I’m hoping someone can do a post about female/trans artists people may not have heard of. If you’re a music buff please offer your services! Comment here or message me.

  • ZDL@lazysoci.al
    4·
    11 days ago

    All-female, female-fronted, or solo female artists: a list

    • Ad Infinitum (symphonic metal)

    • Aexylium (folk metal)

    • Alterium (symphonic power metal)

    • Amaranthe (EDM metal)

    • Andry (progressive metal, hard rock)

    • Annie Lennox (legend)

    • Asthenia (gothic metal, symphonic metal)

    • Battle Beast (melodic power metal)

    • Bikini Kill (riot grrrl, punk)

    • Blondie (legend)

    • Burning Witches (classic metal)

    • Delain (symphonic metal)

    • Descartes A Kant (experimental punk, post-punk, metal, post-metal, pop, cabaret, shoegaze)

    • Dryadia (symphonic metal)

    • Dummy Toys (street punk, riot grrrl)

    • Dymna Lotva (doom metal, post-black metal, atmospheric/folk metal, gothic metal)

    And that’s up to “D”. 22 more letters of the alphabet to go. :D

    • ZDL@lazysoci.al
      3·
      11 days ago

      • Eastern Moths (progressive oriental metal) (I know, but that’s the genre name! Ugh.)

      • Eleine (symphonic goth metal)

      • Enya (Celtic new age ambient)

      • Epica (symphonic metal)

      • Erragal (pagan metal)

      • Exulansis (folk metal)

      • Frozen Crown (power metal, melodic death metal)

      • Garbage (alternative, grunge)

      • Girlschool (classic metal) (also the longest-running all-female group in metal)

      • Halestorm (hard rock, alternative metal)

      • Heilung (experimental folk/folk metal/ritual ambient)

      • Hildr Valkyrie (blackened folk metal)

      • Holyarrow (symphonic metal, gothic metal, black metal)

      • Ieschure (occult black metal) (single-woman project, she plays all instruments and does all vocals)

      • Imee Ooi (Buddhist ambient)

      • In This Moment (alternative metal, metalcore, hard rock)

      • Infected Rain (nu-metal, alternative metal)

      • Isabelle Huang (pop with strong folk elements) (also a goddess)

      And that’s up to I. 17 more letters of the alphabet to go!

      • ZDL@lazysoci.al
        3·
        11 days ago

        • Jane Siberry (herself, OK and art pop) (but really she’s her own genre)

        • Jenner (speed metal, thrash metal)

        • Jinjer (progressive metalcore)

        • Joan Jett & The Blackhearts (legend)

        • Kate Bush (art pop, progressive pop)

        • Kobra and the Lotus (classic metal, hard rock)

        • Krith Nazgul (melodic blackened death metal)

        • Leah (symphonic celtic folk metal)

        • Lothloryen (symphonic gothic power metal)

        • Lotus of Darkness (raw blackened folk metal)

        • Loura Lou (pop) (is actually primarily an actress but a pretty good singer who collabs with loads of others)

        • Lucid Sins (symphonic gothic metal)

        • Mutilasi Jelangkung (death metal, thrash metal)

        • Myrkur (Nordic blackened folk)

        • Mystica Girls (melodic metal)

        We’re half-way through the alphabet!

        • ZDL@lazysoci.al
          3·
          11 days ago

          • Nena (pop) (she apparently has 99 red balloons)

          • Obscure Dream (symphonic gothic metal)

          • OU (yes, filtered through progressive metal) (they’re also the answer to the question “What would King Crimson sound like if shrunk down to 4 and 3 of them were Chinese?”)

          • Pumarosa (electronic rock, post-punk, art-rock)

          • Queen Sea Big Shark (rockabilly, indie rock, no-wave, surf rock, electronic, pop, hip-hop)

          • Rhea’s Obsession (darkwave, world music, gothic)

          • Rosa Nocturna (symphonic power folk metal)

          • Sarah Brightman (classical pop crossover, show)

          • Semblant (gothic metal, melodic death metal)

          • September Mourning (alternative metal, hard rock, gothic) (legendary sound engineer to turned to performance)

          • Shireen (dark folk, “witchpop”, experimental)

          And that’s up to S, so 7 letters to go!

          • ZDL@lazysoci.al
            3·
            11 days ago

            • Tanya Tagaq (Inukpunk, throat singing, experimental, avant-garde)

            • The Cranberries (alternative rock, pop rock, indie)

            • The Illusion of Dawn (symphonic gothic metal)

            • The Linda Lindas (punk rock, indie rock, riot grrrl)

            • The Order of Chaos (thrash metal, melodic metal)

            • The Runaways (hard rock, glam rock, proto-punk)

            • Tomb of Lucifer (raw atmospheric occult black metal)

            • Unleash the Archers (melodic death/power metal fusion)

            • Xandria (symphonic metal)

            That’s all the letters that are unaccented and not in foreign alphabets. Now for the weirder ones where I have to transliterate, etc.

            • ZDL@lazysoci.al
              1·
              11 days ago
              • Área 7 (rock, alternative metal, nu-metal)
              • Ye Li & An Jiu (chinese folk/pop, 古风)
              • Mysterain (symphonic folk metal, gothic folk metal)
              • Guai Li (punk, indie, avant-punk)
              • Catching String (nu metal)
              • Faye Wong (pop, alternative, art pop)
              • Purple Hell (melodic death metal)

              And that’s all I’ve got.

              On my phone.

              If you need more, my phone has less than 15% of my total collection…