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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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L7
Lunachicks
Veruca Salt
Bikini Kill
The Muffs
Cibbo Mato
Blonde Redhead
The Evens
Shonen Knife
Some of this is more punk or pop-punk.
- To add to this already awesome list
  The Gits
  Bad Cop Bad Cop
  Amyl and the Sniffers
  
  Missing babes in Toyland here

Babymetal and Band-Maid.
- Heard of Babymetal but first time I've heard of Band-Maid. Currently listening to a track called 'Thrill' (I think lol) and it rocks. Definitely gonna give these guys a solid try.
  
  Another Jpop/metal band is Necronomidol. Whereas babymetal is jpop with metal, I think they are more metal with jpop.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYN932VzxV0

Birthday Massacre, Within Temptation, Lacuna Coil, Eths, Infected Rain, Amaranthe
- Amaranthe's awesome. My workout playlist is mostly them.

Check out Unleash The Archers
- Fuck yeah this is cool. We actually need more female vocalists doing the old school falsetto style (although not really falsetto in this case, I guess).

Spirit Box, Rolo Tomassi, Cellar Darling.
Poppy, more her new music than old. Some people don't like her style but it's not strictly just hard metal.
- +1 for Spiritbox!

Spiritbox and Conquer Divide!

If you're willing to go more the punk route, look into the riot grrl genre. Sleater-Kinney is a good starting point.
- I have dabbled in Riotgrrl. I enjoy Bikini Kill but more in an 'appreciation of history' kind of way than in a 'my new favourite thing' kind of way. Really liking the sound of Sleater-Kinney here though. Just listened to the track 'Jumpers' and I'll definitely be listening to more. Thanks for the suggestion. Might even start a new topic specifically about Riotgrrl one of these days. Also starting to get a bit bored of my current punk selection.
  
  Try Sharptooth

I love Myrkur's stuff. How heavy it is varies widely from album to album, anywhere from straight traditional Danish folk music to the lighter end of black metal, but I like both ends of that spectrum
There's also Feminazgul, who I'm not super keen on but their name is so good that they deserve a mention anyway

Drain STH.
- Wow, that took me down nostalgia road...

Since i haven't seen it here and it's one of my favourite bands: iwrestledabearonce

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.

Otep

Nobody in here gonna mention Scene Queen?

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.

Female fronted, Halestorm
All female, Kittie

This is not exactly my kind of music but I just wanted to say how cool this whole thread is.. you’re all amazing

The Warning

The Iron Maidens
- Just watched their live version of Number of the Beast. Very cool! Tribute bands aren't something I would normally listen to but I'm already an Iron Maiden fan and this just might be a cool way to give their tracks a fresh listen to.

Kylesa
- Just listened to the tracks 'Unspoken' and 'Running Red'. This definitely has new obsession potential for me. Thanks very much for pointing me towards these guys.
  
  Best part is they just got back together after a 10-year hiatus

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.

More garage rock than metal/punk but the Pack AD is a lot of fun.

Mary Prankster. Tits and Whiskey.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tVhMAS1iT8s

Burning Witches is good

Nemophila
- Second this band. These chicks rule.

When I'm not yelling at clouds, I like Tsunami Bomb
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RCQedL2w81I

Calva Louise is also good. The music videos are crazy cool

Arkona, Kontrust, Genitorturers. All from quite different subgenres.

Nobro is pretty good, they toured a bunch with Billy Talent so if you like that flavour of garage punk they might be up your alley

Blackbriar, Unleash the archers, Ad Infinitum, Spiritbox, Amaranthe

So female fronted metal is my jam. Your examples have a solid range, but here's some of my picks:
After Forever
Beyond the Black
Ad Infinitum
Delain
Within Temptation
Unsun
Cellar Darling (and earlier Eluveitie if you don't mind male and female singers mixing)
Amaranthe
Stream of Passion
Illumishade
Lacuna Coil
Leaves' Eyes
The Murder of My Sweet
You'll find a ton of female fronted bands in what (I think) is referred to as "scandi-metal) (Sacndinavian Metal).

