Looking for female-fronted metal bands, I need your help!

[thefish666]

Straight Line Stitch

 

[BlackRoseMetalHeart]

Female-fronted metal is by far my favorite of all the "sub-genres" (if you will) of metal! I tend to prefer stuff with female vocals that is more in the vein of power metal, but here's a list of some that fall into that area as well as a few symphonic (somewhat progressive maybe, I typically don't like real progy stuff) female fronted metal bands that your woman might like. Forgive me if some of these were already mentioned:

A.D.D. - www.myspace.com/addchicago
Aesma Daeva - www.myspace.com/aesmadaeva
Angtoria - www.myspace.com/angtoriaofficial
A New Dawn - www.myspace.com/anewdawnband
Atargatis - www.myspace.com/atargatisgothicmetal
Autumn - www.myspace.com/autumnband
Avalanche - www.myspace.com/avalanchemetal
Battlelore - www.myspace.com/battleloremusic
Beautiful Sin - www.myspace.com/thebeautifulsinmetalband
Benedictum - www.myspace.com/benedictum
Black Widow USA - www.myspace.com/blackwidowusa
Bloodflowerz - www.myspace.com/blutblumen
Born In Winter - www.myspace.com/borninwinter
Brave - www.myspace.com/braveband
Crystal Viper - www.myspace.com/crystalviperofficial
Cwn Annwn - www.myspace.com/cwnannwn
Dante Fox - www.myspace.com/dantefox
Darkwell - www.myspace.com/darkwell
Deadlock - www.myspace.com/xdeadlockx
Dendura - www.myspace.com/denduraband
Doro - www.myspace.com/doroband
Dreamaker - www.myspace.com/dreamakerhome
Echoes of Eternity - www.myspace.com/echoesofeternity
Edenbridge - www.myspace.com/edenbridge
Evarest - www.myspace.com/evarestczech
Faint Horizon - www.myspace.com/fainthorizon
F.H.O.D. - www.myspace.com/kkfhod
Fountain of Tears - www.myspace.com/fountainoftears
Girlschool - www.myspace.com/girlschool1
Godyva - www.myspace.com/godyva
Gwyllion - www.myspace.com/gwyllionmetal
Hanging Doll - www.myspace.com/hangingdoll
HeavenLust - www.myspace.com/heavenlustband
Highway - www.myspace.com/highwaygirls
HolyHell - www.myspace.com/holyhellofficial
Hydrogyn - www.myspace.com/hydrogyn
Hysterica - www.myspace.com/hysterica
Ignitor - www.myspace.com/ignitor
Imperia - www.myspace.com/imperiaband
Into the Woods - www.myspace.com/intothewoodsuk
Jaded - www.myspace.com/jadedrockers
Katra - www.myspace.com/katramusic
Lullacry - www.myspace.com/lullacry
Lumsk - www.myspace.com/lumsk
Luna Mortis - www.myspace.com/lunamortismusic
LunarMile - www.myspace.com/lunarmile
Lunatica - www.myspace.com/lunaticametal
Meldrum - www.myspace.com/meldrumrocks
Memoira - www.myspace.com/memoira
Mystery Blue - www.myspace.com/mysterybluefr
Níobeth - www.myspace.com/niobeth
Operatika - www.myspace.com/operatika
Oratory - www.myspace.com/oratorymetal
Panndora - www.myspace.com/panndoraband
Phoenix Reign - www.myspace.com/phoenixreign
Powers Court - www.myspace.com/powerscourt
Pythia - www.myspace.com/pythiamusic
Remains of Fire - www.myspace.com/remainsoffire
Raven X - www.myspace.com/ravenxonline
Scarlet Sins - www.myspace.com/scarletsins
Shadowside - www.myspace.com/shadowsideband
Sirenia - www.myspace.com/sirenia
Sirens of Titan - www.myspace.com/sirensong
Skew Siskin - www.myspace.com/skewsiskin
Sisten Sin - www.myspace.com/sisterssin
Stolen Babies - www.myspace.com/stolenbabies
Temujin - www.myspace.com/temujin1
ThanatoSchizO - www.myspace.com/thanatoschizo
Theatre of Tragedy - www.myspace.com/pagesoftragedy
The Mystery - www.myspace.com/themysterymetal
Todesbonden - www.myspace.com/todesbonden
UnSun - www.myspace.com/unsunmusic
Urn - www.myspace.com/urn
Vainglory - www.myspace.com/vainglorymetal
Virus IV - www.myspace.com/virusiv
Visideon - www.myspace.com/visideon
Visions of Atlantis - www.myspace.com/visionsofatlantisofficial
White Skull - www.myspace.com/legionofskull
Xandria - www.myspace.com/xandria
Zed Yago - www.myspace.com/officialzedyago

Sorry if I got a little carried away. Like I said, I really love this stuff! I'm heavily involved in a lot of promotion for female fronted metal here in the states and am the co-founder/co-promoter of the US' premier female-fronted metal festival, Flight of the Valkyries, which was started in 2007 in St. Paul, MN. You and your lady might also want to check out some more of the bands listed on our MySpace friends and those mentioned here on the FotV forum on UM. Hope this helps you and her in your search!

