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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:

• Destroy Boys (been on my list for a while, haven't got around to listening to much yet)
• The Distillers
• Nekra (sadly they seem to only have a demo and this one EP: https://open.spotify.com/album/153G7zAHPl4hinlqhn1lvy)

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)

• 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.

Babymetal and Band-Maid.

Birthday Massacre, Within Temptation, Lacuna Coil, Eths, Infected Rain, Amaranthe

Check out Unleash The Archers

Spiritbox and Conquer Divide!

Jinjer

Battle Beast

Otep

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.

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

If you're willing to go more the punk route, look into the riot grrl genre. Sleater-Kinney is a good starting point.

Kittie, Jack Off Jill, One Eyed Doll

Kylesa

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.

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

Female fronted, Halestorm

All female, Kittie

Nobody in here gonna mention Scene Queen?

Drain STH.

Cloud Rat

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

Nemophila

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.

Mary Prankster. Tits and Whiskey.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tVhMAS1iT8s

The Warning

Burning Witches is good

When I'm not yelling at clouds, I like Tsunami Bomb

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RCQedL2w81I

Burning Witches is a classic metal band (inspired by the likes of Judas Priest) that is 100% women. Infected Rain is fronted by a woman as are Mysterain and Ad Infinitum. (I've got loads more but I read the responses first and sliced away the ones that were already mentioned like Unleash the Archers, etc.)

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

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

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

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).

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.

Entheos!