Women Metalheads Rise Up

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This thread is just a place for hopefully other women who are naturally into metal to gather. We are extremely rare. But nothing against men posting good metal here.

Cool. Nothing against men making good metal either. Some of my favorite metal bands are scrotes, after all.

 

[Ahriman]

OK, let's try this again and sorry.

God, I saw Ex Deo and Nile live in Louisville and oof I just can't say enough good about it.

I saw Nile back when Dallas was still in the band, "Unas" was the one track I wanted them to play live but they didn't... left kinda blue balled, but otherwise they absolutely crushed it.

Come to think of it - my favorite Death Metal bands (Nile and Dying Fetus) are from NC.

Then there's Poland.

Back on topic, Candace from Walls of Jericho sounds amazing.

There's also Sumo Cyco... not really my thing, they're an alright band.

I should really give Doro a chance, this is her only song I know.

 

[DoomsdayElite]

I'm a dude. But here's some DNS. I haven't heard many female black metal vocalists but they're pretty adept, I think, because their voices are naturally higher and fit well with the shrieking style.

 

[CoolFool]

When it comes to my music tastes, I like pretty much anything that is rock or metal. Soft rock, hard rock, alternative, screamo, heavy metal, nu metal, metalcore, progressive metal, etc. Heck, I even like some death metal, tho tbh most of that stuff is way too hard for me. If I had to pick on genre over the other, I would pick nu metal, idk why, I just really love that genre and I'm really excited that it's making a resurgence lately.

I'm sure I could post some old school nu metal here and you guys would already know about it, so I'm gonna post some new(ish) stuff. For anyone that's in a nu metal mood and likes stuff like KoRn, I've gotten into Chaoseum (I can never remember how to spell their freaking band name):

I'm really into Bad Omens, pretty sure they fall under nu metalcore. I don't care what genre they are, I just know they rock. Recently they've gotten more popular with their new mainstream hits, which are okay, but I like their stuff that isn't on the radio:

Spiritbox, progressive metal. I like their music, though the band is kind of woke and I'm still not convinced the lead singer isn't a troon tbh. I hope she isn't because she has amazing vocals and we need more women in the field. She was set to tour with Falling in Reverse but because of her stupid woke fanbase she had to cancel since the lead singer of Falling In Reverse said some transphobic things (Read: had mild criticism). Sucks because that tour would have brought the band a lot more fans.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

Saviour Machine

Fuck yeah. Great band.

Eric Clayton has a new band he's formed since surviving cancer. Think it's called Eric Clayton and the Nine. Haven't kept up with his work in a long time, so no idea if it's good.

 

[Onni Kalsarikännit]

To put the focus on some women in some bands contributing by not doing vocals (or at least not doing only vocals).

ELECTRIC WIZARD with Liz Buckingham on the guitar for 20 years now. One of my all time favorite bands. 10/10 Black Sabbath worship while standing on their own legs and pushing the genre of Stoner/Doom Metal.

One of my personal top 10 albums of all time:

BOLT THROWER with Jo Bench on the bass for over 20 years until the band ended. Bass players often get overlooked for their contribution to a band's music but a ripping, crushing bass is like the cherry on the top of an ice cream - and there's a reason the BT guys stuck with Jo for the whole time of the band's existence.

Then there is Marianne aka LSK who contributed to bands like ANTAEUS, HELL MILITIA and SECRETS OF THE MOON (when SOTM where good). Sadly she ended her own life 10 years ago but she always was a blast to hang around. Lots of good memories.

The "Blood Libels" album of ANTAEUS where she played bass guitar.

"Privilegivm" album of SOTM where she played bass guitar.

BLACK KNIFE from USA and who play a neat mix of Black/Thrash Metal Punk have a lady behind the bass. Released an ass kicking album this year.

THE GREAT KAT hasn't been mentioned so far (or I missed) it and kicked ass already back in the late 80s.

