I’m hoping someone can do a post about female/trans artists people may not have heard of. If you’re a music buff please offer your services! Comment here or message me.

  • Leraje@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    8·
    8 days ago

    These are all bands from different subgenres of metal:

    Feminazgul
    Mrs Frighthouse
    Davghter
    Karnstein
    Lust Hag
    Genital Shame

    • MystValkyrie@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      1·
      8 days ago

      Awesome list! Some new names here that I need to check out.

      Venom Prison is another really good band along the same lines.

      Their Animus album has really powerful anti-fascist themes, which is honestly really cathartic to listen to.

      • Leraje@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        3·
        8 days ago

        Tread carefully with Venom Prison. Larissa has made some TERF-y statements and followed groups like Gays Against Groomers. It was a few years ago but I’ve never seen any explanation or addressing of the issue.

  • SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    4·
    8 days ago

    Not a buff by any stretch.

    Bands I would recommend trying if you haven’t heard of them before:

    Fuel Fandango (partly sung in Spanish)

    The Detroit Cobras

    Robots in Disguise

    Nova Twins

    The Ting Tings

    C2C (specifically the album Tetra)

    Yaught (there’s more than one band with that name, the one I’m thinking of made the song I Thought the Future Would be Cooler).

    Heart

    Wet Leg

    …

    Off the top of my head, that’s a good start :-)

  • ZDL@lazysoci.al
    4·
    8 days ago

    All-female, female-fronted, or solo female artists: a list

    • Ad Infinitum (symphonic metal)

    • Aexylium (folk metal)

    • Alterium (symphonic power metal)

    • Amaranthe (EDM metal)

    • Andry (progressive metal, hard rock)

    • Annie Lennox (legend)

    • Asthenia (gothic metal, symphonic metal)

    • Battle Beast (melodic power metal)

    • Bikini Kill (riot grrrl, punk)

    • Blondie (legend)

    • Burning Witches (classic metal)

    • Delain (symphonic metal)

    • Descartes A Kant (experimental punk, post-punk, metal, post-metal, pop, cabaret, shoegaze)

    • Dryadia (symphonic metal)

    • Dummy Toys (street punk, riot grrrl)

    • Dymna Lotva (doom metal, post-black metal, atmospheric/folk metal, gothic metal)

    And that’s up to “D”. 22 more letters of the alphabet to go. :D

    • ZDL@lazysoci.al
      3·
      8 days ago

      • Eastern Moths (progressive oriental metal) (I know, but that’s the genre name! Ugh.)

      • Eleine (symphonic goth metal)

      • Enya (Celtic new age ambient)

      • Epica (symphonic metal)

      • Erragal (pagan metal)

      • Exulansis (folk metal)

      • Frozen Crown (power metal, melodic death metal)

      • Garbage (alternative, grunge)

      • Girlschool (classic metal) (also the longest-running all-female group in metal)

      • Halestorm (hard rock, alternative metal)

      • Heilung (experimental folk/folk metal/ritual ambient)

      • Hildr Valkyrie (blackened folk metal)

      • Holyarrow (symphonic metal, gothic metal, black metal)

      • Ieschure (occult black metal) (single-woman project, she plays all instruments and does all vocals)

      • Imee Ooi (Buddhist ambient)

      • In This Moment (alternative metal, metalcore, hard rock)

      • Infected Rain (nu-metal, alternative metal)

      • Isabelle Huang (pop with strong folk elements) (also a goddess)

      And that’s up to I. 17 more letters of the alphabet to go!

      • ZDL@lazysoci.al
        3·
        8 days ago

        • Jane Siberry (herself, OK and art pop) (but really she’s her own genre)

        • Jenner (speed metal, thrash metal)

        • Jinjer (progressive metalcore)

        • Joan Jett & The Blackhearts (legend)

        • Kate Bush (art pop, progressive pop)

        • Kobra and the Lotus (classic metal, hard rock)

        • Krith Nazgul (melodic blackened death metal)

        • Leah (symphonic celtic folk metal)

        • Lothloryen (symphonic gothic power metal)

        • Lotus of Darkness (raw blackened folk metal)

        • Loura Lou (pop) (is actually primarily an actress but a pretty good singer who collabs with loads of others)

        • Lucid Sins (symphonic gothic metal)

        • Mutilasi Jelangkung (death metal, thrash metal)

        • Myrkur (Nordic blackened folk)

        • Mystica Girls (melodic metal)

        We’re half-way through the alphabet!

