Female Singers

[Simon Bar Sinister]

Tarja Turunen (formerly of Nightwish)

Nemo

Dark Chest Of Wonders

...and also

- Phantom of the Opera live.

[GothicRavenGoddess (3)]

Within Temptation!!!

and of course, this band:

Edited December 6, 2008 by GothicRavenGoddess

[TomCat]

Lance Bass is my favorite. For realz.

[DarkVampire]

Tina Root has such a mesmerizing voice. A lot of my poetry was influenced by that band and her voice.

[jynxxxedangel]

SARAH BRIGHTMAN!!!!!!!!!!!

Ave Maria

P.S. I so want to do a photo shoot with gold leaf, now..

Edited December 6, 2008 by jynxxxedangel

[Head Wreck]

KatieJane Garside

[asphyxian_doll]

Draconian, L'ame Immortelle....

[DarkVampire]

Good suggestions so far, thanks.

[IsleofRhodesEnt]

for the metal heads among us

Arch Enemy

Flyleaf

For the detroit natives.

Relik

and I can't remember the name of the band..but this chick Aziza is REALLY good

also..if you caught 2nd System back when Troll and Megan were in it..that was a POWERHOUSE group...like Orgy meets Lacuna Coil

for the jazzy lovers

Dana Owens (better known as Queen Latifah...don't laugh...she's got some INSANE cords)

Danielle Brisbois (you can hear her stuff on "As Good as it Gets")

Josephine Cronholm ("if I apologized" was on the "Mirrormask" soundtrack)

[SaGa]

I must be getting mellowed out as time goes by. I used to listen to heavy metal, death metal, gloom, etc for such a long time. Now I am getting into the Gothic, Dark Wave, Electro bands that have female singers like Chiasm, Collide, Lacuna Coil, Mephisto Waltz and others. I like the beauty & beast singing of bands like Lacuna Coil and older Theatre of Tragedy. What other bands out there have female leads?

theres a lot. most are not on major record labels.

ooh i forgot faith and the muse, and inkubus sukkubus on my list. i frequently listen to them.

both therion and ayreon has had many amazing female vocalists. mostly ayreon due to the composer hires his band mates just for a album. but therion has always had amazing female vocalists. even there gothic kabballah has one, i cant remember names thou, sorry folks

Edited December 8, 2008 by SaGa

[taysteewonderbunny]

thou is not a name. thou be a pronoun.

[CixWicked]

I forgot them. I have all of their CDs. Too bad they aren't around any more.

I've been looking for MP3's or CD's or something. I was really into them in the nineties, until I met them. Thenn... not so much. The girls seemed actually afraid of me. Big crush to my male ego. Stopped listening to them all together then.

Anyone know where I can get MP3's of em?

[CixWicked]

Agelikki

Cindergarden

Sid Maudlin

Subliminal

Relik (Detroit)

Then there's like

Kittie, Evenescence(SP),

A few who are not together anymore:

Nitecide Eclipse

Snake River Conspiracy

I'm just not really all that into female singers... I don't really know why.

[CixWicked]

I'm just not really all that into female singers... I don't really know why.

Let me recant that comment...

It's not that I don't like female singers... There are some who amaze me, and I love them (Handsul und gretyl, for example), but the thing that disturbs me about bands fronted by female vocalists... They can be mediocre vocalists and will still get noteriety because they are women and useually really super hot women.

Let me see one band with a but ugly female vocalist doing well... never happens.

Of course, I myself may not be able to talk. I'm sure that a lot of people listen to Misconceived because there's a black guy singing, who happens to be Super Hawt. Bothers the piss out of me when people come up and request that we do songs by Living color, Sevendust, Body Count and Killswitch engage, but that's a topic for another discussion.

[vampvoluptuous]

I must be getting mellowed out as time goes by. I used to listen to heavy metal, death metal, gloom, etc for such a long time. Now I am getting into the Gothic, Dark Wave, Electro bands that have female singers like Chiasm, Collide, Lacuna Coil, Mephisto Waltz and others. I like the beauty & beast singing of bands like Lacuna Coil and older Theatre of Tragedy. What other bands out there have female leads?

I love all the ladies who have done tracks with Massive Attack...amazing voices there. Dead can Dance's Lisa GERRARD has a amazing voice.

[freydis]

Just heard a few tracks from "Schoolyard Heroes" too.....

[DarkVampire]

Chiasm is just awesome. I need to get her new CD. Damn these lame music stores here. I'll have to order online.

[Der Nister]

KMFDM - Lucia is awesome.

Also, my music features female vocals.

[Joey Deadcat]

Magick Daggers

Magik Markers

Subtonix

Duchess Says

Blessure Grave (male and female vocals)

Fangs On Furs

Darlings' Cabinet Of Sundry Horror has some female vocals

Voodoo Zombie

The Creepshow

Mad Marge & The Stonecutters

Thee Merry Widows

HorrorPops

Black Ice

[jynxxxedangel]

About once a month, I get raucously drunk (all by myself), turn up the Hi-Fi, and "Chickfest." I have a terrible weakness for seminal chick singers. Here is a short list ( ) of just a few of my fave female singers, or the bands they are famous for being a part of:

Emmylou Harris

Linda Ronstadt

Grace Slick

Debra Harry

Patsy Cline

Billy Holiday

Sarah Vaughan

Ella Fitzgerald

Patti Labelle

Martha Gonzalez

Kate Rusby

Nancy Griffith

Kitty Wells

The Carter Sisters

Suzanne Vega

Chaka Khan

Ana Torroja

Olivia Newton John

Liz Phair

Skeeter Davis

Imogen Heap

The Caravelles

Jesse Colter

Cyndi Lauper

Renee Fleming

Liza Minnelli

Jeanne Pruett

Erin McKeown

Donna Summer

First Choice

Celtic Woman

Norah Jones

Poe

Scandal

The Motels

Vanity 6

Holly Cole

Vixen

Melissa Etheridge

The Runaways

Warlock (I LOVE Doro Pesch!)

The Gits

k.d. lang

Heart

Pat Benatar

Concrete Blonde

Grace Jones

Nina Hagen

Judy Garland

The Distillers

Connee Boswell

Jo Stafford

Lucinda Williams

Dusty Springfield

Dolly Parton

Nina Simone

Bonnie Tyler

Alison Krauss

Fleetwood Mac

The Andrews Sisters

Marianne Faithfull

..and many, many, many more.

Edited May 11, 2009 by jynxxxedangel

[DarkVampire]

How rare is it to see a black female lead singer in a heavy metal band?

is such a band. It really surprised me to see a black female headbanging. She has a nice voice when she's not doing that death metal growl type singing.

[Joey Deadcat]

There was an older thread on female vocalists and female-led bands - where was it...?

[Simon Bar Sinister]

How rare is it to see a black female lead singer in a heavy metal band?

target="_blank is such a band. It really surprised me to see a black female headbanging. She has a nice voice when she's not doing that death metal growl type singing.

Skunk Anansie has reunited for a few UK gigs. Unlikely to do anything beyond that, though. :(