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I really like Nao from Maximum the Hormone, a Japanese metal band.

Great drummer, great voice, and she is hilarious. Her banter with Daisuke on their radio show they used to host was god damn hilarious.

Arkona - the best folk metal Hulder - great black metal

I’ll be seeing Arkona again in < two weeks!

I’d like to recommend the 2 plasmatics albums; “Coup d’Eta” and “Maggots: the record”.

Maybe not exactly what people are here for but i’d be remiss if I didn’t mention these amazingly heavy albums.

Maria Brink and In This Moment

In addition to the bands already listed I wanted to add:

Burning Witches is an all female Swiss heavy/power metal band. I found them while listening to Dio covers.

Frozen Crown is a female fronted Italian Power Metal band.

Volturian is a female fronted Italian symphonic metal band.

Recently, Oceans Of Slumber, great combination of beauty and brutality

I also discoverd a few months back Haydee Irizarry from Aversed and Carnivora, but I can't find any recent stuff with her (at least in metal) which is sad since she seems to be a talented vocalist and musician

But also a good bunch of bands : Jinjer, Kittie, ETHS, Crypta, Stolen Babies, anything with Anneke van Giersbergen

I'm sure I'm forgetting a lot since I only thought about vocalists (Gorod, for example, had a beast of a female drummer on their early albums)

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.

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!

Cradle of filth

In this moment

Kitty (not so much anymore, was old band)

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

Edit - thought of a couple more...

• Black Moth - Blackbirds Fall
• Vodun - Mawu

Japan has a lot of awesome female metal bands like Nemophila.

Destiny Potato

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.

Adding one more: Battle Beast. Noora Louhimo's voice just remained imprinted in my brain. Can't really pick a favorite release.

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.

Daedric.

The coop with Dal Av is amazing!

• Jinjer
• Ithaca
• The Anchor

The lead singer can’t sing anymore so they broke up. But Unsun was great.

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

Hmm, I always have a hard time picking favorites, but I've always enjoyed Halestorm! Pretty sure "can u see me in the dark?" has been pinned in the number one spot of my On Repeat playlist on Spotify for a couple of months now... Lzzy's vocals are fantastic in it!

Also, a couple of years ago Alex Reade joined Make Them Suffer, and I've been enjoying their latest album (also called Make Them Suffer), a few of the tracks from that album (Epitaph, Oscillator, Weaponized, and Small Town Syndrome) have also coincidentally been stuck in my On Repeat playlist for a while.

Dark Castle - Surrender to All Life Beyond Form

Female-fronted stoner/sludge doom.

Saw them open for the almighty YOB back in 2011. Stevie Floyd is a badass.

I always liked this Faye Wong song. Not hard enough to be metal, but I think it's still edgy and kind of haunting.

After my teenage years it's been very rare for me to dig into a band deeply enough to learn anything about their members, so the easiest examples are all going to be women doing clean vocals, which is the one time you can (usually) explicitly tell the difference just by listening. Some of my favorite examples are Liv Kristine's work in Theatre of Tragedy, Tarja-era Nightwish, the first Stolen Babies album, and Sirenia's first two albums along with all of Tristania's discography pre-Rubicon.

I have two examples that immediately come to mind outside clean vocals:

Samantha Escarbe is the guitarist for Virgin Black and my understanding is she essentially splits the songwriting load with Rowan London. The Requiem stuff I still need to give more listens, but I think the first two albums are absolutely spectacular music. In "Museum of Iscariot" she does one of my favorite guitar solos I've ever heard.

Angela Gossow's vocals on Arch Enemy's "Wages of Sin" album are some of the absolute best in metal. I live for that shit. I never really got into anything else Arch Enemy did though.

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!

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.

I saw the "Women in Metal" title and thought this would be a thread about women in trade jobs (i.e. metalworking).

No ones said spiritbox yet

Jinjer.

Can't believe nobody mentioned Nuclear Death. One of the sickest most primitively brutal Death Metal bands. In the same league with Autopsy, in my book. Mental artwork too.