HM Women - where are they now?

[SickBoy]

Well, I hope this topic hasn't been covered yet...

Anyway, I was just listening to great Velvet Viper album with fantastic Jutta Weinhold on vocals. This lady and a few other I'll mention later, really puts to shame most of the "power" vocalists...

Jutta used to sing in a band called Zed Yago before V.Viper was formed (mind you, VV's bass player was Lars Ratz, today a chief in Metalium) and, from what I've heard, she was much older than her bandmates (it seems so in the pictures on the album sleeve as well), but that didn't stop her from writing HM anthems. I hear she's singing blues in Hamburg clubs now...

Leather Leone is my fav frontwoman of all time, her raspy and aggressive voice is a pure miracle to behold! Chastain works with her behind the mic are all great and her solo effort (yes, she has one!) isn't at all far away from Chastain itself. I hear she's an assistant at some dentist lab...

Doro Pesch doesn't need much intro (I hope so), as she's probably the best known of all. She's still pursuing her solo career, though it's not as good as Warlock IMO.

Feel free to throw in few others you can think of, these came first to my mind. Also, if anyone wants to give my band a listen, the mp3s of the demo have been uploaded on the site, just follow the link below .

 

[carnut]

Lee " Metal Queen" Aaron just had her first baby in june and now plays more Jazz related stuff.
http://www.leeaaron.net/

 

[SoundMaster]

There are plenty of female fronted metal bands:

Nightwish
Lacuna Coil
Madder Mortem
the Gathering
that other band from Finland

 

[Jean-Pierre]

Everyone seems to have forgotten the immortal Ann Boleyn....

 

[carnut]

Everyone seems to have forgotten the immortal Ann Boleyn....

Yeah, Hellion Rocked , was more real metal than just a nice face in a rock band. Ann started New Renaissance records. Hellion gets together now and than, in 2003 they even released another album...

 

[Fangface]

Jutta is still around, she has a new Metal project simply called Weinhold, featuring Markus Grobskopf from Helloween.

Anyway Burkhard is the "female-fronted metal" specialist here, where has he been?

 

[SickBoy]

Jutta is still around, she has a new Metal project simply called Weinhold, featuring Markus Grobskopf from Helloween.

Kickass, can't wait to hear that!

There are plenty of female fronted metal bands:
Nightwish
Lacuna Coil
Madder Mortem
the Gathering
that other band from Finland

Ummm, excuse me, but we are on OLD SCHOOL forum and NONE of these bands can be considered old school. It's very common thing that a girl fronts a doom-gothic band, to the point where it's not interesting anymore. Also, The Gathering isn't very much metal in my book lately...

 

[Burkhard]

Anyway Burkhard is the "female-fronted metal" specialist here, where has he been?

He has still been visiting this place regularly (i.e. on a daily basis), but thought that if he feels he doesn´t have to say anything, it´s better to just keep his mouth shut instead of "spamming around"/posting just for the sake of posting (like some people in the SOT-forum tend to do).

To get back on topic, one of my two favourite metal vocalists - Dawn Crosby - already died about 8 years ago at the early age of 33 because of an acute liver disease. She drank herself to death. When I read this, it suddenly seemed to become clear that the lines "I know the enslaver, I taste its poisen...felt its sting deep inside, It has no answer, only bitter lies, But its voice I´m hearing keeps calling my name" from the Fear Of God song "All That Remains" referred to alcohol. (Well, maybe I´m wrong, but to me it does make sense.) It also reminded me of a line from the Saint Vitus song "Dying Inside", which says "Alcohol knows it´s gonna win". To me, Dawn Crosby´s vocals on "Within The Veil" are still some of the most impressive/fascinating I´ve ever heard and until now there´s no other album to which I´ve listened more often.
(Just in case anyone should be interested (Attention! Spam ahead! ), some years ago I´ve written a very long fan comment about what Dawn and her music/lyrics meant to me and you find it in the "fans" section on the official Fear Of God-website www.fear-of-god.com.)

My other favourite metal-vocalist Monika Edvardsen probably never was what most metal-fans would consider a "heavy metal woman". I mean, her vocals were really very unusual for a metal band, maybe too unusual for quite a lot of metal-fans. However, I doubt that the two Atrox albums "Terrestrials" and "Orgasm" would have become my - by far! - most listened-to albums during the last years without Monika´s vocals. (Whether you like them or not probably also depends on what other kinds of music you listen to.) Well, earlier this year Monika left Atrox. She still continues to make music, but it doesn´t have anything to do with metal anymore. (As I liked her "side-project" Tactile Gemma, I also might like the stuff of her new "band" Swarmling.)

To get a bit more "old school", 3/5 of the so-called "all-girl" metal band (must be a counterpart to the "all-boy" metal bands) Meanstreak (they released one album titled "Roadkill" in 1988 and some demos afterwards) ended up as wifes of Dream Theater-members.

