Lee: Founding members Lee and Lachlan initially decided to start a recording band, and we found we were listening to a lot of bands and they might have a very cool section on their album which would have a keyboard part or guest female vocal section and if we were to go and see these bands play live, quite often those elements that first drew us to those bands weren't present in the live performance, which we found disappointing. So we decided to write some songs that would incorporate these elements throughout the duration of the entire song and not just an intro or prelude etc. After we had released our first album titled 'Myriad', we decided to go from recording project to live band.

Lee: Doom/Gothic Metal

 

Lee: The response to Lycanthia is growing day by day, in March this year our album was released by Hypnotic Dirge Records and we have more people attending our shows recently, which is great.

 

Lee: Lycanthia is the title of a  book written by Tanith Lee

 

Lee Tassaker - Bass & Vocals

Vanessa Black - Violin & Vocals

Megan Tassaker - Keyboard & Vocals

Mathew Newton - Guitar

Stephen Mikulic - Guitar

Lachlan Donaldson - Drums

 

 

Lee: Every member is active in the writing of music and most of us contribute to lyrics or themes.

 

Lee: A great deal of the lyric themes are about feelings of anger and depression, often associated with being repressed by the powers that be. Also there are various fantasy related themes as well.

 

Lee:
Self Titled demo

Myriad

Inferno (single)

Within The Walls

Oligarchy

Plus various tracks have been featured on many compilation albums

 

Lee: We believe this is a collection of our greatest songs so far. A great deal of time and energy has been spent on getting these songs just right. We had Oligarchy mastered by Jens Bogren at Fascination Street Studios (Opeth, Katatonia)

 

Lee: Mat also play guitar for Bleakwood (black metal), Megan plays in Avrigus (Symphonic Doom) and has recently done guest vocals for Ekove Efrits (Experimental/Ambient/Black Metal), both Vanessa and myself have done guest work for Avrigus, and I play Bass in Cruciform (Death-Doom).

Lee: My Dying Bride, Iron Maiden, Anathema, Primordial, Bolt Thrower, to name few of many...

Lee: Draconian, Swallow The Sun, Saturnus.

 

Summon: What is the band like when you play live? 

Lee: We all work extremely well together on stage, everything locks in and we all feel confident with each other.

 

Lee: The best band we have played with to date was our most recent gig with Eluveitie when they toured Australia.

 

Lee: No we have not played in another country but we have various dates booked for USA this October.

 

Lee: For local gigs, roughly 100 people, which is quite standard for Australia. but when get to play festivals or international support, we can have hundreds or even over 1000 attend.

Lee: We have been received very well lately, with a great deal of audience interaction, which has made it a lot of fun for us.

 

Lee: Especially for our sub-genre of metal, quite small. There seems to be quite a few bands popping up in recent years that would be more fitting on a bill with Lycanthia, which is great. For many years beforehand, although we are great fans of other styles of metal, we would have to play black metal or death metal gigs just to play live.