Female singers

[Chinese Whispers]

Doesn't really belong to the metal category, but Julie Christmas does a fine job in Made Out Of Babies which is a pretty heavy/noisy rock band.

edit: Just realised this thread was aiming for more cleaner vocs. lol. Julie does cleans but they may be too rough to be mentioned in this thread.

Still, I highly rate her vocals over the vast majority of the others named in this thread. Most female metal vocalists tend to be in poncy 'symphonic' bands or horrid growlers.

 

[Wander]

Found a new one. Audrey Sylvain from Amesoeurs is really good.

 

[Kenneth R.]

chick vocals in Metal are easily the worst thing ever.

Björk is far more metal than pretty much everything mentioned in this thread

win.

 

[sadistik necrofiend]

Elizabeth (I believe that is the her name) from Dargaard. She is quite amazing visually and has a really nice voice.

 

[metal_wrath]

Noone gives a fuck about Bjoerk!

 

[opeth_353]

Apart from quite a lot of people..

And yeah, first ones to come to mind are.. Audrey (Amesoeurs/Alcest) and whoever it is that sings in Hammers Of Misfortune.

 

[sadistik necrofiend]

The singer from Shape of Despair is amazing as well.

 

[metal_wrath]

Apart from quite a lot of people..

This thread is for Female singers in metal for fucks sake.

This thread is for solo singers, not guest singers.

 

[Don Corleone]

björk is pretty metal...in a very unconventional sense. listen to "unravel" from homogenic for instance.

 

[Rocky Raccoon]

Noone gives a fuck about Bjoerk!

I see your still a fucking idiot

Good female singers and metal don't really go together.

Good female singers in general would be:-

Bjork
Joni Mitchell
Carole King
Ani Defranco
Fiona Apple
M.I.A
Grace Slick
etc.

 

[i aint play this]

Fiona Apple/ Joni Mitchell >>>>>>>>> Any mentally deranged metal bitch

 

[Chinese Whispers]

Fiona Apple/ Joni Mitchell >>>>>>>>> Any mentally deranged metal bitch

Won't disagree with that.

 

[Ninfix]

Simone Simons, which is also THE thing in the world that is best to rest your eyes on.

all the Ayreon-women(Floor, Irene, Magali, Heather Findlay), Julie Kiss in To-Mera.

 

[Wander]

Out of women who have sung on Ayreon records, Anneke van Giersbergen, Heather Findlay and possibly Marcela Bovio are the best, I think.

But yes, there are obviously more good singers outside of metal and than in metal.

 

[EkstatikParataxis]

Julie Kiss in To-Mera.

I dont like female singers but in to-mera i tolerate them... interesting band. (musically)

 

[Ninfix]

I dont like female singers but in to-mera i tolerate them... interesting band. (musically)

Haha, yes, very interesting. Especially Asylum


On-topic:

 

[Don Corleone]

hold on, how could us all forget JARBOE?

 

[i aint play this]

Jarboe AKA ''that fucking stunning deep voice'''

 

[Ɛnslaved]

hold on, how could us all forget JARBOE?

Second that.Hell,she is one of the most unique singers of all time.The works she done with Swans still blows me off.

 

[Peachy]

Second that.Hell,she is one of the most unique singers of all time.The works she done with Swans still blows me off.

I agree, but this thread is after all about female vocalists in metal, and I don't really think she qualifies under that label. If we want to expand further, I have to include Lisa Gerrard and Kris Force.