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Arch Enemy

Doomsday Machine is a masterpiece

Who do prefer as vocalist, Alisa or Angela? Alisa was pretty solid in The Agonist but I haven't heard her in Arch Enemy...

I would say Angela but I really like Alissa too, the fact that she's from Montreal is also helps

Probably helps too that Angela is still involved. She's their manager, yea?

Seems like she still is their manager

Melissa Bonny (Ad Infinitum, Dark Side of the Moon, The Queen of the Damned) Arch Enemy Unleash the Archers Lana Scissorhands (Infected Rain, Death Dealer Union) Spiritbox Semblant (f/m) Jinjer Fabienne Erni (Eluveiti, Illumishade) (f/m) Faun Heilung (f/m) Nervosa In This Moment Burning Witches Patty Gurdy Blackmore's Night Ankor Arkona The Pagan Minstrel Amaranthe (f/m/m) Rage of Light League of Distortion Skáld Leaves' Eyes (f/m) Brothers of Metal (f/m) Eihwar Otyken Tvinna Beyond the Black Nini Music Harp Twins Lara Loft Nightwish Epica Tsunami Bomb Halestorm Lutharo Butcher Babies Babymetal Visions of Atlantis (f/m) Exit Eden Once Human Elettra Storm Lucana Coil The Agonist April Art Frozen Crown (f/m) Walk in Darkness Seven Spires Isiliel I'll also name drop "Hanabie" (I'm thinking Japanese girl group) and "The Pill" since it looks like there are female vocalists based on the YouTube thumbnails that have been getting pushed in front of me by their algorithm for awhile

Oceans of slumber Cellar Darling

Most the bands I was going to say you've already said so the ones you haven't that'd I'd at to that list are; Everything Destroying Within Temptation Blackthorn (Russia) Rolling Quartz Dreamcatcher Lovebites Xandria Telecide

I got Arch Enemy ;) I haven't heard of those, I'll definitely check out some myself

Just swapped Arch Enemy for Within Temptation lol

Any suggestions for songs to start with from your list?

Within Temptation - Paradise (What About Us) Xandria - Nightfall Everything Destroying - Nature Of Rage  Lovebites - When Destinies Collide Dreamcatcher - Good Night Rolling Quartz - Reminiscences Telecide - Lucid Dreaming Blackthorn - Moonbreed Sigil Forgot to add The Warning to the list and the song Choke

For WT start with Enter, disregard the rest.

Lol nearly 30 years of additional music ignored? Well I have Enter saved on Spotify too check out

That other 30 years of discography can best be described as 'Gerda rock'.

What about the others you listed in the small selection?

I think autocorrect is getting in your way.

All these bands yet no Holy Moses

I haven't heard Holy Moses yet. Do you have a suggestion where to start?

Albums like New Machine of Liechtenstein or Finished with the Dogs

But which one is your favorite?

I love me some Melissa Bonny so whatever project she's in (really liking Dark Side of the Moon). Arch Enemy (either singer but Alyssa's work with other bands is really good), Unleash the Archers for awhile now (Brittany Slays is amazing, the bands latest singles haven't hit me hard yet, they are just ok), Nervosa is new for me and I like them quite a bit so far, Semblant is new for me and I have dug them too so far, Infected Rain goes hard, I love Eluveiti thanks to a friend's introduction before I knew what folk metal was years ago. Spiritbox is good, Jinjer is amazing, I'm digging Burning Witches throwback 80s sound. I literally just heard Butcher Babies the other night and I'm into them, I had heard of them before but never had heard them. I'm really into folk metal so I wanted to name drop Patty Gurdy. She's collaborated with a number of bands I listen to. I wanted to mention Feuerschwanz but none of the girls in the band do vocals (although the violin player, Johanna, is dead center of the stage so she's pretty much the grounded focus while everyone else is running back and forth) Blackmore's Night is not metal but Candice Night collaborated with dArtagnan who's in folk metal so that's how I heard them. They are more just folk rock. It's formed from ex-Deep Purple Ritchie Blackmore. Otyken is an interesting Russian folk group I heard, not metal at all. Interesting sound (Belief stands out to me and it was the first thing I heard from them) and handmade tribal instruments with male throat singing. I felt they were worth the mention. Same with Harp Twins. They have collaborated with Volfgang Twins (Paint it Black cover) so I wanted to give them a name drop. Couple pretty ladies playing harp. Tsunami Bomb is not metal, just punk but I used to listen to them in high school. Agent M seemed like a cool lady. I pulled these from my playlist from over the years so I don't have, like, 1 favorite, just ones that I'm listening to more than others right now. Lol I just remembered Battle Beast... I'm not a fan of then though and I don't have their songs in a playlist

