What are notable female bands?

You have great taste in female-fronted hard rock & metal bands! Absolutely my favorite type of music. Some other bands that you might like are Delain, Stream of Passion, Halestorm, In This Moment, Krypteria, Hydria, A.D.D., AghonyA, La-Ventura, and Kittie.

If you don't mind listening to 30-second previews, I made a listmania on Amazon with my 40 favorite female-fronted releases from 2008 and 2009: http://www.amazon.com/favorite-female-fronted-albu...

There are two online sites that are awesome for discovering new music. Both are dedicated to female-fronted rock/metal, and review most of the new releases including EPs and promos by obscure bands:

- Femme Metal Records (http://www.femmemetal.net/reviews.htm)

- Ravenheart Music (http://www.ravenheartmusic.com/bio.html)

Happy listening!!! :)

BQ: Rush, natch.

Courtney Love - Hole

Gwen Stefani - No Doubt

Shirley Manson - Garbage

Louise Post & Nina Gordon - Veruca Salt

Dolores O'Riodan - The Cranberries

Heart

Joan Jett & The Blackhearts

7 Year *****

The Donnas

Bikini Kill

The Runaways

L7

Babes In Toyland

PJ Harvey

Pink Floyd.

Florence and the Machine

Portishead

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Bonus: Pink Floyd

Flyleaf is a good one. Also Nightwish and Lacuna Coil, they have a similar sound to Within Temptation. I'd recommend Paramore too, but they're more pop-punk/less metal.

BA: Rush.

All girl bands (of which there are not very many) include:

Vixen

Fanny

Lillix

Go-Go's

Bangles

Slits

Best girl fronted bands (of which there are a lot):

Heart (as above)

Joan Jett and the Blackhearts

Jefferson Airplane (Grace Slick)

Big Brother and the Holding Company (Janis Joplin)

Garbage (Shirley Manson)

Affinity (Linda Hoyle)

Pretenders (Chrissie Hinde)

Blondie (Debbie Harry)

Hole (Courtney Love)

Abba (You know them)

No Doubt (Gwen Stefani)

Yaz (Alison Moyet)

Plasmatics (Wendy O'Williams)

Martha and the Muffins (martha Johnson)

Katrina and the Waves (Kimberley Rew)

Romeo Void (Debra Lyall)

Savage Rose (Annisette and Ilse Marie Kopping)

Pussycat (Kowalczyk sisters)

Pussycat Dolls - not!

...and of course the Floyd rule out of those suggested

Lacuna Coil for sure!!

Evanescence (Amy's got the voice of an angel)

Joan Jett

The cranberries

Annie Lennox!

Bangles

Cindi Lauper

Heart, blondie, Pat Benatar, Evanescence has a girl singer so does Paramore and Lucuna Coil.

BQ: Rush

Omg, check out the *OLD* Kittie! Kittie is badass! Flyleaf is ok too. Kill Hannah isn't a girl fronted band, by the way. And Pink Floyd owns!

The Indigo Girls.

BQ: Floyd by a mile.

You need to hear

Nightwish

Renaissance

Tristania

Sirenia

Lacuna Coil

Leaves Eyes

Krypteria

Edenbridge

BA: I am impressed You know Captain Beyond..

Rush is My fave from that list