Julie Christmas crashed back onto the avant-metal scene with a vengeance this year. Weaponising banshee howls, jagged distortion and sludgy vitriol, Ridiculous And Full Of Blood wasn’t for the faint of heart. “I’m going for high trauma,” she smirks. “You’re leaving with at least one Band-Aid.”
Julie made her name as frontwoman of New York noise rockers Made Out Of Babies in the 00s, has also sung for post-metallers Battle Of Mice and post-prog collective Spylacopa, and released solo record The Bad Wife in 2010. While she reared her head in 2016 to work on Cult Of Luna’s seventh album, Mariner, her return this year came as quite the surprise.
