M E T A L . M A I D E N S

	Ana Mladinovici sings in the Romanian metal band Magica. She joined Magica after guitarist Bat Costea started the band as a side project of their then-band Interitus Dei. After the release of their second album, Lightseeker, Ana has become a rising star in the female fronted Euro power metal scene.
	Anette started singing at the age of sixteen when she joined a band called Angelez. At the age of eighteen she joined Yankee Heaven where she met guitar player Mats Edstrom. Johansson and Edstrom created the duo Shiva, an amazing AOR-Hard Rock band and released two albums: “Shiva” in 2002 and “Desert Dreams” in 2004.
	Lead vocalist for the Swedish death metal band Arch Enemy since Autumn 2000. From 1991 to 1998 she was the vocalist for the extreme death metal band Asmodina, and in 1998 she founded Mistress, which she was with until 2001. Her death growl is killer.
	Former singer of Hellion, she spent years on the road playing Hammond organ and eventually formed Beowulf. After several male singers, Ann took over the vocals and changed the band's name to Hellion. Ann's music, both vocal and instrumental, have been included on numerous soundtracks and commercials.
	Starting as a death metal band, The Gathering eventually brought on Anneke for vocals and helped to start the melodic, female-fronted Gothic Metal scene with the release of their psuedo-metal album "Mandylion". The band has become one of Holland's biggest rock acts and has since changed directions away from a metal sound. Anneke has a strong, melodic voice with a wide vocal range which may be the most haunting of them all.
	Hailing from Argentina is another female who will leave you breathless from her skills on the electric guitar. Her third record, "Transmission", was recently recorded at Steve Vai's Mothership studio in Hollywood and if Steve is willing to produce your CD, then you have to be damn good.
	Christina Scabbia-She with the Sultry Eyes. Starting with the name "Ethereal" this Italian band sent out demos and was given a recording contract in 1996. They soon changed their name to "Lacuna Coil" which means "empty spiral". Christina has been compared to The Gathering's Anneke Van Giersbergen in style and sound.
	An early pioneer for death/black female vocals, rough-throated Dawn Crosby started out in the early 80s with the band Allies. In 1984, Crosby helped form the thrash band Detente. The band recorded 2 demos that gained the attention of labels and eventually changed its name to Fear Of God. On December 15, 1996, Dawn Crosby died of acute liver failure. She had been drinking heavily since 1992. The remaining musicians continued Fear Of God for a few more years before going seperate ways.
	Debbie Gunn was a mid-80s pioneer for female metal in Sentinel Beast a thrash band from Sacramento, CA who broke down a lot of barriers for females in the world of heavy metal. Debbie Gunn made quite an impact with Sentinel Beast before she left the band to join Iceage, a Swedish all female thrash band.
	DM is shocked and appalled that you're reading her bio, as she is not very interesting and never claimed to be. Most importantly, DM fronts a band that scares your mother. She rages against the machine daily, with matinee rages on Sundays and Wednesdays. Go to www.themissing.com to visit her band's website.
	Making her mark as the front woman for the influential, 80s, German power metal band Warlock, Doro continues to rock hard into the current scene as a solo artist. Doro is known for her raw metal vocals as opposed to a clean, feminine style.
	Hailing from Sweden, these four players of a fairly grunge style weren't clones of ABBA or Ace of Base. They are --Maria Sjöholm: vocals --Flavia Canel: guitar --Anna Kjellberg: bass, backing vocals --Martina Axén: drums
	Elisa initially made a name for herself in the Spanish metal band Dark Moor. Her powerful, emotional singing was a perfect compliment to the highly orchestrated power metal the band played. After some creative differences, she went on to the French metal band Fairyland and has since started the band Dreamaker.
	Swinnich uses her high octane power metal voice to fuel the fire that is US metal band Ignitor. The vocalist originally started her musical career in the gothic avant-garde band Autumn Tears, where she spent six years learning to sing opera style. She joined Ignitor and contributed to the group's soaring classic metal sounding "Take To The Sky" EP in 2004. In early 2007 the band released their first full length record, "Road Of Bones".
