Myr comments on [Band Request] Metal (Or Metal Adjacent) bands with female, queer, and/or persons of color as members

submitted 4 months ago by elomekra@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/metal@lemmy.world

need more diversity. Tired of seeing cishet white males

EDIT: Here's what we know:

[2026/10/03] Update:

Femme vocalists:

[–] Myr@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Gothic/heavy metal band Sonja has a transfem frontwoman. Their debut LP Loud Arriver had a fantastic focus on her vocals.

[–] elomekra@lemmy.blahaj.zone [S] 2 points 1 month ago

On the other hand, this came out a month ago!

Sev Lezu - Blood Conscript - Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives - https://www.metal-archives.com/albums/Sev_Lezu/Blood_Conscript/1455388

Black/Melodic Death.

“Me and the dolls made real black metal. The rest can fuck off and burn in hellfire.” - Melissa Moore

Ordovician Records (@ordovicianrecords) - imginn.com - https://imginn.com/p/Da0TRhnFV4i/

We will definitely be making a post about this :3

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[–] elomekra@lemmy.blahaj.zone [S] 2 points 1 month ago*

Listening to this rn. Gothic/Heavy isn't our vibe, but it's a fun riff-drive, and the vocals remind us of old 90s songs.

Also, our face when we realized that Melissa Moore was in the infamous facist Absu:

The story seems to be that Melissa came out as trans, and the band members kicked Melissa over being trans 🤡 which's pretty bigoted

Glad that Melissa seems to have transitioned got to be in other projects, a great "fuck you" to absu.

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