Full Name: Christina Kjær. No, it's not... It's not 'Kuh-djer'. It's more like... Well, you see, in Danish, the j is more of a 'y', and the æ is kind of... And you don't quite, uh, with the R, you... Yeah, Christina's had this conversation a lot. She doesn't go by Chris or Tina or anything like that-- it's not how her name would be abbreviated in Danish, so it just sounds weird.

Stage Name: Nah, she's not about that.

Age: Twenty nine, born 4 December, 1980.

Appearance: Christina clocks in at a very modest 5'1, a tad bit on the chubby side of things but more full-figured than heavy; she's got a handful of tattoos here and there across her pale skin, a couple of band logos, some typical artsy bullshit, one on her arm that she got covered up because, according to her, 'sneaking your way around the age limits for tattoos is a bad idea'. She keeps her dark brown hair shorn down to wiry bristles, baring her high cheekbones, thin lips, and small, slightly upturned nose; her slender, keen eyes are moss green, and as with her lips, they're very expressive. She's not very into dressing the part of a metal musician, so you'll mostly find her kicking it in simple, comfortable clothes-- sweaters, band shirts, jeans, sneakers, the like-- though she keeps more elegant fare around for when she feels like being fancy, which is pretty much never.

Role: Lonesome Matsuzaka's main character and drummer for Sturm.

Musical Style: Christina loves blastbeats. I mean, she fucking loves blastbeats. She's written at least three letters to her state's congresspeople demanding her legal right to marry blastbeats, and though she hasn't made much headway on that front, it hasn't stopped her from making liberal use of them in her playing. Granted, the style of music Sturm plays isn't the most blast-heavy form of death metal round (though there is a running joke in the band that Christina will try to convince them to let her blastbeat over pretty much every riff, no matter how appropriate), so she tries to keep things varied. Her drumming is principally distinguished by frequent rapid fills, quick shifts in style and beat, and plain intensity (she really beats the crap out of her kit). Her primary influences include Immolation's Craig Smilowski, Vomitory's Tobben Gustafsson, and Monstrosity's Lee Harrison.

Over the past year, she's also begun to actively work at honing her vocals into working order; she's still improving, so they're a little lacking in power at the moment, but they manifest in the form of a low, guttural growl.

Instruments: Suffice it to say, Christina's drum kit is far from the most garish set you've ever seen. It's a fairly simple six piece kit with a couple of rides, a couple of crashes, a beat up china. She's got this old set of windchimes she won on a bet off this really weird Irish drummer dude, but she has the good sense not to use it in Sturm.

Personality: Christina is nothing if not easygoing to a fault-- it's easy to assume she's just an airhead, but more accurately, she simply has a 'don't sweat the small stuff' approach to life. It's just that 'the small stuff' is pretty much everything: she doesn't seem to take anything seriously and doesn't seem to want to, either. She has a mischievous streak about her-- she seems to take a certain languid pleasure in teasing or pranking, albeit always in moderation-- and enjoys the kind of back and forth banter that characterises a shared sense of humour. On the whole, she's friendly, laidback, just a tad impish in her humour and gentle ribbing, but one gets the distinct impression that she's not the sort who likes to be anchored for very long-- not to a beat, a band, or a person.

Biography: Christina grew up in a small town not far from Århus, and from the very beginning... Well, she just didn't seem to really care much. She spent most of her 'academic career', such as it was, drinking and smoking with her friends, preferred jamming the latest Iniquity record to studying, and answered any question of her post-schooling plans with a lackadaisical shrug, a lopsided smile, and a 'I don't know, maybe I'll just drum my way through life, eh?'

Which, of course, ended up being exactly what she did: after all, drumming was the one thing she'd ever really cared to be good at, and despite a surprisingly good head on her shoulders, truancy and general apathy had left her with academic marks lower than Devourment's tuning. She bummed around Jylland for a while playing with this or that band before deciding she didn't fancy her opportunities as a metal drummer in Denmark; she already spoke fluent English (as nearly all Danes these days do) and most of her favourite bands were from the States, so as far as she was concerned, uprooting herself and heading Stateside was no trouble at all. After all, she'd never been-- and still isn't-- the sort of person to let herself be tied down too long.

In the United States, Christina flourished; with no family, no school, no obligations outside the various minimum wage jobs she took to eke out a living, she committed all of herself to her drumming, and she was pretty much always at work with one band or another, doing session work, touring, drifting into and drifting out of just about every extreme metal band in the area. Her meanderings eventually led her to Sturm, a melodic death metal band which was, Christina concluded, direly in need of more blast beats. As such, she considered it a form of community service that she joined the band to rectify that lack, and she's been behind the kit with them ever since.