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Inspired by this post, I wanted to make a post asking about your favorite metal bands with women in them and maybe your favorite release from them too.

For me, that'd be Crypta. They're a Brazilian Death Metal band made up of only women. Their Shades of Sorrow album is absolutely incredible with some really mean vocals and great riffing.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Eths, Entheos, Vintersea, Igorr, Diablo Swing Orchestra

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Maria Brink from In This Moment. Love her voice and the music.

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  • Jinjer
  • Ithaca
  • The Anchor
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No ones said spiritbox yet

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I'd recommend Ragana. Excellent black metal duo who happen to be women.

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Smoulder is a great trad/doom band with a female vocalist. Savage Master is a really fun trad band with a female vocalist. Castle Rat is a cool new doom band with a female vocalist.

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Undead corporation

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Most of the bands I would mention have already been listed by others, but I would suggest Ad Infinitum. I love how fast she switches from a clear, beautiful singing voice to a low growl and back.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

First bands that come to my mind are...

  • Asagraum (black metal)
  • blackened nocturn slaughtercult (black metal)
  • messa (doom metal)

Potestas magicum diaboli. First album from asagraum. I remember listening to it over and over. It felt fresh for me at that time and it aged really well.

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Edit - thought of a couple more...

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Adding one more: Battle Beast. Noora Louhimo's voice just remained imprinted in my brain. Can't really pick a favorite release.

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Wargasm for your limp bizkit nu metal riffs without the rapping. Currently putting out quality too

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Castrator is an all-women death metal band that fucking rips everything apart. Merlin has a female singer, vocals are so harsh I listened to it for years before knowing it was a woman.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Cradle of filth

In this moment

Kitty (not so much anymore, was old band)

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

In This Moment has some amazing covers sprinkled throughout their catalogue.

In The Air Tonight (slow burn, just trust) We Will Rock You Call Me

Looks like they covered "Surrender" too, but I havent listend to that one yet.

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Japan has a lot of awesome female metal bands like Nemophila.

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Nightwish, Jinjer, Arch Enemy, Battle Beast comes to my mind. Noora Louhimo is quite good singer.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago
  • 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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

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!

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Can't believe nobody mentioned Nuclear Death. One of the sickest most primitively brutal Death Metal bands. In the same league with Autopsy, in my book. Mental artwork too.

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TL/DR: Elena Siegmanโ€™s 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 wasnโ€™t 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 โ€œIโ€™ve never tried harsh vocals before, but Iโ€™m 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

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I have nothing additional to add, however, since I am a newbie, I need to know how to save this post so I can listen to all of the artists I have not heard before on this list!

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Click on the little star under the title comment to save the whole post, or click on the star under a regular comment to just save that comment! (Assuming you're on a regular browser.)

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

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)
[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Man I thought Without Face was a band lost to time. I love the song "Weird Places".

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Late to the party but my recommendation is Oceans of Slumber

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Ohhh Oceans of Slumber are so good

[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Jinjer is pretty badass. The vocals are top notch in both ends of the spectrum.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I'm surprised I had to scroll this far to see Jinjer! Seriously impressive vocals, and absolutley one of my favorite female metal vocalists.

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Hear, hear!

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If you like Doom Metal you have to listen to Witch Mountain.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

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.

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undead corporation and imperial circus dead decadence

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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‚Ž 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 ่’ผๆœˆใฎๆ‡บๆ‚”่ฉฉ๏ฝžUniversal Nemesis by Yonder Voice. They might have heavier but as I stated earlier, I haven't heard all of their music yet.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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.

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