Enter the world of Blackthorn and enter their Coven.  Your senses will be filled with symphonic metal music that unleashes and fulfills your
deepest musical desires with a sound that will awaken your inner soul.  The band was formed by Aina who found the name meant 'tree of magic'.
"I found out that blackthorn is a tree of magic,
the tree of spiritual strength and support, the tree of protection. I think
this is trully ours," she said.

The band hail from Moscow, Russia, and rock with a solid fervor as they
pour their hearts with deep intensity into their music.  Blackthorn have just marked a decade of existence since forming in 2004 and include 
Aina, Stray Away Cantatrice - soprano/scream, lyrics; Elvira, Six String Alchemida - guitars, growl, keys, music; Greta, Adust Anomic Suicide - bass Acotath,
Ominous Chthonic Drumstruction - drums Less; Midnight Obscurant Violince - violin. 
The band have already released two full length LPs, been signed to MSR Productions/Ravenheart Records/Hunter's Moon Records/,
and are currently recording their third full length CD.  

"We were dominated by the strongest desire to create something
 great and breathtaking, something that gonna be top-ranked in just one  week, hah, said Aina. The image... we found it almost straight off the reel. Witchery  is in our nature, I believe it lies in the shadows of any woman's soul.  There's nothing new under the sun, we took the ancient essence of woman and upgraded it a little."  Elvira added, "Being in the band means having one more family that always supports you. And yes, that's exactly the whole new world where you can  hide from all the troubles for a while."

Elvira said, "The biggest goal always was and will be to put our ideas into life. Developing is very important to any musician, same as discovering new horizons in music. I also want to spread the magic of what we do as wide as possible!"  I've been in love with music since I was 4. I was accepted into the music school very young. It all started as a reception class for under-fives, where we sang in a choir before focusing on the basic stuff.  After graduating from the school in piano 7 years later, I continued singing in a choir for one more year. The first song that inspired me was a soundtrack of a Russian TV series “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson” composed by Vladimir Dashkevich.
I didn't feel inspired at the very beginning. I started playing violin just out of curiosity... I was too little to have a real passion,
but I did like that. Eventually I first spent 7 years in a music school, then 12 years in a music college."

 

Blackthorn have been successful as an all female band and have found support despite the stereotypes often associated with this gets misunderstood.  Aina said, "Being in a metal band means to be misunderstood by most people.  They believe that If you like or especially play metal music, you are definitely a satanist, murderer, deadbeat, waste of skin, drugster and blah-blah-blah. I do think the best way to react is not to react. We are who we are, it doesn't depend on someone's point of view. There's only one truth."
"I just wanna say that female bands must work harder than male
ones to be respected, said Elvira. Anyway, there will always be people that don't evenwant to check out your skills and music, they are just like “you are woman, know your place, you don't have balls to play metal”. Alas, stereotypes rule the world.  All-female bands are ok when it comes to pop music. Once the softer sex encroaches on something “male” - music or extreme sports – it causes commotion. But it's more about hidden complexes I would say."

Elvira jokes, "Please don't laugh, but let me say that our music is about trying not to break your fingers...I can tell you that the most important thing in composing our music – is to catch that first impulse of inspiration and perpetuate it. If you don't feel inspiration, there is no reason to create at all."
"I guess you're interested in our lyrics,said Aitna... Well, it's all based on witchcraft, the inner power of all women. I know at first it looks stale, to be honest it's really hard to find fresh new ideas to sing about nowadays. But at the same time I'm sure that everything in this world is many-sided and I try to find these new sides. I do care about lyrics, I dont' want Blackthorn to be another band with good music and poor lyrics just because I'm too lazy to rack my brains. I hope people understand that even though it looks like we sing about the unreal, these are real things beneath it all."