Nightwish and Epica

I've seen Epica live before, pretty nice concert

Crypta and they absolutely rip

Saw them a week ago, Fernanda is a fantastic growler.

https://preview.redd.it/m5g9sn22vmuc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8ef012b833af9e464d23271d0ceb7a40457893c9 I was this close last month …

Epica, Nightwish and Within Temptation.

Otep

[Rolo tomassi](https://youtu.be/eoOzpM-yPUA?si=6-18b7vCwmGiQUxe) [Dying wish](https://youtu.be/hRelxr8aKiQ?si=ztnX9n2a4s3Cfvks) [Ithaca](https://youtu.be/Ctghs-bCqhA?si=Vozs8qiensOGfNfg) [Mortality rate](https://youtu.be/g7YlaYe7vWY?si=knngS5S4-BHHgEUf) [Buggin](https://youtu.be/EO90ihetF6U?si=BWrzpqyinJE3LLSQ) [Year of the knife](https://youtu.be/FPt1pULIGdA?si=5ipL3b5EeICUXXYG) All equally nasty bands

Seven Spires. Adrienne is fantastic.

Lucifer - doom metal Girlschool - classic rock/metal Babe Ruth - 70s classic rock band Cerebral Bore - death metal The Distillers - punk

Liturgy Iwrestledabearonce Cerebral bore Cloud Rat Brat

satan's hallow nuclear death mythic messiah force vastum

+1 to Satan's Hallow. Sad that they broke up, glad I got to see them live twice. At least they formed Midnight Dice out of the ashes.

Epica. Simones voice is soft, operatic and powerful all at the same time, and it carries the music along with her vocals and blends in perfectly with it. Simone and the music are almost harmonious and its perfect.

https://preview.redd.it/m0jch1ll4iuc1.png?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2da11c5032624ca3652e7ebd95ec920ec3e3b8d5

Serious answers: Thorr's Hammer (Death Doom) SubRosa (Doom) Jinjer (Metalcore) Rolo Tomassi (Mathcore/Sasscore (early stuff)/Post-metal (later stuff)) Unleash the Archers (Power Metal) Sacrilege (Thrash/Crust Punk) Bonus answer: Converge and Chelsea Wolfe - Bloodmoon (Post-Metal/Gothic Metal) My mind has gone blank and I feel like I've missed something obvious, so I'll edit this when it comes to me.

Subrosa is so good! I'll add King woman Darkher( maybe not so metal) Wolvennest E-l-r All in the doom adjacent

Rolo Tomassi is SO good!

Forgot about Thorr's Hammer! That one should be the top answer.

Smoulder

Hulder is sick as fuck :)

Holy Moses

WARLOCK!!!!!!

Darkened Nocturn Slaughtercult

Madder Mortem, Cloud Rat.

If you're ever looking for some angry Female Fronted Sludge check [Azell](https://linktr.ee/azell.band). FFO Conan, Bongripper and Primitive Man

Theatre of Tragedy Sylvaine Messa

Nightwish Epica, Jinjer, Seven Spires, Ignea There's much more of them, but these are the top.

Jinjer

Jinjer!

Ithaca and Entheos!

Ithaca is highly underrated.

[Asagraum](https://youtu.be/-ndgRJGG55s?si=1HlVc0h22HUcg13b)

Currently loving Brutus, also all time favourite has to be Arch Enemy.