THE OATH is a two-women-piece band and play a mix of Heavy/traditional Doom Metal and Hard Rock.
Their only album:

Linnea plays guitar here but maybe you know her from BEASTMILK/GRAVE PLEASURES and her own band MAGGOT HEART although these bands aren't really Metal bands and play more post-punk/post-rock.

edit: spelling

 

[Onni Kalsarikännit]

Sorry for double posting but I had to split it up as I can't post more than 10 media links. To continue from my post before:

Johanna who did vocals for THE OATH started a new band after The Oath broke up, Lucifer, who play some good mix of Heavy and Doom Metal. Nicke, Johanna's husband, from Entombed/Nihilist/Hellacopters is on board too.

Same for Linus from VOJD btw. Great Swedish Heavy Metal/Rock.

Edit: Sent the post to early.

HAEMORRHAGE from Spain have a lady on guitar duty, for nearly 30 years now as she joined the band in 94. Great Goregrind, one of my all time favorites in this genre.

 

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I saw Nile back when Dallas was still in the band, "Unas" was the one track I wanted them to play live but they didn't... left kinda blue balled, but otherwise they absolutely crushed it.

Come to think of it - my favorite Death Metal bands (Nile and Dying Fetus) are from NC.

Nile are from SC, Greenville I believe. Unas got, and still gets, steady radio play here on the college station at WKNC in Raleigh during metal hours. Got nothing but love for Nile, and not just because they are fellow Carolinians. Dying Fetus aren't NC either. One of the members of Incantation is in Greensboro now though, and put on a festival a couple of times with an amazing lineup. Shame I never went. Fun NC metal fact. the vocalist for Mythic, who I posted above, moved to NC/SC eventually. She married the vocalist for ANTiSEEN, one of the greatest bands from North Carolina in my opinion, for a while. She put out some black metal stuff under the band Demonic Christ.

Some more all female death metal.

edit: Glad to see some good shit above me. I was gonna post Lucifer, got beaten. I had the privilege of seeing Bolt Thrower twice at Maryland Death Fest one year. One of the Euro bands couldn't make it due to visa issues, so Bolt Thrower played their set. Seeing When Cannons fade live is awesome. They ride out the ending riff and fade it out.

 

[AmberHeardSupporter]

What’s your guys band that you’ve tried hard to listen to but couldnt like? I tried so hard to listen to Cattle Decapitation but I just cannot for the life of me get into them

 

[Blobby's Murder Knife]

What’s your guys band that you’ve tried hard to listen to but couldnt like? I tried so hard to listen to Cattle Decapitation but I just cannot for the life of me get into them

Oh there are probably some that particularly my ex had a hardon for - he was way more into grindcore than I was. But uh there was band of the genre I really liked - Japanische Kampfhorespiele. Means something like Japanese War Records or Radio Plays or something like that. I really don't think there is any direct English translation.

This will never ever stop being my favorite song by them. It is just calling a customer service line in German.

I am connecting you with a customer service agent
Have a bit of patience
Please give me your customer number
What is this about
What?
What again?

 

[Ahriman]

What’s your guys band that you’ve tried hard to listen to but couldnt like? I tried so hard to listen to Cattle Decapitation but I just cannot for the life of me get into them

Can't think of any at the moment, but I realize that I've never been into Cattle Decapitation, or most -core bands in general. They never "clicked" with me.

 

[RichardMongler]

If you want something very different, check out the Welsh NWOBHM band Y Diawled:

One of the few Metal bands to perform in the native Cymraeg.

What’s your guys band that you’ve tried hard to listen to but couldnt like?

99% of Tech Death. Holy shit, does that genre suck mightily. I don't care that the riffage takes a lot of work to exhaustively compose and perform. If the end result is an inharmonious mess, then keep the musical theorycel shit to yourself. It's not that I dislike all the bands. Atheist, Death, Pestilence, Suffocation, Gorguts and Nocturnus are all fine, but Cryptopsy, Cynic and Nile can all suck a dick. Tech Thrash, on the other hand, is great. That stuff is criminally underappreciated in comparison to the heinously overrated Tech Death.

Slam Death sucks mightily, too. Death Metal for retarded wiggers who jam on that one riff from Suffocation.

Drone Metal is another genre that seems cool on paper but sucks in execution. I want my Metal to be full of life, not be defined by dull and plodding riffs that create heavy soundscapes that ultimately build to nothing. Funeral Doom suffers from the same problem, but isn't nearly as bad as Drone Metal.

