Anna-Varney Cantodea most commonly associated with Sopor Aeternus and The Ensemble of Shadows.
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
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!
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!
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!
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.
And that's all I've got.
On my phone.
If you need more, my phone has less than 15% of my total collection...
Holy shit Z this is good work!
I get a bit obsessive is all.
These are all bands from different subgenres of metal:
Feminazgul
Mrs Frighthouse
Davghter
Karnstein
Lust Hag
Genital Shame
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.
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.
Well, that's disappointing. I tend to be out of the loop about these things. Thanks for letting me know.
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 :)
I figure it’s worth mentioning Animal Sun; she slaps real hard and makes bangers.
Seconded. Hugely seconded. God I love Animal Sun
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
Loooooovvee your username
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 :-)
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.
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.
I went to a few of her concerts in the last few years and it's been a blast. Her newest album definitely has some bangers on it
Life long music nerd, ex keyboarder and now drummer here. May I introduce you to Axis of awesome? :)
Of course I forgot you were musical! Would you be interested in doing a post about female artists of different genres? Don't know if you'd have time
Absolutely once I'm back home again. Give me a few hours. :)
You star! No rush at all just whenever you can
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.
Arca (trans fem artist) - IDM techno and other genres.
Heilung https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=KJc52DW8Nxg
Anne Feely
Marilyn Manson (if the name counts as a technicality)
Night wish, I guess
Genders of people making music is nothing I pay any attention to, so I might have missed some.
Marilyn manson has some banging tunes but is a horrible person
I know Geese has a trans guitarist, but other than that I don't really know of a lot of female or trans artists.
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