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.

  • @nn__00@lemm.ee
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    7 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.

  • @Leastdoctor@lemmy.ml
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    27 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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    17 days ago

    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.

  • @WaffleStomper@lemmy.world
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    17 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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    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.

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      78 days ago

      Arch Enemy fucking rocks. Angela and Alyssa are both badass and are probably my first time seeing a woman do harsh vocals like that.

      • thisisbutaname
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        48 days ago

        Angela Gossow was a beast, glad they found a very suitable replacement when she left.

    • @AccountMaker@slrpnk.net
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      58 days ago

      I’d add Adrienne Cowan from Seven Spires and Melissa Bonny from Ad Infinitum to that list. But, as you said, in symphonic metal you’d be hard pressed to find a band without an amazing female vocalist.

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        27 days ago

        Adrienne Cowan from Seven Spires and Melissa Bonny from Ad Infinitum

        Saw them last year with Kamelot, it was an amazing show. I didn’t know them before but I’m a fan now!