Today is “International Women’s Day” and since I saw numerous posts focusing on some sensational female Metal and Rock singers I decided to do something similar here on the PiercingMetal website. Since our debut as an online magazine, I’ve witnessed some true powerhouses rule the stages of New York City and sometimes beyond. After digitally leafing through folder after folder I was able to fashion what I think is a great representation of some of Heavy Metal’s greatest ladies. The photos are filed alphabetically and no one pictured below should find you scratching your head. As time permits I’ll add in more text but for now please enjoy the photos. They were all taken by me from across a numerous span of years at a wide number of venues in our region. Enjoy.
PiercingMetal Thoughts: Assembling these images for this special photo feature certainly brought back some special memories of some truly kick-ass performances. Over the years I’ve photographed a lot more than the talented women that you see pictured up above but with hard drive and server crashes taking a number of them away from me over the years is the reason why you don’t see a wider group depicted. As this was a very deep dive into site photographic history, I doubt that I will do a followup post unless I work from this date onward for that one. Who knows, I will decide on such things when the time rolls around. For good measure I’ve cited all of the bands that are featured and strongly suggest that you look them up on Spotify, YouTube or Apple Music. However you search and enjoy new music. I’ve also included the video that I fashioned from many of these images and would appreciate you watching that as well since it helps the Official PiercingMetal YouTube grow and grow. Obviously there are far too many groups represented in this feature to find me linking to all of their Official Pages or Social Media accounts. You should be able to find most of them via the Wikipedia entry that I included down below. I hope that you enjoyed this feature. Happy International Women’s Day. Thank you for your hard work for my favorite genre.
From Top to Bottom: Ad Infinitum, Amaranthe, Arch Enemy, Anneke Van Giersbergen, Arkona, Babymetal, Band-Maid, Baroness, Battle Beast, Blackbriar, Blackmore’s Night, Butcher Babies, Charlotte Wessels, Cellar Darling, Cheri Currie, Chthonic, Cybertronic Spree, Delain, Doro Pesch, Edge Of Paradise, Eluveitie, Epica, Girlschool, Halestorm, Holy Wars, Infected Rain, In This Moment, Kaleido, Kittie, Lacuna Coil, Kobra and The Lotus, Leaves’ Eyes, Lita Ford, Liv Kristine, Madame Mayhem, Nightwish, Nita Strauss, One-Eyed Doll, Plush, Pretty Reckless, PassCode, Raven Black, Scandal, September Mourning, Seven Spires, Seven Kingdoms, Sister Sin, Sick Puppies, Spiritbox, Spider Accomplice, Stolen Babies, Stiched Up Heart, Sumo Cyco, Tarja, Twilight Force, Unleash The Archers, Thundermother, Visions of Atlantis, The Warning, Within Temptation and Xandria
List of Female Metal Singers on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_female_heavy_metal_singers