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Anyone here a music buff? (piefed.blahaj.zone)
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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.

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[–] 1 point 1 year ago (7 children)

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

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    • 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!

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    • 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!

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    • 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!

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    • 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.

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    • 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...

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