Metal with female vocals

I recently discovered a band from the 80s called Chastain, first two albums are a bit mixed quality wise but they have some pretty strong tracks.

Videos in the spoiler below.


 
Wow, do I need to make a list here sometime. I only see mainstream and/or well known symphonic and black metal bands. (facepalm) It's not your fault. most good female-fronted stuff is often never advertised properly, if at all. Search more, folks! Try looking in places with more independent content. 96% of everything good with us girls is often NEVER mainstream or on a major label.
 
Wogmidget said:
Well, apart from Warlock, Halestorm, Battle Beast, Blood Ceremony, Unleash the Archers, Devil's Blood, and these:

But feel free to grace us with your clearly superior knowledge
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The first link isn't working for me. Very much liked the Vixen song though. I'm also quite enjoying Blood Ceremony, whom I'd never listened to before.

For me, Halestorm / Battle Beast are the big two and we are getting albums from both this year. Unleash the Archers is on their way there if they continue with the sudden change in quality they've had since Apex. I've also warmed towards Seven Spires, who I learned of from @terrell39 's post. Outside of that and some obvious suspects like Nightwish, a lot of the rest can be fairly described as pop metal which I don't post here largely because I assume not many people are interested.
 
DJMayes said:
The first link isn't working for me
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Crystal Viper - Forgotten Land. They're essentially a shit-hot NWOBHM band 30 years late and several hundred miles east (from Poland, to be precise). I'm a very big fan, and would heartily recommend their most recent release .
 
Needed to resurrect this decade old thread, especially since it is dominated by terrible mainstream cheese such as Nightwish, Lacuna Coil and German Schlager Queen Doro.

I would strongly recommend the following bands, all fronted by awesome female vocalists:

Thorr's Hammer

Burning Witches

Holy Moses (at least the album finished with the dogs)

Shever

And especially the great THRONEHAMMER!

Thronehammer may be the best female fronted Metal band in recent years, especially because of changing between female growls and clean vocals.
 
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Eddie's Uncle said:
Needed to resurrect this decade old thread, especially since it is dominated by terrible mainstream cheese such as Nightwish, Lacuna Coil and German Schlager Queen Doro.

I would strongly recommend the following bands, all fronted by awesome female vocalists:

Thorr's Hammer

Burning Witches

Holy Moses (at least the album finished with the dogs)

Shever

And especially the great THRONEHAMMER!

Thronehammer may be the best female fronted Metal band in recent years, especially because of changing between female growls and clean vocals.
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Love Burning Witches! Can hear a strong Judas Priest influence.
Seen them live 2x and they work their own merch booth so met them both times!
 
Anyone into Saraya? Here's "Tear Down The Wall", off When the Blackbird Sings (1991). More hard rock than metal, but the vocals are amazing.

 
Sengir was an amazing band, unfortunately I never saw them live.
And another great Belgium band! Their guitar player Steve went on tour for a few gigs with Blaze!
 
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