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Astarte Band Member Maria Kolokouri Battling Leukemia

MariaKolokouriMaria Kolokouri, also known as Tristessa, the bassist/keyboardist from the black metal band Astarte, is battling leukemia.

The band, originally from Athens, Greece, announced in October 2013 that they were getting to work on a new album. Now, that has all been put on hold after Kolokouri’s husband, Nicolas Maiis, announced on Facebook that she is in critical condition as she fights leukemia.

The post was also released on the band’s Facebook page, in which Maiis said:

My name is Nicolas Maiis I am the husband o Maria Kolokouri as you all know as Tristessa.
Unfortunately the fate is hard and the life even harder in our case.
Our beloved Maria she is in critical condition fighting minute by minute for her life a form o leukemia .
We, her family we our beside to her and we are trying to keep her strong,
The people who know Maria they have knowledge of what a strong person she is and that she is a unique human being and always kind to everyone.
As mother she is always at o her son side and always she is standing strong for me to support me.
Now it is the time to stand by her side with our positive energy and say a prayers to any god we may believe or not.
Make a true wish deep down from you hearts so Maria to feel all the good energy and to take courage from your hearts and to have the hope that is needed.
A Miracle said the doctor that is needed ,I don’t know from whom or what just please pray
For one……Maria is needing all the hope of our hearts, I need that, our son need that
Nicolas Maiis and Antonios Nearchos Maiis her son.

Astarte, which formed in September 1995 under the first band name LLOTH, has released five albums since their 1997 demo Dancing in the Dark Lakes of Evil Doomed Dark Years (1998), Black Lotus Records; Rise from Within (2000), Black Lotus; Quod Superius, Sicut Inferius (2002), Black Lotus; Sirens (2004), Avantgarde Music; and Demonized (2007), Avantgarde Music.

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