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Looking for suggestions of female fronted / all women heavy music

Posting this here because the metal community seems to be entirely links to tracks and I'm not sure how well received this would be there. Also, I'm open to anything that goes more on the punk rock side of things. I like a little punk in my metal and a little metal in my punk (which is very subjective anyway).

Basically as the title says. I'm bored of my current selection of heavy music and looking for new stuff. To per-emptively get ahead of these answers: yes, I've heard Kittie, Nightwish and Arch Enemy before (actually haven't listened to Kittie since the nu metal days and maybe I should check them out again).

Two bands that I have found in recent years that I absolutely love are:

In This Moment. They started out as pretty much straight metalcore but have a noticeable evolution with each album, to the point that the most recent album sounds like this. Evolution is something I appreciate in a band.

Butcher Babies. Just straight up chaotic. And good shit. And they're even named after an old school punk song. Chaos and attitude is something I also appreciate in a band. Pity that one of the vocalists left though, having two vocalists was something that really set them apart.

Any other suggestions?

Edit: wasn't expecting so many great suggestions here. I promise I'll make my way through each post and suggestion here but it's going to take time. In the mean time, thanks everyone. At this rate I'm going to have more than enough new (to me) stuff to listen to.

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  • I got kinda (very) overwhelmed by this thread. I was expecting like 5 responses, so you thank you very much for all the suggestions. I have finally made a list from all of this and will be replacing just about my entire music rotation with everything here. Once I find my favourites, I'll probably let you know some time in the future lol.

    Thought I might as well drop some names that are already in my collection that I haven't seen mentioned here, for the sake of anyone that might come past here in future. Including stuff that's more on the alternative / hard rock side of things.

    General Alternative / Rock:

    • 4 Non Blondes
    • Anneke van Giersbergen (singer of The Gathering)

    Old School:

    • Heart
    • Janis Joplin
    • Siouxsie Sioux and the Banshees

    Alternative because off-beat / weird:

    • Portishead
    • Tori Amos
    • Björk

    Punk:

    Hard Rock / Grunge:

    • DILLY DALLY
    • Guano Apes
    • Skunk Anansie

    Heavy:

    • Devilskin (band I discovered in New Zealand)
    • Octavia Sperati (singer went on to do an album or two for The Gathering)
  • Cloud Rat

    • Holy shit, this is wild. I like. A lot. Definitely introducing this to my rotation of music, thanks!

      • Glad to hear! They have a pretty big discography now, all worth checking out. Though I think my fave will always be the album Qliphoth.

  • Brothers of Metal (despite the name). If you're into symphonic stuff, Epica and Beyond the Black are worth looking into. I also love Halestorm, but I think they're somwhere between hard rock and heavy metal.

  • Posting this here because the metal community seems to be entirely links to tracks and I'm not sure how well received this would be there.

    All the users refrained from posting anything but links to tracks because the only users posting were just posting links to tracks and nobody wanted to make the first move.

  • Brutus. Stefanie Mannaerts is the lead Singer and drummer. Simultaneously! She is absolutely amazing and has so much power in her Voice. My favorite Band of 2025.

  • Nemophila is an Asian all female band that fucking stomps.

    Amaranthe is catchy as fuck melodic death metal with a female singer.

    Hanzel und Gretyl is industrial rock that’s on the heavy side and has a female vocalist.

    Jinjer is female fronted and heavy as fuck.

    Maid of Ace is an all girl crossover thrash punk band. Scowl is good too for this.

    Sumo Cyco is Canadian hard rock/heavy metal fronted by a chick who does the voice of Barbie in a bunch of animated Barbie movies.

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