        • ZDL@lazysoci.al
          3·
          8 days ago

          • Nena (pop) (she apparently has 99 red balloons)

          • Obscure Dream (symphonic gothic metal)

          • OU (yes, filtered through progressive metal) (they’re also the answer to the question “What would King Crimson sound like if shrunk down to 4 and 3 of them were Chinese?”)

          • Pumarosa (electronic rock, post-punk, art-rock)

          • Queen Sea Big Shark (rockabilly, indie rock, no-wave, surf rock, electronic, pop, hip-hop)

          • Rhea’s Obsession (darkwave, world music, gothic)

          • Rosa Nocturna (symphonic power folk metal)

          • Sarah Brightman (classical pop crossover, show)

          • Semblant (gothic metal, melodic death metal)

          • September Mourning (alternative metal, hard rock, gothic) (legendary sound engineer to turned to performance)

          • Shireen (dark folk, “witchpop”, experimental)

          And that’s up to S, so 7 letters to go!

          • ZDL@lazysoci.al
            3·
            8 days ago

            • Tanya Tagaq (Inukpunk, throat singing, experimental, avant-garde)

            • The Cranberries (alternative rock, pop rock, indie)

            • The Illusion of Dawn (symphonic gothic metal)

            • The Linda Lindas (punk rock, indie rock, riot grrrl)

            • The Order of Chaos (thrash metal, melodic metal)

            • The Runaways (hard rock, glam rock, proto-punk)

            • Tomb of Lucifer (raw atmospheric occult black metal)

            • Unleash the Archers (melodic death/power metal fusion)

            • Xandria (symphonic metal)

            That’s all the letters that are unaccented and not in foreign alphabets. Now for the weirder ones where I have to transliterate, etc.

            • ZDL@lazysoci.al
              1·
              8 days ago
              • Área 7 (rock, alternative metal, nu-metal)
              • Ye Li & An Jiu (chinese folk/pop, 古风)
              • Mysterain (symphonic folk metal, gothic folk metal)
              • Guai Li (punk, indie, avant-punk)
              • Catching String (nu metal)
              • Faye Wong (pop, alternative, art pop)
              • Purple Hell (melodic death metal)

              And that’s all I’ve got.

              On my phone.

              If you need more, my phone has less than 15% of my total collection…

  • MystValkyrie@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    3·
    8 days ago

    So I’m really into symphonic metal, which can super corny haha, but I love it, especially when the lead singer is a woman. I find the operatic high notes really breathtaking.

    I grew up listening to Nightwish, Within Temptation, Lacuna Coil, etc., which eventually sent me on a rabbit hole to newer and lesser-known bands like Empress, Oryad, Starkill, Blackbriar, and Frozen Crown.

    Two cool bands with trans artists: The lead singer of Owlbear, Katy Scary, and Cab Ride Home, which is no longer active because the lead singer, Danica Roem, is now a state senator in Virginia.

  • Suck_on_my_Presence@lemmy.world
    3·
    8 days ago

    This is a mixed bag of genres, sorry OP. I also don’t often research artists because I just care about the music, so I’m not super knowledgeable about them in general

    Kim Petras - slutpop (word is that she’s trans)

    Dirt Poor Robbins - folk?? Eclectic

    Tessa Violet - pop

    Amelia Day - folk

    Elise Trouw - rock, pop

    Haim - pop?

    Mäneskin - rock. The guitarist?bassist? Is female

    Steam-powered Giraffe - steampunk pop? Main is trans

    Jaira Burns - pop

    Upsahl - angry pop

    Caravan Palace - electroswing, pop

    Madison Beer - pop

    Peach Face

    Mitski

    Mothica

    … I mean. I could literally go forever.

    • MystValkyrie@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      2·
      8 days ago

      The Tessa Violet recommendation is such a blast from the past to a simpler time on the internet. I haven’t listened to any of her music since she went by Meekakitty. I miss 2009.

  • klemptor@startrek.website
    2·
    8 days ago

    Poison Girls (punk band fronted by Vi Subversa) - here are two of my favorites:

    And along the lines of punk, Crass has an album called Penis Envy which was a project by its female members Eve Libertine and Joy De Vivre and is an absolute masterpiece as far as I’m concerned.

    If soft acoustic is your thing, check out Humbird - for example, Right On.

    I’ll edit this with some more when I have time :)

  • WhosThatWITCH@lemmy.world
    1·
    7 days ago

    Laura Jane Grace!! If you like punk rock, and King Princess if you like pop! Also no one mentioned Mannequin Pussy, Amyl and the Sniffers, or Lambrini Girls, also punk rock