Hate to be a massive contrarian ITT, but I couldn't get into Electric Wizard. While some of their music is good (the self-titled being my most liked album of theirs), nothing ever stood out to me beyond their extremely crunchy guitar tone. Dopethrone is one of those classic albums I never truly got. The riffs are largely unmemorable and the album quickly blurs into one sonic mass of distorted guitars.

THE GREAT KAT hasn't been mentioned so far (or I missed) it and kicked ass already back in the late 80s.

Ah, The Great Kat. One of the most polarizing figures in all of Metal. You will either love her or hate her. Absolutely no in-between. Here she is on the Morton Downey Jr. show pulling a much milder tamer version of an @AmberHeardSupporter post in real life:

 

[Triple Flutz]

What’s your guys band that you’ve tried hard to listen to but couldnt like? I tried so hard to listen to Cattle Decapitation but I just cannot for the life of me get into them

Most black metal, honestly. I feel like I have auditory-specific autism where so many particular sounds and tones just bother me for no reason, and a lot of the songs I was recommended were just never going to work for me. Bathory is an exception and I can think of a few more, but it's generally not to my taste. People tend to recommend Mayhem and Burzum a lot when you're into metal, but it never worked for me and I thought I just hated Varg Vikernes' voice, but then I heard Den Store Søvn, loved it and his voice texture, and realized this just isn't the subtype I'm interested in.
For a specific band, I think Slayer sucks other than the opening Raining Blood riff and I have tried. As you can tell I'm a pretty basic bitch metal lover, but it's a rarity where I am to even know someone who likes any metal at all so I saw this thread and wanted to contribute if only to talk about how much I love Iron Maiden for once and have someone know what the fuck I'm going on about. I have made a few discoveries in this thread, which is cool. Thanks OP for making it.

 

[AmberHeardSupporter]

Can't think of any at the moment, but I realize that I've never been into Cattle Decapitation, or most -core bands in general. They never "clicked" with me.

I like some -core bands. I grew up on midwestern emo so I kinda love that angsty metalcore shit

99% of Tech Death. Holy shit, does that genre suck mightily. I don't care that the riffage takes a lot of work to exhaustively compose and perform. If the end result is an inharmonious mess, then keep the musical theorycel shit to yourself. It's not that I dislike all the bands. Atheist, Death, Pestilence, Suffocation, Gorguts and Nocturnus are all fine, but Cryptopsy, Cynic and Nile can all suck a dick. Tech Thrash, on the other hand, is great. That stuff is criminally underappreciated in comparison to the heinously overrated Tech Death.

i mean, death is unironically one of the greatest death metal bands of all time if not THE greatest. Chuck Schuldiner practically invented the whole genre and is one of the best metal guitarists ever. Suffocation and Gorguts are also good bands. Do you like Necrophagist

Hate to be a massive contrarian ITT, but I couldn't get into Electric Wizard. While some of their music is good (the self-titled being my most liked album of theirs), nothing ever stood out to me beyond their extremely crunchy guitar tone. Dopethrone is one of those classic albums I never truly got. The riffs are largely unmemorable and the album quickly blurs into one sonic mass of distorted guitars.

your descriptions about music are so well thought out and illustrious it sounds like a legit review on a actual website. I’ll admit I’m not much of a genre autist and I can’t tell the difference between all that shit when it gets deeper than standard black, death, thrash, power, nu, gothic, and hair metal.

Ah, The Great Kat. One of the most polarizing figures in all of Metal. You will either love her or hate her. Absolutely no in-between. Here she is on the Morton Downey Jr. show pulling a much milder tamer version of an @AmberHeardSupporter post in real life:

Holy shit I didn’t know Kat was so based lmao I never looked imto her because way way back when I was younger I was hanging out with a bunch of older metalheads and they were all bitching about her and calling her an asshole and I just assumed it was true. She wasn’t a bitch she was just a badass who spoke her mind freely. I love women so much. Mikael Akerfeldt also called her hot

