need more diversity. Tired of seeing cishet white males

EDIT: Here's what we know:

  • Gaylord
  • Electromancy
  • Dispossessed
  • Davghter

[2026/10/03] Update:

Femme vocalists:

  • Witching Black/Sludge/Doom
  • Faetooth Doom/Sludge/Post-Metal, dubbed as "Fairy Doom Metal"

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[–] 8 points 4 months ago (1 child)

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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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago* (3 children)

    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

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

    Unleash The Archers, Jinger, Sepultura, Bloodywood, Upon a Burning Body, Walls of Jericho, Rage Against The Machine, Kittie.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Spirit Box, Conquer Divide, Sleep Theory, Sevendust, House of Protection, PinkNoise, Mirar, Ankor, Lacuna Coil, Cassyette

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    [–] 4 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    roman candle, brutus, delta hate, oceano, entheos, filth

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago*

    Ruby the Hatchet, Castle Rat, Messa, Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard, Year of the Cobra

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    • Black Death
    • Skinflint
    • Body Count
    • Smoulder
    • Chastain
    • Leather
    • Taist of Iron
    • Crystal Pride
    • Cycle Sluts from Hell
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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

    Agriculture is a great band, check it out.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    Saving this for later.

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    iwrestledabearonce

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    Faith No More's Roddy Bottum is gay and their song Be Aggressive is about sucking cock.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    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
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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Transgressive has one album but it slaps

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    SeeYouSpaceCowboy... is a really cool sasscore band fronted by a trans woman :3

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    Stabbing. Volatile Ways. PeelingFlesh. Acid King. Lord Dying. Year of the Knife. Terminal Sleep.

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    • Feminazgul
    • Flouride
    • Succumb
    • Acid King
    • Gravpel Militia
    • Dragged Into Sunlight
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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    If you’re up for some proggy stuff of the highest shelf => Cynic.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    Bad Brains

    Black Moth

    God Forbid

    Blackwater Holylight

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    Sure, here are a few. Znöwhite, Holy Moses, Eudaemon, Acid King, Lucifer, Ruby the Hatchet.

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    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.

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  • [–] 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.

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  • [–] [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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  • [–] [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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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    Metal adjacent? The Skins are underrated.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (2 children)

    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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