 

[BlackRoseMetalHeart]

TH^T is the new Arch Enemy.

And here's the band that was what Arch Enemy wanted to be when Arch Enemy was still in diapers!
www.myspace.com/holymosesgermany
And they're still kicking ass!

Probably not your girlfriend's cup of tea, abyssofdreams, but non-the-less an amazing metal band!

 

[Erik Monsonis]

I really like the female fronted metal. In fact, Dandelium is a project thought to have a female singer (although I have to find the right one yet ¬¬)

I love Angtoria's orchestras, awesome songwrtigin, poor metal production for my taste...

 

[ahjteam]

Manzana
Velcra
Kittie
Xandria

 

[BlackRoseMetalHeart]

I love Angtoria's orchestras, awesome songwrtigin, poor metal production for my taste...

I totally agree with you on the songwriting, but what do you mean by poor production? Just wondering. I thought the album sounded great. I'm no sound engineer, but I've always thought the production on the album sounded really clean. Did you not like the mix or something?

 

[Flat Fifth Fury]

Uh, y'all forgot To-mera! http://www.myspace.com/tomeraband

 

[Chryst Krispies]

OH man plus 1 on HolyHell.

 

[drew_drummer]

Might not be 100% what you're looking for, but I'm a big fan of "Battle of Mice" and "Made Out Of Babies" - the singer in these bands is Julie Christmas, and she has an awesome range.

 

[Erik Monsonis]

I totally agree with you on the songwriting, but what do you mean by poor production? Just wondering. I thought the album sounded great. I'm no sound engineer, but I've always thought the production on the album sounded really clean. Did you not like the mix or something?

Well, as I do all the production for my band i'm used to compare sounds and analyse every album I listen to from a mixing engineer point of view.

The Angtoria album "God Has A Plan For Us All" guitars sound really thin for my taste and so the drums. If those elements fail in a production, everything else comes down too.

I'm not saying it sounds bad, but it could sound better for my taste.
Maybe they wanted guitars and drums to be always behind the orchestra and voice, i wouldn't have done it that way.

Anyways they're big influence to me in all the orchestra songwriting

best regards
-Erik

 

[More Than Ever]

I'll second Within Temptation.

Don't forget Nightwish.

 

[ahjteam]

Oh yeah


VELCRA (two songs in that clip, the first tracks from the first two albums)



CARCOSA

 

[J the TyranT]

big ups on the Velcra recommendation... that's some cool shit

 

[axeman720]

Just finished the luna mortis debut for Century Media last week.

Check out the tracks we did with em back in feb.

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=5075298

record should be out early next year.

 

[JHA]

Hmm, I'm suprised no one mentioned Aghora yet (or I'm blind and didn't see): http://www.myspace.com/aghora

Maybe a bit more progeish stuff, needs a few listens to get in

 

[HumanEquation]

Seriously check out Beautiful Sin, that woman has the definition of 'strong' vocals.

 

[BlackRoseMetalHeart]

Seriously check out Beautiful Sin, that woman has the definition of 'strong' vocals.

Hell yes! I love Magali Luyten's voice, but the power behind Beautiful Sin really comes from Uli Kusch's writing. Magali has another band, Virus IV, which is really amazing, but it doesn't have as much power, nor as many hooks in the writing as Beautiful Sin's stuff IMO.

 

[Obscura]

I can definitely second Fear Of God 'Within The Veil". Vocally and lyrically one of my favorite releases of all time. The dark lyrics are made all the more painful knowing that their singer, Dawn Crosby, basically drank herself to death in her twenties. A phenomenal album.

 

[StephenSLR]

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[Virgil.]

The way I end up finding new bands is by checking out top friends on some bands myspace friends lists. Another way is searching for a band like Nightwish on Amazon, and look at the "others also purchased" list in the middle of the page, then just listening to samples or finding their myspace pages.