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Japan has a lot of awesome female metal bands like Nemophila.
Lita Ford
Nightwish, Jinjer, Arch Enemy, Battle Beast comes to my mind. Noora Louhimo is quite good singer.
Oh. Nobody mentioned "Rolo Tomassi" yet! One of my all-time favorites. Saw them live, too. A 1.50m petite lead singer with a voice from Hell. Love them so hard!
- Coven
- Girlschool
- Early Bolt Thrower
- Boris
- Corrupted had an incredible female singer some years ago
Just off the top of my head, probably forgot a lot of great bands.
Julie Christmas is a personal favorite.
The Battle of Mice records are harrowing (content warning for DV). Made Out of Babies was incredible as well. Same for her work with Cult of Luna. Some really, really unique vocals there.
My personal favorite is the Spylacopa Self Titled record. That album was a great blending of styles and guest artists, but Julie's work stands out.
TL/DR: Elena Siegmanโs vocals for the Call of Duty: Zombies soundtracks are some of my favorite metal vocals ever.
Not that Call of Duty needs more publicity obviously, but I love the story of how Kevin Sherwood and Elena Siegman got to be the names they are today behind the CoD: Zombies metal soundtrack.
Basically they were both audio engineers working on CoD: World at War and when it was decided (late into crunch time) that Zombies would be a featured bonus mode in the game, the directors wanted to add musical easter eggs into each of the maps, both the one planned for release and the 3 expansions.
Sherwood and Siegman got to work on writing the music and recording vocals respectively, but it wasnโt until they were working on the 3rd song that Sherwood decided they really ought to have some harsh, metal vocals in their metal soundtrack. He asked Siegman how they could manage that and if they would need distortion, and Siegman was like โIโve never tried harsh vocals before, but Iโm game.โ
Thus, Beauty of Annihilation was born. Fast forward to later games and Siegman is a fan favorite element of the CoDZ series. My personal favorites are BoA, Coming Home, and Pareidolia
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Number 1 would have to be:
- Triosphere (prog/power?). Ida is utterly amazing.
Some others I didn't see in this thread are:
- Ebony Ark (prog/power)
- To Mera (prog)
- Without Face (prog/goth metal?)
- Mystik (speed)
Jinjer is pretty badass. The vocals are top notch in both ends of the spectrum.
Singers:
Amanda Somerville (Trillum, Exit Eden, Kiske/Somerville)
Marcela Bovio (Stream of Passion, Mayan, Dark horse/White horse)
Bands:
Kobra and the Lotus - Heavy Rock
Stream of Passion - Progressive Metal
Tardigrade Inferno - Cabaret Metal
Volturian - Symphonic/Pop Metal
Year of the Cobra! A husband/wife stoner/doom distorted bass/drums duo. They just came out with their 3rd album last month. Surprisingly great for only having two members.
If you like Doom Metal you have to listen to Witch Mountain.
Outside of some other bands that other users have already mentioned, one band I'm aware of is a Swedish metal band called All Ends. It's been a while since I've listened to them but I know about them because the lead singer worked with Crush 40 for the final boss theme from Sonic and the Black Knight.
There are some other bands that I'm going to mention but they don't exclusively make metal (or at least I think, I haven't heard all of their music yet). And yes, they are all bands who make remixes of music from the Touhou games, which their is probably more artists I could mention but I have either forgotten them or just haven't listened to them yet.
The Other Flower, I almost forgot about this artist, Karma is great example of their music.
Akatsuki Records, Bloody Devotion is a great example of their music.
Undead Corporation, The Dream Of A Rabbit Singing In The Night is a good example of their music but I know that they do have music that is much "heavier".
Get In The Ring, while the title says it's "rock" despite the fact that it's clearly metal, ็ฅญ็ is a good example of their music.
Sound Holic, because I don't use Spotify anymore, I have forgotten what the best example would be. The song I've been listening to the most that is at least partially metal is Grip & Break down.
A-One, while I know that they are primarily a eurobeat artist, they often mix other genres into their music. An example of a song that mixes metal with eurobeat is God Only knows, which is from Initial D the Arcade (2021).
There is one more that I want to mention but I don't know if the example I have is "heavy" enough to be considered metal or if it's just "orchestral rock". It's ่ผๆใฎๆบๆ่ฉฉ๏ฝUniversal Nemesis by Yonder Voice. They might have heavier but as I stated earlier, I haven't heard all of their music yet.
I'll just post one since I've not seen it here yet. Sorry If I missed it.
Future Static, Roach Queen is a top song
Such a small woman with a massive voice. I'd never heard of them until I was watching Electric Call Boy in Perth Australia and they were one of the openers.
Spiritbox
Jinjer
Make Them Suffer
Arch Enemy
Lucrecia
Poppy
Within Temptation
Babymetal
Harper
Those are the ones I listen to, in no particular order
undead corporation and imperial circus dead decadence
Symphonic epic folk metal with female singers is my jams
- Grai - Russian pagan / folk metal
- Folterkammer - Operatic / symphonic black metal
- Draconian - Swedish doom / goth metal
- Messa - Scarlet Doom metal
- Wardruna - Nordic folk metal
In the realm of epic/symphonic metal you probably can't throw a stone without hitting an amazing female vocalist. Simone Simons from Epica, Nightwish's Floor Jansen, Sharon den Adel (Within Temptation), and Zora Cock for Blackbrariar are the first that come to mind.
For folk metal there's Eluveitie with two members and Folkstone with I think one.
Very worth mentioning is Alyssa and her harsh vocals, from Arch Enemy.
While she's not been a member in a long while, I have to mention Vibeke Stene as the vocalist from Tristania, maybe my all time favorite.
For all female bands there's Girlschool, and you could say Babymetal, even if they have more members playing with them I don't know how permanent they are.
