#Female gothic metal bands update#

Her third record, 'Transmission', was recently recorded at Steve Vai's Mothership studio in Hollywood and if Steve is willing to produce your CD, then you have to be damn good.Д¬arla has been the charismatic singer with Dutch metal band La-Ventura since 2005. Hailing from Argentina is another female who will leave you breathless from her skills on the electric guitar. Her influences include Iron Maiden, Iced Earth, and Lost Horizon. Her clean, banshee vocals are impeccable, her vibrato is tempered, and the screams and highs she hits are just jaw dropping. Taking the lead vocals of Canada's metal band Unleash the Archers, Brittney's classic traditional vocals soar over male death growls and high speed riffs. She has stated that her influences arenвЂ™t so much in the 80s as they are rooted in 60s and 70s rock. Her vocals are steeped in 70s glory and recalls some of the showmanship of David Bowie, T. Hoyles has fronted the band throughout numerous festivals and global tours including a stint in the US. Spiders formed in Gothenburg, Sweden in 2010. In 2007, she started a solo project, Agua de Annique. Anneke has a strong, melodic voice with a wide vocal range which may be the most haunting of them all. Starting as a death metal band, Holland's The Gathering eventually brought on Anneke for vocals and helped to start the melodic, female-fronted Gothic Metal scene with the release of their psuedo-metal album 'Mandylion'. Savage is a strong vocalist with Pat Benatar characteristics.ДЄnneke Van Giersbergen - Anneke Van Giersbergen/The Gathering The band have released two albums thus far and draw on influences ranging from KISS to Guns N Roses. She is the daughter of Swiss and Irish opera singers. Some categorize her music as alternative but she prefers the term Eclectica. She also has her solo work that blends pop, rock and electronica. Murphy is a vocalist and hurdy gurdy player for Sweden's folk metal act Eluveitie. Ann's music, both vocal and instrumental, have been included on numerous soundtracks and commercials. After several male singers, Ann took over the vocals and changed the band's name to Hellion. Her powerful vocals are often the litmus test for any vocalist looking show their skills.ДЇormer singer of Hellion, she spent years on the road playing Hammond organ and eventually formed Beowulf. While guitarist Nancy laid down classic riffs, Ann would belt out traditional inspired vocals as strong or stronger than any male of the era. Regarded as a novelty act early in their career which now spans forty years, pioneering sisters Ann and Nancy have been the centerpiece to Heart, one of the biggest selling hard rock bands of all time.

She isn't the first female to use a death growl, but she is certainly one of the most well-known in metal. From 1991 to 1998 she was the vocalist for the extreme death metal band Asmodina, and in 1998 she founded Mistress, which she was with until 2001.

Lead vocalist for the Swedish death metal band Arch Enemy since Autumn 2000. Johansson and Edstrom created the duo Shiva, an amazing AOR-Hard Rock band and released two albums: вЂњShivaвЂќ in 2002 and вЂњDesert DreamsвЂќ in 2004. At the age of eighteen she joined Yankee Heaven where she met guitar player Mats Edstrom. After the release of their second album, Lightseeker, Ana has become a rising star in the female fronted Euro power metal scene.ДЄnette started singing at the age of sixteen when she joined a band called Angelez. She joined Magica after guitarist Bat Costea started the band as a side project of their then-band Interitus Dei. She fronted the band for three albums before stepping down in 2014 to replace Angela Gossow in Arch Enemy.ДЄna Mladinovici sings in the Romanian metal band Magica. This growling Canadian is known for her past work with The Agonist.

#Female gothic metal bands update#

So, this section will exist as an archive with a possible random update from time to time.ДЄlissa White-Gluz - Arch Enemy/(The Agonist) And it doesn't make sense to give extra exposure to what really isn't underexposed anymore. Now, all these years later, we feel that women are prevalent enough in metal that it would be exhaustive to try and create a comprehensive list.

* Editor's Note: Around mid-2003, we created this Metal Maidens page to focus on and provide info about the limited number of women that were active in the genre and to the pioneering women who had early on been a part of what was basically a man's game.