<   AMBER ASYLUM   >

San Francisco, California, USA
1995?-

Wendy Farina (ex-Towel, also Red Shark, Condor): drum kit and percussion
Kris Force: vocals, guitar, violin
Jackie Gratz: cello
Erica Stolz (also Lost Goat): bass, vocals

partial discography
Looking Glass picture disk 7" (Fireball 1996)
Frozen in Amber full-length (Elfenblut/Misanthropy 1996)
"Avenging and Bright"/"I Have a Bonnet" 7" (Eishaus 1997)
The Natural Philosophy of Love full-length (Release 1997)
Songs of Sex and Death full-length (Release 1999)
The Supernatural Parlor Collection (Release 2000)
at least one track on The World and Everything In It coll (Tursa 1997)
at least one track on Presumed Guilty coll (Misanthropy 1998)

further reading
http://www.amberasylum.com
The band's own website - not so much info, but the photo is nice, and you can join their mailing list if you want to keep up.

okay...
...so Amber Asylum aren't strictly metal. But as Queenie says, "they're definitely not heavy sounding, but they're SO part of the metal scene. and they do that awesome black sabbath cover sans guitar." ("Black Sabbath," on The Supernatural Parlor Collection - laugh at Sabbath's own version if you must, but AA's will raise the hairs on the back of your neck....)