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So female fronted metal is my jam. Your examples have a solid range, but here's some of my picks:
You'll find a ton of female fronted bands in what (I think) is referred to as "scandi-metal) (Sacndinavian Metal).
Otep
If you're willing to go more the punk route, look into the riot grrl genre. Sleater-Kinney is a good starting point.
Birthday Massacre, Within Temptation, Lacuna Coil, Eths, Infected Rain, Amaranthe
Amaranthe's awesome. My workout playlist is mostly them.
Entheos!
Brutus. Stefanie Mannaerts is the lead Singer and drummer. Simultaneously! She is absolutely amazing and has so much power in her Voice. My favorite Band of 2025.
Jinjer, Arch Enemy, Unleash the Archers, spiritbox (and iwabo), Devil Electric
The Warning
Oh dang this is right up my alley.
I posted this on a similar question a few weeks ago. I’ve been down the rabbit hole with these bands lately:
Stitched up heart, New Year’s Day, September mourning,
-chick singer led goth metal bands
Excellent question! Have you tried !gpral@hilariouschos.com the mod there is lovely
Hello... Hope you're hanging in there and taking care of yourself this evening. Sorry for taking so long to respond to this, I meant to get back to this thread sooner.
It's a real pity that I can't even see that community (and a couple of others there) from here. I wish you could convince your friend to open an alt community in more neutral ground. Or try to make some sort of amends with all of the instances that are de-federated with hilariouschaos. There's some big ones de-federated from it, even piefed.social, which I tried the other day.
If you're interested, now that I'm attending to this post, it seems likely that my next fixation on something to categorise and make lists of is going to be this very topic lol. I'll probably only be done in a couple of months from now but if you would like, I could post my results in Women's Stuff (or I could pass it on to you to post, if you prefer). Otherwise if you think it's a better idea, I could post it to gpral from another account, although I wish I could do that without feeling bad about Blåhaj people being blocked off from it.
And, just gonna ping your new account in case you never look at the old one anymore: @LadyButterfly@lazysoci.al
Mate that would be great! We'd love to see your stuff if you do it deffo post it.
Yay, I'm glad you like the idea! As I say it might take time though. And depending on how much, I might split up punk, heavy and general alternative. There's already some good stuff in this thread, stuff that was out when I was going out to clubs and shit but that just never got played anywhere. Apart from the obvious stuff like Arch Enemy and Nightwish. Funny that.
Anyway, at least now my next stint of making lists won't be so pointless.
Great ideas, and dont worry about time. Making lists doesn't sound pointless and nothing that you enjoy is ever a waste of time. Your enjoyment matters
Haha no I've spent a lot of time working on things that ultimately don't matter much. And sometimes get consumed by it to the point of starting to pull all nighters. But I do enjoy it, yup lol.
Hope you're feeling better and thanks for the encouragement!
Have you tried hard techno? Check out Cassie Raptor
Dark Moor with their first 3 albums with Elisa is great.
I only have a passing interest in metal, but I heard about this Indonesian Muslim all-female metal trio (Voice of Baceprot) a while back and was impressed when I watched the videos of them playing. It's trippy to see them wearing hijabs and all while kicking ass playing metal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6v4728NJ7B8
I got kinda (very) overwhelmed by this thread. I was expecting like 5 responses, so you thank you very much for all the suggestions. I have finally made a list from all of this and will be replacing just about my entire music rotation with everything here. Once I find my favourites, I'll probably let you know some time in the future lol.
Thought I might as well drop some names that are already in my collection that I haven't seen mentioned here, for the sake of anyone that might come past here in future. Including stuff that's more on the alternative / hard rock side of things.
General Alternative / Rock:
Old School:
Alternative because off-beat / weird:
Punk:
Hard Rock / Grunge:
Heavy:
Some of this is more punk or pop-punk.
The Gathering. Older but still good
I love Myrkur's stuff. How heavy it is varies widely from album to album, anywhere from straight traditional Danish folk music to the lighter end of black metal, but I like both ends of that spectrum
There's also Feminazgul, who I'm not super keen on but their name is so good that they deserve a mention anyway
Spiritbox and Conquer Divide!
I don't think I've heard of In This Moment or Butcher Babies, I will check them out.
Meanwhile if you're not allergic to melodic BM, I really like Dämonik, example track: https://youtu.be/kRNHUFt8oPs So far they have two singles out and I believe they're working on an album. There is also old demo EP from 2018, but it's a little rough compared to these.
I'll try to check what else I've got that is all female / female fronted. I think there are a few more I like, but can't recall what atm
Burning Witches is good
Spirit Box, Rolo Tomassi, Cellar Darling.
Poppy, more her new music than old. Some people don't like her style but it's not strictly just hard metal.
More garage rock than metal/punk but the Pack AD is a lot of fun.
Synlakross is pretty decent but it's got both male and female vocals .
Castle Rat is a fantastic thrash metal band also (I think they're thrash. All the subgenres get confusing)
Since i haven't seen it here and it's one of my favourite bands: iwrestledabearonce
Drain STH.
Wow, that took me down nostalgia road...