Others that I know of but haven't really listened much by would be Jinjer and Halestorm.
That's what I can think of off the top of my head, but there's so much more.
Edit: I almost forgot but I have to add: Amy Lee from Evanescence and Cristina Scabbia from Lacuna Coil.
Arch Enemy fucking rocks. Angela and Alyssa are both badass and are probably my first time seeing a woman do harsh vocals like that.
Lmfao Arch Enemy was the first band that made me go "woah wait that's a woman?"
Babymetal comes to mind, but I also want to shout out Sandra Nasiฤ of the Guano Apes for her appearance on Apocalyptica's Path Vol. 2. Also highschool me would kill me if I didn't mention Nightwish. Tarja Turenen was a formative part of my music taste, and 10th man Down, Kinslayer, Dead Gardens, and Creek Mary's Blood all still sit in my favorites list
Sandra Nasiฤ of the Guano Apes for her appearance on Apocalypticaโs Path Vol. 2.
This song came to mind for me too. Cult is Apocalyptica's best album, but that song basically ruined my ability to enjoy it as it was made because putting it on straight-up I'm immediately disappointed by the lack of vocals in track 1.
There was another track from that album that they reworked to add a guest vocalist to, I think track 8, but that one didn't hit me as an improvement over the original.
Delain (Dutch, started as a side project from one of the Within Temptation members)
Flyleaf
Within Temptation (also Dutch)
Amaranthe
Within Temptation, Lacuna Coil. Does Blackmore's Night count? Actually, I don't know if any of these technically count as metal. But I like them anyway.
UNLEASH THE ARCHERS. By far my favorite band.
Way too far down. Saw them in Charlotte last year with Powerwolf, my favorite band lol. Phantoma is just such a good album front to back
Their last three albums have all been amazing. I saw them live a couple of years ago, and they have such an incredible stage presence simply due to the amount of skill and talent they all have.
Some of my favorites are:
Delain (who I'm seeing live tonight!)
Nightwish
Xandria
Epica
Jinjer
Arch Enemy
The Agonist
Crypta
Blackbriar
Cellar Darling
Butcher Babies
Spiritbox
Eleine
In This Moment
Nervosa
Frantic Amber
Within Temptation
Infected Rain
Kittie was a favorite of mine back in high school. Haven't listened in a while but I know what I'm listening to today
Came here to say Kittie. New album is fucking TIGHT
Feminazgul and Oathbreaker
Otep and Kittie are awesome.
Oh man, right now it's Spirit Box, the Warning, Castle Rat, Crypta, Lizzies, and of course Unleash the Archers. Eleine can't be forgotten, even though they're not in heavy rotation for me. Kittie is in that same range where their most recent album is just old enough that it's fallen out of heavy rotation for me
If you wanna step to more of a hard rock end of things, Halestorm is awesome.
If you consider Linkin Park in the same category, Emily has been killing it (but any asshat that whines at me about that is just getting blocked because it was a stupid fucking thing to begin with), so they would deserve a mention even though they aren't historically a female fronted band, and folks love to argue about them being metal at all.
Going back, Lita Ford rode the line between hard rock and metal, as did Joan Jett. Both from the Runaways which was the all girl hard rock band. Vixen may have been better barely hard rock, but they deserve more respect than they get.
That's just the stuff that's in my main playlist of harder rock and metal right now. There's a ton of great bands out there that are woman led.
And hell, you can't really talk about that without at least giving a nod to Doro Pesch, and even Wendy O. They stand out among some of the earlier examples
But, right now, there's so many good to great bands that are female led, or even all women. It's an embarrassment of riches.
There's a ton of great women in metal, I'll drop two.
Mares of Thrace, Calgary AB based sludge/post/hardcore 2 piece, guitarist/vocalist is part of the original lineup, it's heavy and catchy.
I really like Hulder, black metal solo project, some of her early demos are amazing, this version of Into The Crypt of Rays comes to mind, got a wall flag of the art from this in my office.
The drummer from Maximum The Hormone has some awesome vocals. I can't find a clean video for this song, but you can skip to 3m40s to see her sing and drum https://youtu.be/rhCdOXGehSg
Sorry if this doesn't qualify as metal. It's pretty mixed.
Acid King
Witch Mountain
SubRosa
Bloody Panda
Couch Slut (more hardcore/noise)
In This Moment
I used to love them when I was little, then forgot about them for a decade. They've only improved over time.
Stolen Babies is a long time favorite too, I love Dominique Persi
Theatres des Vampires is also fun
The Birthday Massacre of course
Some faves of mine I haven't seen mentioned yet:
- Castrator (all-female band, death metal)
- Nervosa (all-female, thrash)
- Cerebral Bore (brutal death metal, slammy)
- Abnormality (tech death)
- Walls of Jericho (metalcore)
elveitie: the call of the mountains
After my teenage years it's been very rare for me to dig into a band deeply enough to learn anything about their members, so the easiest examples are all going to be women doing clean vocals, which is the one time you can (usually) explicitly tell the difference just by listening. Some of my favorite examples are Liv Kristine's work in Theatre of Tragedy, Tarja-era Nightwish, the first Stolen Babies album, and Sirenia's first two albums along with all of Tristania's discography pre-Rubicon.
I have two examples that immediately come to mind outside clean vocals:
Samantha Escarbe is the guitarist for Virgin Black and my understanding is she essentially splits the songwriting load with Rowan London. The Requiem stuff I still need to give more listens, but I think the first two albums are absolutely spectacular music. In "Museum of Iscariot" she does one of my favorite guitar solos I've ever heard.
Angela Gossow's vocals on Arch Enemy's "Wages of Sin" album are some of the absolute best in metal. I live for that shit. I never really got into anything else Arch Enemy did though.