Ancestry - Battle ov the Fierce (2010)

   It was mentioned before that metal is kind of a short supplied thing if it's about Turkey. Therefore the appearence of Ancestry (or War Ancestry) was even more extraordinary, because they were an extreme metal band with female lineup. Nowadays it's way more common to find women in metal bands than before, but still they spark quite wide attention. Still there are two preferable features that are kind of difficult to find even nowadays: women in extreme metal and without sexual imagery and context (that's kind of a cheap trick that might sells, but only distracts from the music).

   Until today Ancestry was one of the very few (and unfortunately short lived) exceptions. Their music showed mixed influences that lied close to black/death, but basically it didn't follow any common directions of the style, and it's also difficult to find any references to it's classics as it used to be. The members probably had different influences and imaginations, and they were more into the actual bands of the scene on the side of classic mainstream bands, therefore their approach to black/death doesn't count as ordinary. At female bands it's a returning feature, that they play something quite different what influenced on them, and that ends up in a style that they are not really familiar with. Probably something similar happened to Ancestry, who just exposed the fresh rawness and unleashed the intense aggressive sound of a young band that tried to find it's own way. Their demo "Battle ov the Fierce" was a stunning one partly because of their genuine aspect, and partly because it sounds way more rude how it might be expected.