So SpectreNectar made a blog about some Canadian (if that stupid word filter is still on, then eskimo = "cana dian" and "that cold place" = "cana da") bands, and I'm now inspired to write a blog about music. Specifically, metal bands with female vocalists, who scream. I absolutely love it, and I thought I'd share a list.

This is far from a "complete" list, but these are some good ones that I happen to have. I'm not a huge fan of girls just singing (or any metal with clean vocals, really), so it's a pretty small list. I'll list them first, and then give a sample of one of their songs. I won't really go into the history of the band or anything though. Lastly, I should clarify that half of these aren't really all that metal, but c'mon…It's a girl screaming…That makes up for the way the music is played.

(Band - Singer)

Arch Enemy - Angela Gossow

Iwrestledabearonce - Krysta Cameron

Otep - Otep Shamaya

Cerebral Bore - Simone "Som" Plujimers

Circle the Sky - Ash

Kittie - Morgan Lander

Straight Line Stitch - Alexis Brown

The Agonist - Alissa White-Gluz

Walls of Jericho - Candace Kucsulain

Orphan Hate - Sina Niklas

Holy Moses - Sabina Classen

Picture me Broken - Layla Brooklyn Alman

Eths - Candice Clot

Astarte - Maria "Tristessa" Kolokouri

Light This City - Laura Nichol

Cadaveria - Cadaveria (that's the name she goes by)

cmkin29 - Kin Lin

Arch Enemy

When you think "female screaming", this is probably the first band you would think of. Definately the most commonly cited band for this sort of thing.

Nemesis:

Iwrestledabearonce

The band has a sense of humour, but it's got a lot of clean vocals, and electronic stuff, which I'm not too fond of. It's definately one of those "not quite metal" bands, but it's still pretty good.

You know that ain't them dogs' real voices:

Otep

Otep is one of the few nu metal bands that I really like (death to most nu metal! *shakes fist*). Her albums feature really heavy songs, some softer songs, and even some spoken word "poetry" (stories about murder and brutality, basically). About a third of her lyrics are really good too, talking about abuse and stuff. She has a really good vocal range to top it all off - throaty raspy screams, shrieks, growls, whispers, clean vocals…

Fists Fall:

Cerebral Bore

This is a pretty new band (well, they're actually almost 7 years old, but they only got the vocalist, and released their debute album, in 2011), featuring "Som" on vocals. She was around on youtube (her channel. You'll have to go back maybe 20 videos to get to her older stuff) doing awesome vocal covers of Dying Fetus and stuff before she joined the band.

Most of the other bands I mentioned are on the cleaner side of metal, but Som is much more on the grind/death side of metal, with really deep and throaty (exhale?) screams, and even does pig squeals. And on top of it all, she was only 19 when she did the album (and was doing the youtube stuff before that). Speaking of youtube, there's another awesome youtube channel singer down below.

The Bald Cadaver (she does some pig squeals from 1:23 and 1:29):

Circle the Sky

Speaking of young, Circle the Sky is an Australian band (a lot of good metalcore stuff comes from Australia too. Spectre was on a Canadian kick, or something…He should look at Australia next), with a 16 year old singer. "The band emerged in 2006, shocking crowds by the petite young lady producing brutal vocals". And they are pretty brutal.

Shark Etiquette:

Kittie

This (all girl) Canadian band was probably the first band with a female screamer that I had ever heard. She's got a good scream (raspy), but sadly she does a lot of clean vocals, so I don't listen to them too much.

Cut Throat:

Straight Line Stitch

A female screamer is pretty rare, and a black one is even rarer! A little Asian girl is probably the rarest (further down)

Black Veil:

The Agonist

Another Canadian band

Thank You Pain:

Walls of Jericho

A Trigger Full of Promises:

Orphan Hate

When she's not doing her clean vocals, she has a really good, deep, growls.

This Child (skip to 0:43 to start the screaming)

Holy Moses

Alright, so I've only been alive for about 2/3s or how long this band has been alive. It was one of the first German thrash metal bands, and definately one of the first female fronted metal bands.

World Chaos (live):

Picture me Broken

I found out today that one of their songs is on Rock Band (DLC). My RB drum set is destroyed, so when I either get my Rold drum kit setup to play Rockband, or I buy a new kit, I definately have to buy it. I'm going to put that video on here to remind myself to buy it. It doesn't really showcase her screams until after the break down (you can skip to 2:30, then she goes between clean vocals, and screams)

Dearest (I'm So Sorry):

Eths

A French metal band. The Agonist is from Montreal (in the Canadian province of Quebec, which is French), but Eths is French vocals, from France, and it is absolutely awesome.

Crucif´re

Astarte

An all female black metal band. Pretty awesome, eh SpectreNectar?

Black Mighty Gods

Light This City

I only recently found this band, so I haven't had much time to listen to them, but I love them so far.

The Unwelcome Savior

Cadaveria

This is actually a pretty weak band to end on. Her "scream" is really more of a yell for the most part. This is also a band I just started listening to, and I haven't really found any songs that stand out yet in my casual listening to them. I'm not really a fan of Symphonic metal (there's never enough power and speed coming from the drums. T_T), and this band is just on the verge of being too symphonic for me.

The Dream (skip to 2:15 for her "yelling")

cmkin29

Alright, this isn't a band, but if you head over to cmkin29's youtube channel, you can see this little Korean girl (I'm sure there's tons of Japanese girls who can do this too…'Cause Japan's weird like that) belting out covers from absolutely amazing singers/bands. From Lamb of God and Arch Enemy, to The Black Dahlia Murder and Job for a Cowboy.

There's quite a few really good female vocalists on youtube, but I thought she was pretty cool.

Cover of "Entombment of a Machine" by "Job For a Cowboy"

And that's that. If there's other bands you know of, let me know, 'cause I love this. If you want more information, or other songs (or albums) to "get into" one of these bands, let me know.