Bolt thrower, animals as leaders, suffocation, suicidal tendencies, alien weaponry, bloodywood, the hu, ningen isu, Boris, arch enemy, e-an-na, eluveitie, frozen crown, windhand, plus a ton of other folk/power/symphonic metal bands and quite a few chicks in the stoner/doom scene.
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Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza. Animals as Leaders. Employed to Serve. Heriot. Cerebral Bore. Chepang. Made out of Babies/Julie Christmas. Escuela Grind. Agoraphobic Nosebleed. fluoride. Human Leather. Pupil Slicer.
Probably a lot more. But I am tired. YMMV.
Baby metal, kittie, Halestorm, linkin park, shadows fall, sleep token. Thats a few i can think of off the top of my head.
Edit: paramore, sepultura
Babymetal are really good, by the way. They've used a lot of different subgenres for their songs and they often mix things up in a fun way.
Lots of choice in the Japanese scene: Lovebites, Nemophila, Hanabie, Broken by the Scream, Neon Oni, 88kasyo junrei, Maximum the Hormone.
Other non-western bands: Myrath, Bloodywood, Asterism, Dead Pioneers.
Western bands: Arch Enemy, The Agonist, Epica, Within Temptation, Eths, Blue Medusa, Melissa Bonny, Wargasm (UK), Die Spitz, Scene Queen, Lambrini Girls.
Also, Dragonforce now has two female band members and one from Hong Kong.
If you search the internet for terms like "female fronted metal" and "African metal" you'll find lots of bands.
Also, Youtube is really good for discovering bands like this because the thumbnails will often show you the band members. Just look up a niche band and start clicking all the recommendations.
Unleash The Archers, Jinger, Sepultura, Bloodywood, Upon a Burning Body, Walls of Jericho, Rage Against The Machine, Kittie.
Some power and symphonic metal bands with women:
-Battle Beast
-Brothers of Metal
-Temperance
-Nightwish
-Ignea
-Amaranthe
I'm having a harder time coming up with non-white, though that might be because I don't keep track of band members. I'll have to check out the other responses later.
Spirit Box, Conquer Divide, Sleep Theory, Sevendust, House of Protection, PinkNoise, Mirar, Ankor, Lacuna Coil, Cassyette
oceans of slumber is a great start
One of my favorites hasn't been mentioned. Or at least I didn't see it.
- Crypta
All female Brazilian band. I don't know or care about their sexuality.
roman candle, brutus, delta hate, oceano, entheos, filth
Ruby the Hatchet, Castle Rat, Messa, Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard, Year of the Cobra
- Black Death
- Skinflint
- Body Count
- Smoulder
- Chastain
- Leather
- Taist of Iron
- Crystal Pride
- Cycle Sluts from Hell
Agriculture is a great band, check it out.
Alicia Corisco's solo stuff plus the bands she's in - Transgressive and Judicator
Vanessa Funke
St. Unholyness
Ael-Fierlen
A Forest of Stars
Ashenheart
Aubzagl
Black Birch
Couch Slut
Cruel Mother
Cwfen
Demon Sluice
Ends Embrace
Feminazgul
Finster
GGGOLDDD
Godmorgon
Faith No More's Roddy Bottum is gay and their song Be Aggressive is about sucking cock.
Oddly enough, when it comes to metal/hardcore/pink there is a ton of diversity. These are some of my favourites!
- Misyrion
- Castle Rat
- Punitive damage
- Days spent
- Soul glo
Transgressive has one album but it slaps
SeeYouSpaceCowboy... is a really cool sasscore band fronted by a trans woman :3
Stabbing. Volatile Ways. PeelingFlesh. Acid King. Lord Dying. Year of the Knife. Terminal Sleep.
- Feminazgul
- Flouride
- Succumb
- Acid King
- Gravpel Militia
- Dragged Into Sunlight
Sure, here are a few. Znöwhite, Holy Moses, Eudaemon, Acid King, Lucifer, Ruby the Hatchet.
I can recommend:
There's an odd subgenre of 'women-fronted doom/stoner band clearly inspired by Sabbath'. Aside from Castle Rat, check out Druidess and Hail Darkness.
Try also: Theatre of Tragedy, Lacrimosa's ‘Not Every Pain Hurts’ (unfortunately rare in their oeuvre), UneXpect's ‘In a Flesh Aquarium’, Funeral, Haggard and perhaps Garmarna. And of course Babymetal.
Gothic/heavy metal band Sonja has a transfem frontwoman. Their debut LP Loud Arriver had a fantastic focus on her vocals.
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.
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
Two smaller bands I've seen locally you may want to look up are 'Pryma' (female fronted) and 'Lesbian Bed Death' mainly female members only one dude.
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