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.
Stabbing!
- Jinjer
- Ithaca
- The Anchor
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.
- Calva Louise - Third Class Citizen
- Heriot - Coalescence
- Capra - The Locust Preacher
- Ex People - Dread
- Cassyette - BOOM
Wargasm for your limp bizkit nu metal riffs without the rapping. Currently putting out quality too
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.
Cradle of filth
In this moment
Kitty (not so much anymore, was old band)
Japan has a lot of awesome female metal bands like Nemophila.
Nightwish, Jinjer, Arch Enemy, Battle Beast comes to my mind. Noora Louhimo is quite good singer.
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!
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.
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
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!
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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)
Man I thought Without Face was a band lost to time. I love the song “Weird Places”.
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