Most black metal, honestly. I feel like I have auditory-specific autism where so many particular sounds and tones just bother me for no reason, and a lot of the songs I was recommended were just never going to work for me.

absolutely lol black and power metal are my two least favorite genres of metal idc if it’s angry or violent music it’s still supposed to sound good and I don’t like that trve black metal sounds like it was recorded underwater through an 80s boombox

Bathory is an exception and I can think of a few more, but it's generally not to my taste. People tend to recommend Mayhem and Burzum a lot when you're into metal, but it never worked for me and I thought I just hated Varg Vikernes' voice, but then I heard Den Store Søvn, loved it and his voice texture, and realized this just isn't the subtype I'm interested in.

yeah i hate to be a posee but I tried so hard with Mayhem I just can’t force myself to like it. For me, my black metal exception is Behemoth, Septicflesh and whatever the fuck you’d classify Opeth as

For a specific band, I think Slayer sucks other than the opening Raining Blood riff

I’m truly disgusted by this abhorrent comment

 

[RichardMongler]

Necrophagist

nod really DDDDDD

Tech Death is the definition of wank. It's even worse than Prog Metal which already suffers from overindulgent musicians.

She wasn’t a bitch she was just a badass who spoke her mind freely

It was more her "I DESERVE TO BE WORSHIPPED! I WENT TO JUILLIARD!" attitude along with music they greatly stressed technicality over substance. She also has a poor tendency to obnoxiously promote herself by denigrating other more accomplished musicians especially Yngwie Malmsteen. That all being said, I'd rather listen to Kat's worst than most of Tech Death's supposed best. She largely exists within her own bubble and doesn't interact much with the greater world of Metal.

 

[vomitusdeux]

Fuckin classic.

 

[Onni Kalsarikännit]

long post so I'm going to spoiler most of it so it's easier to scroll over

Japanische Kampfhorespiele. Means something like Japanese War Records or Radio Plays or something like that.

Spoiler: German language

The exact name is "Japanische Kampfhörspiele". You Anglos don't have the ä, ö and ü. You are pretty close with the translation tho.

Japanisch = Japanese
"Kampfhörspiele" consists of two nouns. The German language basically allows to add noun after noun after noun endlessly and still making sense although it easily can get very absurd.
Kampf = war or battle
Hörspiele = it's plural of "Hörspiel" and means radio play but bc of the German plural it's radio plays

The exact translation would be "Japanese Warradioplays" or "Japanese "Battleradioplays".

Responding at @RichardMongler

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Ah, The Great Kat. One of the most polarizing figures in all of Metal. You will either love her or hate her. Absolutely no in-between.

Here is the in-between: I like her early stuff, the later and nowadays things not so much.
And I don't really care for her private life and all the scandals and shit. At best it get's a chuckle out of me and especially how retarded people have reacted to her antics.

Hate to be a massive contrarian ITT, but I couldn't get into Electric Wizard. While some of their music is good (the self-titled being my most liked album of theirs), nothing ever stood out to me beyond their extremely crunchy guitar tone. Dopethrone is one of those classic albums I never truly got. The riffs are largely unmemorable and the album quickly blurs into one sonic mass of distorted guitars.

While I strongly disagree on the "largely unmemorable riffs" part (no joke, I just have to read the word Dopethrone and the intro of Funeralopolis starts playing in my head) you are kind of describing what Dopethrone was meant to be. A nasty sonic mass of distorted guitars, meant to be a one long dirty, raw, ugly, fuzzy, confussing and disturbing trip, to be the most ugliest, fuzziest, nastiest, confussing and disturbing Doom record. That's what Jus wanted to achieve at the time.

Also Jus talked about how 1) the personal lifes and the issues (health issues, drugs, trouble with the law) the EW guys back then had influenced the album and 2) the production of the album itself being troubled. So all these stuff led him to become angry and miserable and he wanted Dopethrone to reflect that.

Sure, people can argue about "Is Dopethrone the ugliest album in EW's history/ever" and might argue in favor of one of their first two albums and I think that's fair and all I have to say is that it's probably just in the eye of the beholder, that it's subjective and if you feel otherwise than I can live with that.