As for some other female metal vocalists who have already been mentioned - Doro Pesch, Jutta Weinhold, Leather Leone -, I still remember them from my "early" metal-years. When I bought Warlock´s "Hellbound" in 1985, Chastain´s "Mystery Of Illusion" in 1986 and Zed Yago´s "From Over Yonder" in 1987, I really liked them a lot - the music as well as the vocals, but I think my favourite female-fronted album from that time was probably Détente´s "Recognize No Authority" (released in 1986, with Dawn Crosby on vocals). I still listen occasionally to the latter as well as to Znowhite´s "Act Of God" (1988), sometimes also to some Chastain ("The 7th Of Never" is still my favourite), but I haven´t listened to Warlock for years. I guess if I should do so now, I´d probably pick their debut "Burning The Witches".

I wonder what has become of Rock Goddess. I only have got their second album "Hell Hath No Fury" and I haven´t listened to it for quite a looong time. But Jody Turner really had a powerful voice and I wish they hadn´t stopped their career so early!

By the way, it seems Zed Yago are back again, but with a new vocalist. I don´t know what they sound like now. For more info go to www.zed-yago.com.

For more female-fronted metal(-related) bands, visit

www.soniccathedral.com.

 

[carnut]

My favs definitly are Znöwhite, Détente and Hawaii.... as I said, more metal than nice faces only. Almost all that new Gothic stuff with female vocals sounds alike and bores me quick....

 

[SoundMaster]

Ummm, excuse me, but we are on OLD SCHOOL forum

You are excused!

 

[SoundMaster]

Almost all that new Gothic stuff with female vocals sounds alike and bores me quick....

Many of the current female-fronted bands are erroneously labelled as being "gothic".

Bands such as Lacuna Coil, the Gathering & Madder Mortem are anything but 'gothic'.
Madder Mortem has hints of doom, but are not really goth. Their latest release is unbelievably heavy and contains both hints of old and new school metal.

 

[SickBoy]

To get a bit more "old school", 3/5 of the so-called "all-girl" metal band (must be a counterpart to the "all-boy" metal bands) Meanstreak (they released one album titled "Roadkill" in 1988 and some demos afterwards) ended up as wifes of Dream Theater-members.

Yeah, I've heard of them, but haven't been succesful in finding their mp3s on the net...

but I think my favourite female-fronted album from that time was probably Détente´s "Recognize No Authority" (released in 1986, with Dawn Crosby on vocals). I still listen occasionally to the latter as well as to Znowhite´s "Act Of God" (1988)

That's it, Znowhite! Great stuff!

but I haven´t listened to Warlock for years. I guess if I should do so now, I´d probably pick their debut "Burning The Witches".

That's my favorite too...

 

[Clammy]

Don't forget about Vixen and Lita Ford! :Shedevil:

Cheers!

 

[Wyvern]

Besides the ones mentioned (alive or defunct):

Sinergy (Fin)
Moon Of Steel (Ita)
Black Widow (US)
Arch Enemy (Swe)
Forgotten Tales
Azeroth (Arg)

Brainstorm (US)
Lana Lane (US)
Black Knight (Can)
After Forever (ND)
Epica (ND)

 

[Fangface]

Headline (Fra) too, I think Burkhard is a new fan of them

Legeia (Ger), supported by Greeno this time.

and..... Holy Moses, praised by me

 

[Wyvern]

I heard Headline covering a Deep Purple song and it was astounding. How many records they have, where I can find more info about them?

 

[Bryant]

Kickass, can't wait to hear that!



Ummm, excuse me, but we are on OLD SCHOOL forum and NONE of these bands can be considered old school. It's very common thing that a girl fronts a doom-gothic band, to the point where it's not interesting anymore. Also, The Gathering isn't very much metal in my book lately...

Whoa ! Calm down speedy.

I think you will find several regulars here that are fans of Lacuna Coil, though I don't know about the other bands listed. I don't buy into that "goth" genre that is being shoved at LC either. To me they are just cool atmospheric metal and only sound similar to the other bands like that because the other bands are trying to copy them.


Bryant

 

[Bryant]

Many of the current female-fronted bands are erroneously labelled as being "gothic".

Bands such as Lacuna Coil, the Gathering & Madder Mortem are anything but 'gothic'.
Madder Mortem has hints of doom, but are not really goth. Their latest release is unbelievably heavy and contains both hints of old and new school metal.

Yeah I can't really speak about any of them except lacuna Coil, but "Unleashed Memories" absolutely rips. There's not a bad song on the disc. I think I already stated this, but I consider them "atmospheric metal" and I don't see the huge doom or goth connection.


Bryant

 

[Death Prophet]

I don't buy into that "goth" genre that is being shoved at LC either.

Yeah, when I found out Lacuna Coil was aparantly goth metal, I found that hard to believe, because they don't sound gothic at all.

 

[SickBoy]

Whoa ! Calm down speedy.

I think you will find several regulars here that are fans of Lacuna Coil, though I don't know about the other bands listed.

You got me wrong, I didn't mean to bash those bands, I simply feel that SoundMaster missed my point in the original post. I don't have any problems with what someone likes, nor do I want to play the role of policeman here. It's just there's loads of these gothic/doom bands today and some 90% have female vocalists (and many of them are real beauties, yummy :Smug: ), but the women I was reffering to are more in the vein of those me and Burkhard mentioned...
I really like The Gathering and Nightwish!