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
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    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…