It's 2023 and I still remember the very first moment I heard this album for the first time and how I felt and how the album took me capitative. And it never let me go since then. But I guess what also contributes here is the fact where I lived back then, how I lived back then, I how felt about stuff and shit, what was going on in the rest of the world and that it was 2000, literally a new milenium had started. The album itself was such a perfect soundtrack to all of this. And I fucking love the riffs hahahaha

Drone Metal is another genre that seems cool on paper but sucks in execution. I want my Metal to be full of life, not be defined by dull and plodding riffs that create heavy soundscapes that ultimately build to nothing. Funeral Doom suffers from the same problem, but isn't nearly as bad as Drone Metal.

I like a lot of shit that is labelled as Drone Metal but I don't like the term "Drone Metal". I just call it drone and I the best drone is when it blends into Doom Metal. All I can say here is that I think this some sort of music -or sounds- that either resonates with something deep inside you or it doesn't. May sound cliche or gay or pathetic or whatever but either you feel it or you don't.
I'm really a huge fan of SUNN O))). Even have two Sunn tattoos. A very small O))) logo and one of the album artworks but not both together, each standing for itself on different parts of my body. But I get why people might not like Sunn or might be annoyed by their fanbase.

Same for Funeral Doom. Either this stuff takes your mind on a journey or it doesn't.

Here is one of my favorite Drone stuff, BONG from UK:

What’s your guys band that you’ve tried hard to listen to but couldnt like?

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- Not really a fan of "pure" Thrash Metal. Of course there are bands I like in this particular genre but I prefer my Thrash more to be Black-Thrash.
- Everything that is "technical", especially Technical Death Metal. I play guitar and drums but like I'm not really a technician or so. Not sure if I would say I'm even good in doing it. I like stuff to be raw and primitive and simple. Like I get why people pick up a guitar and then want to learn as many different ways to play riffs and become better and stuff but that was never my approach or really interested me and so music where it's about the technical aspects of the playing and doing stuff doesn't really interested me.
- Everything that is labelled as "Gothic Metal". I just don't like it.
- Everything that is -core or Nu Metal. I really, really don't like anything about it. The asthetics, the sound, the riffs, the moderness, the attitude, the split vocals between growling and shrieking and clean vocals, I literally hate everything about it.

To end this post and to get back a bit on topic again: I mentioned SUNN O))) in this long post.

Before SUNN O))) there was THORR'S HAMMER (not to be confused with NSBM band Thor's Hammer from Poland).
The band consisted only for a short time and consisted of Greg Anderson and Steve O'Malley (who later formed SUNN) plus their drummer from their other band BURNING WITCHES plus a woman from Norway who came as exchange student to the USA, Runhild Gammelseater (total fucking badass viking name). These four people met randomly, connected immediately and recorded only a demo and an EP before disbanding again (because Runhild went back to Norway).

Runhild did the vocals, both of it, the clean singing and the growling.

 

[Geddy Lee's Fee and See]

Not female, but a woman that's into metal is honestly more interesting and atrractive than your average woman tbqh.

Here's some Japanese bands with women in them or made up of women:

Boris (Wata is one of the best guitarists I've heard)

Show-Ya:

While Tokyo Jihen is more of a jazz rock band, I've always thought this song sounded almost like Led Zeppelin. The lead singer and guitarist has some songs that sound pretty heavy to the point of being basically metal songs IMO. She even inspired the characters of I-No and Elphet Valentine in the Guilty Gear games, if you've played them also I have a massive crush on her want to marry/fuck Shiina Ringo, not necessarily in that order. I don't care how embarassing that is: she's cool, she's hot, she's apparently very nice and she has class and passion, something a lot of women lack.

 

[fake farts]

Before SUNN O))) there was THORR'S HAMMER (not to be confused with NSBM band Thor's Hammer from Poland).

Amazing band. Also, unrelated to the thread, but NSBM Thor's Hammer has one of the most hilariously /pol/ and A&N tier album covers of all time. Mutts Law is not just for mutts.

 

[Calandrino]

Here's Sonja the transwoman band. I don't have a joke to go with this, you can provide your own. Sorry that I posted this but somebody was bound to, eventually.

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