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.
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.
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.
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!
Lmfao Arch Enemy was the first band that made me go “woah wait that’s a woman?”
Angela Gossow was a beast, glad they found a very suitable replacement when she left.
Jinjer is pretty badass. The vocals are top notch in both ends of the spectrum.
Babymetal comes to mind, but I also want to shout out Sandra Nasić 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 Nasić of the Guano Apes for her appearance on Apocalyptica’s 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.
Feminazgul and Oathbreaker
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
Delain (Dutch, started as a side project from one of the Within Temptation members)
Flyleaf
Within Temptation (also Dutch)
Amaranthe
Otep and Kittie are awesome.
I discovered Brutus a few weeks ago. Stefanie Mannaerts is the vocalist and plays the drums simultaneously. The power in her voice while smashing the hell out of her drums… incredible. I was blown away when I saw a Video of her performance and realized it. What Have We Done is probably my favorite.
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.
Arch Enemy is another one.
Doomsday Machine (https://tidal.com/album/51971329?u) great album.
My bits:
Amaranthe
Angtoria
Cinnamon Babe
Dorothy
Nightwish
Venus 5
TL/DR: Elena Siegman’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 wasn’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 “I’ve never tried harsh vocals before, but I’m game.”
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
Visions Of Atlantis has two singers, male and female, with the female being the lead. I forget their names, and I know a quick google search would tell me, but I’m having trouble balancing this message and the steering wheel, plus this bowl of soup is REALLY hot.
I saw Visions open for Korpiklaani last May and quickly fell in love with them. Illumishade also opened, another band with a female vocalist.
That’s awesome, did they play Master The Hurricane? That song makes me speed in parking lots.
First song in the setlist.
If you like Doom Metal you have to listen to Witch Mountain.
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
