Fav female-fronted metal bands?

So who are some of your favorite hard rock/metal bands fronted by females? Some of mine:

Arch Enemy (Angela Gossow years)
Vixen
Lita Ford (solo artist, but I'm counting it)
Sinergy
Halestorm

Epica(Simone Simon's *swoon*🥰)
Lee Aaron(metal quueeeenn!).
I really like Floor Jansen (though I don't own any of the albums she's done with any of her bands).
Heart (not metal, but some hard rock stuff)
Evanescence. (Amy Lee *swoon*)

Honestly I don't own much female fronted bands. Though I own a few with female members in the band. Bolt Throwers female bassist for example). And I don't know many. I remember Vixen...they were ok. Arch Enemies female growlers are pretty good(don't own any Arch Enemy though).. I remember Lita Ford(not metal, hard rock) she was good and a good guitarist. I remember Warlock(Doro Pesch)-excellent, need to buy some actually. I know of a number of others but dont really own any/much.
Gender isn't relevant to me much. Same as race. If the musician or vocalist is good...they're good, if they suck...they suck.

The only female fronted hard rock or metal bands I own anything by are several Epica albums, a couple Evanescence albums, a couple Heart album's, 4 or 5 Lee Aaron tapes(one cd).
Aside from that I have several Bolt Thrower albums(female bassist), I have a White Zombie cd(with their female bassist) and a couple Rob Zombie album's.
And one Nightwish cd(with Annette Olson vocalist).

This shouldn't be too difficult since I only tolerate a handful of female vocalists in metal.

Fairyland with their first album, with Elisa C. Martin on vocals. She has a boyish sound to herself rather than a very feminine one, which sort of makes sense considering she's a lesbian apparently. She also sang on the first few Dark Moor albums, which were also very good.
Then there's Battle Beast, especially the first album which had Nitte Valo on vocals. After Kabanen left the band they got way less interesting sadly.
And of course I can't forget about Leah McHenry (performing under the name Leah). There's something down-to-earth about how she sings, which makes me like her music way more than Within Temptation, Nightwish, Epica and that ilk.

I know this isnt in the Christian section but here are some of my favorite Christian examples

Of course Flyleaf is huge, with Lacey, but here are some lesser known bands:







This one is not Christian:

The 3rd And The Mortal
Heidre*
Leonov*
Mourn
Of Withering Ashes* (they don't have much music, but I dig 'em!)


*Christian band

I'm a big fan of female fronted metal and hard rock.
 
Doro/Warlock (total fanboy, love pretty much everything she has done)
The Amorettes
Amy Wolter/Fight
Battle Beast (at least the first three albums)
Evans & Stokes
Femme Fatale
Flyleaf (with Lacey)
HB
Issa
Lee Aaron
Liliac (young band of siblings)
Lita Ford
Pamela Moore
Rock Goddess
Thundermother
Saraya
Vixen
Witchburn (defunct local doom/stoner group)
Year of the Cobra
(Quite a few rock bands/artists I really dig as well: Heart/Lovemongers, Alannah Myles, Concrete Blonde, Annie Lennox, The Cranberries, Dorothy (first album), Stevie Nicks/Fleetwood Mac, Hammerbox, Imelda May, Janis Joplin, Limberlost (local band), Melissa Etheridge, Pat Benatar, Robin Beck, Sass Jordan)

[quote="Staybrite"]I'm a big fan of female fronted metal and hard rock.
 
Doro/Warlock (total fanboy, love pretty much everything she has done)

All we are, all we are...we are....we are all...all we need.


Have you heard her guest vox on Amon Amarths album, *jomsviking*(song,*a dream that cannot be*)?

Not that she fronted the band, but I used to love...what is her name? The back-up soprano on Slechtvalks *war that plagues the land*.
She was very good soprano and fit beautifully with the music and atmosphere.

Fionghulla?

Contrarian Deist wrote:

Staybrite wrote:I'm a big fan of female fronted metal and hard rock.
 
