Bands with Female Lead Vocals

Block G Raptor

I've been a fan of Evanescence for a while and recently been introduced to nightwish. I want more just wondering if anyone can recommend some similar bands with female vocalists

punkindrublic

You might like Flyleaf

ride-the-spiral

Best bet would be Within Temptation and Epica.

cnocbui

Curve

What Evanesece and Garbage wanted to be, but never came close to.

RIP

Max Power1

ride-the-spiral wrote: »

Best bet would be Within Temptation and Epica.

Word for word what I was thinking when I say this thread. Other than that try Lacuna Coil (not their new album though), or Arch Enemy. Theres something very hot about angela gossow!

Dave H

Lacuna Coil springs to mind, and there's also that band with Will Smith's bird, Wicked something or another.
In This Moment could be another one ye might be into
Melissa Auf Der Maur is another class act, although a little lighter than the bands you mentioned,but I'd definitely recommend giving some of her songs a whirl (especially Followed the Waves, it's well cool hey).
And if you were looking to get into stuff that's a little bit *ahem* different, the Cranes are another great band, kind of like if you had Tania Donnelly from Belly singing with the Cure.

Dave H

Max Power1 wrote: »

Other than that try Lacuna Coil

Beat me to it!!!!;):D

fartmaster

Have to say ima fan of The Cranberries

Angron

Arch Enemy I say! Not similar vocals, but I love them nonetheless

Trogdor

Memoira - Female fronted prog metal from Finland
http://www.myspace.com/memoira

Distributor - Irish prog metal with twin vocals (male and female)
http://www.myspace.com/distributorband

greendom

Going back a bit but Heart and Jefferson Airplane had their moments

Malice

Block G Raptor wrote: »

I've been a fan of Evanescence for a while and recently been introduced to nightwish. I want more just wondering if anyone can recommend some similar bands with female vocalists

I suppose I could be pedantic and point out that Arch Enemy and Wicked Wisdom, while great bands in their own right, don't sound much like Evanescence or Nightwish so the OP mightn't like them. I'd still recommend checking them out.

Now, Nightwish are one my favourite bands so I spent a few minutes going through my music drive to find similar sounding bands (to my ears anyway) so here's a list:

Abonos from Serbia
Accid Reign from Germany
Adastreia from The UK
Addiction Crew - These guys are basically a clone of Lacuna Coil
Ador Dorath from Czech Republic
Aenima from Portugal
After Forever from Holland. Sadly broken up.
Agnlea from Brazil.
Akoma from Denmark.
Alhana from Hungary. Also sadly broken up.
All About Eve from The UK.
All Ends from Sweden.
Almora from Turkey
Ambeon from Holland.
Anachronia from France
Angel - This is a side-project of Imperia from Holland.
Angelzoom - From Germany. Not really metal but she has a fabulous voice.
Angtoria from The UK.
Auspex from France
Autumn from Holland
Avrigus from Australia

That should keep you going for while .
I'm off to concentrate on Man Utd v Bayern Munich.

GLaDOS

...Is it a coincidence all those bands begin with A?

Block G Raptor

thanks guy's plenty there to keep my broadband busy for a while (iTunes of course I swear:) )
I'll report back when i've had a listen to some of the above

Malice

ScienceNerd wrote: »

...Is it a coincidence all those bands begin with A?

Yeah, it turns out I've a lot more female-fronted music than I realised . I got halfway through A and realised that I'd be doing well just to finish that letter.

Coming soon - letter B starring Beyon-D-Lusion, Bitch Alert and many more

Nightwish

Akphaezya
Amberian Dawn
Delain
Diablo Swing Orchestra
Elis
The Gathering
Kingfisher Sky
Krypteria
Pin Up Went Down
Sirenia
Stream of Passion
Tarja Turunen
We Are the Fallen
Xandria

A small sample of the range of female fronted rock that's out there. They are from a different range of genre's. I am not sure if you like "beauty and the beast" vocals. If you do, older Sirenia, Tristania, The Sins of Thy Beloved and Trail of Tears might interest you also.

Block G Raptor

ride-the-spiral wrote: »

Best bet would be Within Temptation and Epica.

Have just finished listening to Within Temptation's An Acoustic night at the Theatre and am now officially their No1. Fan
excellent band just what I was looking for

Nightwish

Block G Raptor wrote: »

Have just finished listening to Within Temptation's An Acoustic night at the Theatre and am now officially their No1. Fan
excellent band just what I was looking for

I am :P I've seen them live 7 times, been in one of their music videos, been in one of their DVD's and met them three times.

Malice

Heh, I figured Nightwish would be staking her claim .

Out of curiousity Block G Raptor, what Nightwish albums have you listened to so far as the singer changed for the most recent album. Are you more into the operatic-style vocals of the older vocalist?

gingelion

Made Out Of Babies
Battle Of Mice

Same vocalist, her name is Julie Christmas. They're nothing like evanescence tho.

Malice

Links for the above two bands for anyone that's interested:

Made Out of Babies

Battle of Mice

I hadn't heard of them before now so I will definitely be giving them a listen.

gingelion

I love them. Battle Of Mice also has Josh Graham from Neurosis. Sweet.

mono_mac

dominican affair from monaghan

Rockettmeister

Battle of Mice are pretty awesome, the end of At the Base of the Giant's Throat is pretty terrifying.


Anyways, I recommend my band for this particular thread

http://www.myspace.com/distributorband

dantbyhid

www.myspace.com/neifenbach

gingelion

dantbyhid wrote: »

www.myspace.com/neifenbach

How could i have forgotten ye? Maybe cos i was so busy drinkin i forgot to watch ye the other night. Got the album though, its deadly.

And i haven't seen Kylesa mentioned yet.

scottie pippen

Unsun
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LapknbGS7Os