I don't think I've heard of In This Moment or Butcher Babies, I will check them out.
Meanwhile if you're not allergic to melodic BM, I really like Dämonik, example track: https://youtu.be/kRNHUFt8oPs So far they have two singles out and I believe they're working on an album. There is also old demo EP from 2018, but it's a little rough compared to these.
I'll try to check what else I've got that is all female / female fronted. I think there are a few more I like, but can't recall what atm

War on Women is a group I really like from Baltimore. feminist punk metal. https://waronwomen.bandcamp.com/track/white-lies
- Loved War on Women but they are tainted for me personally after I read this. https://lambgoat.com/news/35416/ex-war-on-women-guitarist-nancy-hornburg-speaks-out-against-band/
  
  Noooooooooooooooooo! Aw man.

Jinjer is at least fronted by a woman

Lambrini Girls, a little more political punk than metal. A little lighter than that but mannequin pussy when you're feeling a little more melodic

Hanabie
Especially this live performance and their album from 2021 has some real bangers.

If you dig industrial, check out
Youth Code
Light Asylum

Entheos!

Synlakross is pretty decent but it's got both male and female vocals .
Castle Rat is a fantastic thrash metal band also (I think they're thrash. All the subgenres get confusing)

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.

Vana The Pretty Wild Enemy Inside Not Enough Space Poppy Foie Gras (gothy music)

https://rolotomassi.bandcamp.com/album/where-myth-becomes-memory

If you like death and a more extreme sound you have to listen to Crypta. All female band and they are honestly one of the best out there. Impeccable riffs, drums and singing.

No one mentioned iwrestledabearonce yet, so a toss out if that. Rad metalcore band from when metalcore was rad. For (much) less metal/more punk or riot grrl vibes check out Amyl and the Sniffers and Be Your Own PET. Don’t come at me if I used genre names wrong with those.
- Spiritbox has been mentioned elsewhere in the comments, but I'm not sure how common knowledge it is that they were started by former iwrestledabearonce members.

Not sure about the genre but I recently discovered Blackwater Holylight and I quite like them
https://youtu.be/8EMq6Q_6d0Q

Animal Alpha - Bundy is a favorite I return to every now and then. I don’t know the rest of their music
- Loved this song on while playing burnout

Jinjer, Arch Enemy, Unleash the Archers, spiritbox (and iwabo), Devil Electric

Could be slightly soft for your taste, a bit Hole-ish maybe, but I saw McQueen a couple of times (once supporting Mad Capsule Markets) and liked them since. Only one album sadly
'Neurotic' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaqTO4UwHMY
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McQueen_(band)

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.

Bones UK, I dunno if they're a full female band but the two main ones are.

Excellent question! Have you tried [email protected] the mod there is lovely
- Hello... Hope you're hanging in there and taking care of yourself this evening. Sorry for taking so long to respond to this, I meant to get back to this thread sooner.
  It's a real pity that I can't even see that community (and a couple of others there) from here. I wish you could convince your friend to open an alt community in more neutral ground. Or try to make some sort of amends with all of the instances that are de-federated with hilariouschaos. There's some big ones de-federated from it, even piefed.social, which I tried the other day.
  If you're interested, now that I'm attending to this post, it seems likely that my next fixation on something to categorise and make lists of is going to be this very topic lol. I'll probably only be done in a couple of months from now but if you would like, I could post my results in Women's Stuff (or I could pass it on to you to post, if you prefer). Otherwise if you think it's a better idea, I could post it to gpral from another account, although I wish I could do that without feeling bad about Blåhaj people being blocked off from it.
  And, just gonna ping your new account in case you never look at the old one anymore: @[email protected]
  
  Mate that would be great! We'd love to see your stuff if you do it deffo post it.

Jenner, theyre a Serbian thrash metal band.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnWy81FF61U&t=2
- Along similar lines, System Divide, though I think they only had one album.

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