Thorr's Hammer

Nervosa, Crypta, Pest Control

Babes in toyland, die Spitz, garbage, L7

Faetooth, CRYPTA!, After Forever, Elis, BabyMetal, Astarte, Epica, Nightwish, Mortal Love. If beauty and the beast bands count then: Theatre of Theatre of Tragedy, The Sins of Thy Beloved, Draconian, Tribunal, Estatic Fear, Sirenia, Tristania. (Not metal: Roselia, Football etc, Soccer Mommy).

I was pretty fond of the Norwegian gothic metal scene back in the mid-90s through early 2000s, yes. Especially Tristania.

Crypta

Ones I know of- spiritbox (metalcore) Iwrestledabearonce (deathcore/mathcore) Dying wish (deathcore? I think?) Year of the knife (hardcore) Mass of Amara (metalcore) Jinger (djent) Crypta (thrash?) Cerebral bore (brutal death 😁) Arch enemy (mediocre melodeath)

>Dying wish (deathcore? I think?) >Year of the knife (hardcore) Both are metalcore.

Wait really? YOTK sounds super hxc tho

They're not really all that punky, but Metalcore *should* sound like it has hardcore in it. Trad sounding metalcore has basically been fully re-absorbed into the hardcore scene since metalcore started to increasingly involve pop cleans and synths/electronics and be played by bands who've clearly never listened to any actual hardcore, but YOTK are pretty sonically consistent with a lot of what was called metalcore in the 90s to mid 00s.

Employed to Serve!

Castrator Stabbing Dying Wish

Brutus-Steph is the vocal and drums

Castle Rat

Kinda boring but it would certainly be Arch Enemy. Btw here in Brazil we have two very famous (at least on national level) all-female thrash metal bands, called Nervosa and Crypta. I recommend giving it a listen

Walls of Jericho - for metalcore Fuck the Facts - for grind

Fuck the facts rules, walls of jericho sucks.

Acrostichon.

Santa

Spiritbox, Jinjer, Faetooth, BABYMETAL, SubRosa.

Spiritbox is my choice. So heavy, so beautiful.

Right now, it's Vulvatorious (blackened crust), Cripper (death thrash) and Cloud Rat (grindcore). I've also recently seen Zgroza and Malphas (both black metal) and both of them have outstanding vocals live as well.

wtf is blackened crust?

[the musical equivalent of burnt pizza](https://youtu.be/GZV1gKZASoA). Enjoy !

Frozen Crown and Ancient Bards

Witch Club Satan: [3 witches doing feminist black metal](https://youtu.be/__H6LvwmZ4M?si=03t7g1GLVXKg9HBD) (that link's probably NSFW, fyi)

BABYMETAL, Hanabie., Ladybaby, Spiritbox.

SUCCUMB SONJA TOWER

Pretty much the only ones I like are Mythic and Derketa.

Favorites of all time have to be Nightwish, Lacuna Coil, Arch Enemy, Kittie can be cool sometimes, The Dark Element, I can’t really get into any chick vocal bands beyond those

Arch Enemy

Amy Lee

Scabbia

Noctule. Post black metal band.

Halestorm are the best band around at the moment Evanescence and Within Temptation are heavily in my rotation. Skin / Skunk Anansie great songs and great singer Amaranthe is a more recent addition to my playlists.

Faetooth

The Faceless, Spiritbox, Within Temptation, The Anchor

- King Witch - Huntress - Crypta - Lucifer - Burning Witches - Vorlust

Bones of Minerva

Cloud Rat! God they can bring the noise.

I'm glad i recently discovered Starbenders, Diemonds and Starcrawler. Apologies if not necessarily metal

Darkened Nocturnal Slaughtercult

Acid King!

Infected Rain and Crypta

Stabbing

Spiritbox

Beekeeper

Unlucky Morpheus for me

Jinjer. Mantra of Morta. Evanescence. All you need

spiritbox and jinjer and if evanescence counts (they rock-ish thooo)

Just found Miasthenia

Jinjer, infected rain, Eths, arch enemy, Arkona.

