Screencap from a video showing the band performing live, April 8, 2018 – Youtube/Metal Muse. They hrecently released their latest EP, “Terminal Leeches”, on March 11, 2018. The band formed in late 2015, after Bechara and Mayassi met at a protest and bonded over their shared love of metal music, according to their interview with the National.After failed attempts to form a band with boys, the girls formed one together to make their own group, which grew to become “Slave to Sirens.” According to the National, Mayassi states that the first time they performed live, the audience couldn’t believe it.“They saw us on stage and they didn’t expect that we would produce this kind of sound. They were like, ‘OK, this is a bunch of girls, now let’s see what they can play. Maybe a love song'… It wasn't a love song,” she recounts.Despite Lebanon’s conservative nature, the girls have managed to hold their own well enough as a band that’s both into heavily-stigmatized metal music and overcoming female stereotypes.

Source: Egypt Today April 09, 2018 09:00 UTC