya, will guide you into the obscure abyss of human mind. Kasumi Onryo is the grudge voice, the return from the Death abyss and she'll guide you in a nightmare world...
Amthrya was born in 2004 as a one man band project from an idea of Barry. In 2012 came out the first album "Authentic Way" by the label Depressive Illusion. It's a cd and a tape that has for theme the suicide in a surreal contest, with a symphonic black metal sound. In 2016 Barry has stared the composing of the album "Incision of Gem", pointing new sounds more near on Black Death metal. In August 2017 Kasumi Onryo became the new vocalist and actually Amthrya has completed the formation with Ale MsT (Drums) and Vins (Bass Guitar).
The band has a musical experience with Opera IX, Impero delle Ombre, Entirety.
Images of Gem has been released in November 2018.
In January 2019 Ale MsT left the band. The new drummer, Fabius, complete now the formation.
“(...)Amthrya, (...) purpose a Black metal that its fondamental and peculiar feature is the female voice of Kasumi Onryo. The band’ sound is very atypical, juxtaposing to speed drums, the melodic guitar riffs. For sure it isn’t missed the visual component, that capture immediatly all the audience. The evening is brilliant outdating with the decided consens of the audience, that it has accept and appreciate this Black metal wave a bit “innovative”
- METALFORCE -
"Amthrya is something else entirely and they don’t let themselves be pinned down to one convenient regional sound. (...) Amthrya is the kind of band that demands the listener’s full attention to truly absorb the layers and nuance of their work. That alone makes them worthy of adulation compared to all these other more conventional Italian death metal sounding bands. None of them are seldom as interesting as Amthrya is here – and that sells Amthrya as the superior practitioner."
-LEAST WORST OPTION-
"...self-production kissed by an excellent sound and a truly masterful cohesion of intents. Each member of the band brings their influences (as it should be) and they all flow into the unique sound of this great band. (...) Objectively the wall of sound erected by the band is remarkable, as well as (I would like to point out) Kasumi is confirmed as one of the best extreme singers in Italy."
- LOUD AND PROUD -