Doro/Warlock (total fanboy, love pretty much everything she has done)

All we are, all we are...we are....we are all...all we need.


Have you heard her guest vox on Amon Amarths album, *jomsviking*(song,*a dream that cannot be*)?

Oh wow, I totally missed that.  I will have to hit up youtube and check it out right now....thanks!

Staybrite wrote:

Contrarian Deist wrote:

Staybrite wrote:I'm a big fan of female fronted metal and hard rock.
 
Doro/Warlock (total fanboy, love pretty much everything she has done)

All we are, all we are...we are....we are all...all we need.


Have you heard her guest vox on Amon Amarths album, *jomsviking*(song,*a dream that cannot be*)?

Oh wow, I totally missed that.  I will have to hit up youtube and check it out right now....thanks!

Yer welcome

Apparently Evanescence have a new album that just recently came out

Epica
Nightwish
Jinjer
Ignea
Trees Of Eternity
Within Temptation
Unleash The Archers

In the Christian metal realm my favorites would be HB and Ancient Prophecy.

Fighter and Ransom for the rock / hard rock scene.

In the secular metal & rock world I would say Sentinel Beast, Scandal, Pat Benatar, And Girlschool.

Lita Ford
Joan Jett
Joanna Dean
Pat Benatar
Ransom
Rachel Rachel
Fighter
Girlschool
Saraya
The Letter Black
Barlow Girl
Fireflight
Lee Aaron

I like a few. Not all Christian but, the women in these bands are extremely talented!

Arch Enemy (Angela AND Alyssa years)
Flyleaf (Lacey Sturm Years)
Xandria
Leave's Eyes (Liv Kristine Years)
Sister Sin
Once Human
Delain
Within Temptation
Lacuna Coil
Nervosa
Crypta (2 ex Nervosa members new band and sounds awesome!)
Kobra & The Lotus
Jinjer
Infected Rain
Stryper

The Gathering (Mainly the Anneke years)

A Sound of Thunder to me in the top 3 most powerful set of pipes on a female metal lead.

MegaNorm64 wrote:I like a few. Not all Christian but, the women in these bands are extremely talented!

Arch Enemy (Angela AND Alyssa years)
Flyleaf (Lacey Sturm Years)
Xandria
Leave's Eyes (Liv Kristine Years)
Sister Sin
Once Human
Delain
Within Temptation
Lacuna Coil
Nervosa
Crypta (2 ex Nervosa members new band and sounds awesome!)
Kobra & The Lotus
Jinjer
Infected Rain
Stryper

Stryper? Really? Get your ears ( and eyes) checked.

BaleMaster wrote:
Stryper? Really? Get your ears ( and eyes) checked.

I think he's trying to be funny.

All the out-of-work comedians...

Witch Mountain with Uta Plotkin
Vainglory with Kate French
Witchburn with Jamie Nova
Jinjer with Tatiana Shmailyuk

deathisgain wrote:Witch Mountain with Uta Plotkin
Vainglory with Kate French
Witchburn with Jamie Nova
Jinjer with Tatiana Shmailyuk

Jamie Nova is fantastic in Witchburn (she has also recorded a few singer/song-writer kind of albums on her own... not quite my cup of tea).  I really wish the band would reunite and record another album.

Probably forgetting some, but...

Holyhell
Chastain
Vainglory
Huntress
Hellion
Warlock
Savage Master
Holy Moses
Sentinel Beast

Staybrite wrote:

deathisgain wrote:Witch Mountain with Uta Plotkin
Vainglory with Kate French
Witchburn with Jamie Nova
Jinjer with Tatiana Shmailyuk

Jamie Nova is fantastic in Witchburn (she has also recorded a few singer/song-writer kind of albums on her own... not quite my cup of tea).  I really wish the band would reunite and record another album.

I listend to the second album when it came out, and for some reason I don't remember liking it.

^I started looking at their lyrics and I think I'll pass...  Do you know Mourn though?  They're female-fronted doom and I'd categorize their lyrics as "safe secular."  (My wife absolutely cannot stand their singer, though I think she's fine.)