	Lead soprano vocalist of the Dutch band After Forever who first came upon the rock scene with their debut ‘Prison Of Desire’. The band has made a profound impression with their epic combination of metal with influences from classical music, gothic and prog rock.
	Katherine Thomas aka "High Priestess of Shred Guitar" and self-proclaimed guitar goddess. Kat began studying piano at the age of seven, and switched to the violin at nine. At 15, Kat was accepted to the Juilliard School of Music in New York City. Eventually, she discovered heavy metal and learned to play the guitar. Now you can expect lots of screaming, blood, BDSM, and speed metal versions of classical pieces, such as Vivaldi's Four Seasons and the William Tell Overture.
	Hanka joined Czech Doom/Ethno metal band Silent Stream of Godless Elegy in 2001. Her beautiful melodic voice contrasts the growls of fellow vocalist Michal Herak. With the release of Relic Dances, Hanka has established herself as probably the best female Czech metal vocalist.
	Heading up the female fronted atmospheric metal band Flowing Tears, Helen Vogt will pull you away from your daily cares with her smooth baritone voice. If a bittersweet dream had a voice, it would probably sound just like Helen.
	Quite possibly the world's only all-female Iron Maiden tribute band. The band uses similar stage gear and props and packs them in wherever they play with excellent musicianship, lively stage presence, and a show that is quite an entertainment treat.
	Vocalist for Amaran who plays melodic Swedish metal in the style of In Flames and Dark Tranquillity, but with clean female vocals. Johanna puts on a powerful performance, similar to Cristina Scabbia (Lacuna Coil). Her earlier work includes both blues and hiphop.
	Who could forget this metal maiden, with dreads, an artistic mind, and a furious face that simply screams extreme? This Chicago native is very creative and innovative, at one point performing as a painter, photographer, clothing designer, and performance artist. She helped form the band Crisis in 1993, showing off her death-like singing voice that mixes soulful singing, spoken parts, and growls in an experimental method of musical expression.
	Kate French stormed into the metal scene as the vocalist for Chastain filling the shoes of the vocal spot left vacant by another mighty metal maiden in Leather Leone. She is also in the band Vainglory with new guitar virtuoso Corbin King.
	Melodic instrumental shred guitar has a lot of heroes, but off the top of your head can you name very many females in the field? With influences ranging from Gary Moore, Yngwie Malmsteen, Ritchie Blackmore, Joe Satriani, Michael Angelo Batio and Jimi Hendrix; Katrina Johansson is one who will spin your head with her fretboard licks as quick as she'll snap your neck with her girl-next door looks.
	Katy Decker (vocals) and Kaitee Elliott (keyboards) comprise the female side of the extreme/hybrid metal group Royal Anguish. In 2003, Katy decided to unleash her operatic talents to the metal world. Kaitee Elliott lurks to the back of the stage, playing her keyboards under a mourners veil.
	After spending some time as a keyboardist and doing session work for different bands like Therion and Dimmu Borgir, Kimberly, along with Alexi Laiho from Children of Bodom started the power metal band Sinergy.
	After over a year of world-wide touring in support of their certified gold debut album "Spit", Kittie has changed some members around but they are continuing to release music. Morgan Lee Lander is lead vocals and guitars for the Nu-metal styled sound.
	Laura joined Tystnaden at the age of 19 as a back-up choir singer with no previous experience. However, the Italian Melodic Death band decided to add her as a full time member and now sport a dual vocal style. Tystnaden have a decent following in the Italian underground scene and Laura also has made guest appearances doing backing vocals on Elvenking albums.
	Leather Leone is a powerhouse vocalist conquering many of the same legions as Dickinson, Halford, and Tate. The biggest portion of her career was spent with David Chastain and his power metal offspring, Chastain. On her own she recorded "Shock Tactics" under the name of Leather, released originally in 1989. After her last record with Chastain, "For Those Who Dare" in 1990, Leather Leone disappeared from the scene.
	Attending her first concert (Black Sabbath) at the age of 13, Lita found her calling, saved her money and bought a guitar. After her early band The Runaways broke up, the blonde bombshell went on her own and became one of the most familiar female names in metal during the 80s. Lita has dated or married well-known rockers Nikki Sixx, Tonni Iommi, and Chris Holmes and Jim Gillette. Lita has been quiet since the 90s, but will always be known for her stellar guitar work and songs like "Kiss Me Deadly" and the Ozzy duet "Close My Eyes Forever".
