Tales From The Jugular - Pushing the Ladies</p>
<p>If you look over the stats for who's coming to Maximum Metal, you'll see over every
month a pretty consistent pattern in the Search Keyphrases that lead surfers to us. From
our current top 20 phrases, you'll see 11 are related to females in metal:<br>
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Christina Scabbia<br>
Sharon den Adel<br>
Angela Gossow<br>
Anneke van Giersbergen<br>
Vibeke Stene<br>
Katrina Johansson<br>
Kimberly Goss<br>
Simone Simons<br>
Sabine Edelsbacher<br>
metal babes<br>
Sabina Classen<br>
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Not doubt due to the new Lacuna Coil CD, &quot;Karmacode&quot;, Christina accounted for a
massive 10% (!) of the 2749 different keyphrases that have sent people to us. Our small
Metal Maidens (link) section for last month generated as many visits as our reviews did.
It could also be that metal women are highly searched all across the board, but I'm
inclined to say that maybe there is a real lack of focus on women in metal and since we
have the Metal Maidens section, it gets an fair amount of traffic from searches.<br>
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Putting &quot;Christina Scabbia&quot; into Google brought us up as the first entry, even
though we only have a few sentences, with her band's official Lacuna Coil website coming
in at #4. We're very high in the other names as well.<br>
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So, to toot our own horn and give a little more push to the ladies, here's a couple links
to check out if you're into female vocals. If any are outdated, please let us know. <br>
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Metal Maidens: <a href="http://www.maximummetal.com/maidens/">link</a> <br>
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Female Metal Vocalists - Clean, Power, and Growlers: <a
href="http://www.maximummetal.com/columns/tales/29.asp">link</a></br>