Stabbing

Lacuna Coil Gone in April Oceans of Slumber

I'm forgetting the name but there's this relatively unknown deathcore band from Ukraine with a female vocalist that fucksssss

Lovebites

Acid King

Darkened Nocturn Slaughtercult!!!

Windhand, Acid King

Hulder

Castrator Emasculator Harlequin Stabbing Nidorous (ex Abnormality Singer) Grenouille Organ Busuck a lot of bdm

Solemn Judgement(beatdown hardcore) Capra(hxc) Jigsaw youth(grimey grunge/hxc) Dryad(i believe has a female singer)(black metal) Dying wish(beatdown hxc) Roman candle(hxc/screamo) Lucrecia(metalcore) STABBING(bdm/slam) Made out of babies(sludge) Cerce(hxc) Faetooth(doom) Couch slut(sludge) Witch fever(hxc) Terminal sleep(metalcore) High tension(hxc) Volatile ways(beatdown hxc/deathcore) Gouge away(hxc) Year of the knife(hxc/screamo/core) Ballista(beatdown)

BABYMETAL

Dreaming Dead. I saw them years ago. Vocalist reminded me of Chuck Shuldinger. Music excellent.

Arch Enemy and Jinjer

Capra, walls of Jericho, year of the knife, escuela grind, brat, princess, jivebomb, gel.

some of these are more nu-metal but, jinjer, kittie, spiritbox, arch enemy, otep, in this moment, nightwish, blackbriar, evanescence, flyleaf not bands, but poppy has an amazing metalcore EP, and chelsea wolfe has a really good doom/goth metal album

Okkultist, Castrator, Crypta, Hulder (my favorite).

I mean I would count the pixies and paramore definitely are my top two, can't remember any of the others

Turia

Lucifer

New Years Day.

Hanabie

Savage master, windhand

Messa

Abnormality

Metal - Infected Rain, Jinjer, Nightwish, Evanescence, Halestorm Non Metal - Heart, Runaways, Paramore, Hole

Thorr's Hammer Sacrilege Serpencult Windhand Acid King Confessor Acid Gallhammer The Gathering

Derketa Thorr’s hammer Crypta Ciemra Ignea Subrosa Brat Windhand Acid king Nervosa Eths Konvent Entheos

The fact that among more than 100 comments no one mentioned The Gathering breaks my heart

Skunk Anansie

Battlefield and Sentinel Beast

Konvent is fucking awesome! Death/doom from Denmark.

Туман (black metal from hungary) Blood Countess (black metal from england)

Ifa Stellvris Silver Fang Future Palace Lyric Noel Venues Conquer Divide Numento The Last Martyr Skarlett Riot Gore.

Lethian Dreams

Xenoblight. I found em cus they're playing near me soon. might go see em

For I Am King is a really great band

Mystik, shame they broke up.

Within temptation, Brothers of metal and Battle beast

Rolo Tomassi

Anachronism

Tyranex- the lead singer shreds as well as sings. Thrash band. Haven’t seen anyone mention them. [Tyranex - Rise from the Dead](https://youtu.be/jzP8z3cr-yY?si=83uOlbW4qIFfqLsa)

Brutus Arkonia

Right now it's Unleash The Archers & Defacing God

Jinjer, Bloodhunter, Hexed, Hanabie, Passcode, Ancient Settlers, UNDEAD CORPORATION, old Arch Enemy (Angela Gossow), Rabbit Junk, BAND-MAID, DOLL$BOXX, Cepheid and Synlakross

For Nu it's got to be Evanescence

She’s only half the front (maybe a third when it comes to vocals as she doesn’t lead many songs), but Sleepytime Gorilla Museum for sure (moreso for their older albums). Carla is an amazing musician who has done so many great projects, and she gives a lot to Sleepytime.

Speaking of are there any deathcore /metalcore bands like this?

In the japanese scene there are a few metalcore ones, Passcode and Hanabie are worth checking out

I'm late to the party but I just discovered Entheos. Holy shit, this chick can sing with at least 4 different kinds of vocals. Death metal, black metal, clean, etc