• Calva Louise - Third Class Citizen
• Heriot - Coalescence
• Capra - The Locust Preacher
• Ex People - Dread
• Cassyette - BOOM

Nightwish.

Favorite release: Once (https://tidal.com/album/186100020?u)

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

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.

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, 祭炎 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 蒼月の懺悔詩～Universal 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.

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

Late to the party but my recommendation is Oceans of Slumber

undead corporation and imperial circus dead decadence

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

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

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!

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.