The Blood is The Life 27-07-2012

[miss_s_b]

• Female Rock/Metal Bands (Outside Riot Grrrl) to Check Out - Feminist Rocker
  I would add McQueen. Although they only did one album it's bloody awesome.
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• Have you been dealt with by ATOS? Link to give evidence to the enquiry is in this article
  The article itself is well worth a read too.
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• BBC News - Does sunshine make us happier?
  Nope.
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• Why DC and Marvel will never truly target female readers
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Comments

[von_geisterhand]

Female-fronted:
Iwresteledabearonce
The Devil's Blood
Made out of babies
Daisy Chainsaw / Queen Adreena
The Gathering (for part of their career. I quite like the way they turned some of their male-growled death metal tunes into female-sung ballads).
Diamanda Galas (okay,not really metal per se but she has worked with Rotting Christ amongst others)
My Ruin/Tairrie B.

and ... Skunk Anansie.

[davegodfrey]

All-Female, there's two doom bands, Octavia Sperati (on the first album, their second has a male drummer), and Gallhammer from Japan, and Matriarch (Black Metal from Puerto Rico, now defunct), that I can think of immediately that she doesn't have on her list, or are mentioned in followups.

There are lots of female-fronted metal bands these days, but I wouldn't count Nightwish, as Tarja and Annette didn't write any of the music or lyrics, whereas with Arch Enemy for instance, Angela writes the lyrics and the boys do the tunes.

So if we go with bands that have notable female members (not just singers):
The Agonist, Pythia, Huntress, Alcest, To-Mera, Within Temptation, Yōsei Teikoku (Fairy Empire), and Interlock all have female singers. Interlock's bassist was also female. Sonic Syndicate, and Witchsorrow also have female bassists

There's a couple of unsigned bands- Blindness have a male drummer but that's it (their guitarist used to be in Echobelly), and Furious Horde have a female guitarist.

I'm sure there are a lot of punk bands though- X-Ray Spex, The Distillers, and the Plasmatics immediately spring to mind.

[davegodfrey]

I was wrong about Alcest. Their bassist for live gigs is female, but she isn't a permanent member of the band. Having just got back from Bloodstock, (where I saw them and Witchsorrow, who were great) I can add a couple of others- Chthonic (Taiwanese Death Metal) have a bassist who goes by the stage name of Doris, and Kobra and the Lotus, and The Commander-In-Chief

[miss_s_b]

Thank you for all your suggestions!

[davegodfrey]

If I can come up with any more I'll let you know.

[ginasketch]

I'd like to add Love Outside Andromeda to the list:

[ginasketch]

Fine, refuse to embed you bastard video. It's here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBtXCfXeyt0

Female rock(ish) bands?

[daweaver]

At this point, I feel the duty to point people towards punk-rock band Legend in Japan. Partly on the grounds that no-one else will, partly on the grounds that they're my main source of squee at the moment, but primarily that they're the best new act I've heard this year. Even better than Frances Wood.

The only reason why I hesitate is that their singer / songwriter / creative egg really really doesn't like being pigeon-holed as a female^* band, as though that were something notable in its own right. "Cor! A bunch of women playing punk rock. How exotic and novel." No: it's great music, which just so happens to be written and played by women.

On my travels with ver Legends, I've come across Zoëtrøpe (with røck ümlauts to distinguish from the Chicago band), and Hearts Under Fire, both are all-female rock-to-punk bands, both deserve a closer examination than I've yet been able to give.

^* And a male drummer. Since the linked publicity photos were taken, one of the members has been replaced.

Re: Female rock(ish) bands?

[miss_s_b]

I don't want to pigeon-hole anyone, I'm just sick of listening to (often misogynist) boys. One of the websites that came up when I was looking for metal podcasts the other day was promoting an album called "hymen breaker"...