	Theatre of Tragedy were one of the earliest bands to use an extreme contrast between the well known male 'death grunt'-type of vocals and so called 'clean' female, angel-like singing. With her vocals Liv has helped to propel the Gothic Metal/Rock band Theatre of Tragedy to the top of their genre.
	A newcomer to the metal scene, Maria fronts ITM with the fierce screams of any metalcore male and the soft singing of an angel. This gives her the potential to appeal to a wider range of metal fan.
	Artrosis, whose name is a symbolic blending of art and roses, have their own distinctive style of atmospheric Goth Metal, which is brought to perfection primarily by the charismatic voice of Medeah. She is know for occasionally singing some songs in her mother tongue--Polish.
	Named after the bratty young girl in the movie "Willie Wonka And The Chocolate Factory" (the 'bad egg' that goes down the garbage chute), vox/guitarist Louise and guitarist Nina Gordon play hard-edged, in your face rock. After the departure of Nina, Louise is currently the sole holder of the Veruca Salt name.
	Otep will whisper, sream, growl and use any vocal style she can within her music and highly confessional writing to get her point across. Otep was personally invited to play at Ozzfest in 2001. Otep is also an anagram for poet.
	New York's Twilight Odyssey are leading the charge for traditional American heavy metal. The band has released one album thus far and showed incredible talent and future potential. Amazing frontwoman P.J. Berlinghof is the leading force with her soothing and aggressive vocals just completely overwhelming at times, the perfect voice to this bold endeavor. Her voice can take on a more soothing tone as well, with her register almost as soft as Pat Benatar at times. Fans of classic metal voices like Dickinson, Tate, and Halford will be pleased with Berlinghof's range and powerful delivery.
	Holy Moses was founded by Sabina Classen and with her German thrash unit in place, they stormed the same shores as Kreator, Destruction, and Sodom. Today is no different, with Holy Moses unleashing new records with the same reckless approach as before.
	After helping to form the progressive metal band Edenbridge, gorgeous vocalist Sabine Edelsbacher has seen her popularity and critical acclaim grow with each of the bands releases. She's know for her clean, ethereal, dreamy vocals.
	After a demo landed in the hands of Cradle of Filth, they were so impressed that Sarah became their backing singer. She has also toured and record with bands such as Therion, Covenant, & Mortiis. Sarah does mainly operetic style vocals and has a range of four octaves!
	Sharon Den Adel is the singer for Dutch hard rock band Within Temptation. With her high-range, light vocals, Sharon has helped make the band one of the most popular of the female-fronted metal bands in Europe today especially with the international hit "Ice Queen".
	Starting out in music at a young age, Simone eventually found her calling in the metal world after seeing the band well-known gothic power metal band Nightwish. The young blue-eyed, redhead mezzo-soprano provides the haunting, high pitched, Arias for the Epic Goth metal band Epica.
	After losing their then-vocalist Tanya due to musical differences, Tanja Lainio stepped in to lead the highly infectious rock/goth-rock outfit Lullacry. Her sweet vocals are a perfect match for the hook-leaden rock melodies of this Finnish band.
	Tarja Turunen is one of the most well-known female singers in the metal scene and had brought critical and world-wide attention to the Finnish-based, progressive, symphonic metal band Nightwish. Her vocals can be full-on operatic and hard for some listeners to take, but for her fans, she is the greatest.
	San Diego band Benedictum is the conjuring of old school US heavy metal spirit. The group recalls the classic moments of Savatage and Dio while still retaining a good dose of European power metal glory. The highlight of the band is Veronica Freeman, a leading lady on the US metal scene and a vocalist that simply cannot be missed. Her thunderous voice is rather masculine sounding, giving the band's traditional metal sound plenty of authority and powerful persuasion.
	Vibeke is the soprano vocalist for Tristania, one of the leading atmospheric gothic metal bands playing today, taking the dual male/female vocal style pioneered Theatre Of Tragedy and combining them with lush, symphonic orchestration, while remaining a fully metallic band at its core.

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