Everyone knows of my love for The Gathering (Anneke Van Giersbergen is a Goddess!) but i've found that metal music with a female voice fronting the band is a perfect thing. That added touch of femininity to the masculinity of the music...
Perfect female fronted metal bands:

Lacuna Coil - Cristina Scabbia
Nightwish - Tarja Tarunen
Leaves' Eyes/Theatre of Tragedy - Liv Kristine
The Gathering - Anneke Van Giersbergen

anyone got any thoughts?

That's fucking cool, Anne van Giersbergen comes from a village in Holland. Yay, bless the Dutch!

Anyway, I can't think of anymore bands, sorry. Metal is not my thing.

I'm obsessed with The Gathering... she comes from Oss right? my family originates from near there!

My brother really likes Arch Enemy and I'm sure that they have a female lead singer.

Mhm, they do.

Angela Gossow.

I really like Flowing Tears.

The only metal band I like is My Ruin.

All those bands are metal in the same way that HIM is "metal." Theatre of Tragedy sounds cool though.

Too many of those dime-a-dozen gothy metal bands with female vocals have a guy singing too, who is INVARIABLY terrible. Christina Scabbia is hardly a fantastic singer, but she has the voice of a goddess compared to that utterly HORRIBLE guy singing in the band.

Arch Enemy is amazing. Angela Gossow is the real deal.

im biased towards The Gathering cos they r my favourite group of all time... 17 years together and the style of music has changed gradually over the period of time... starting from HARD gothic metal with just a male voice, to the HARD gothic metal with a male and female vocalist to the more meldodic ambient rock they've done with Anneke since Mandylion. Anneke is the real deal. I like Lacuna Coil... bar Andrea Ferro who is nauseating... Liv Kristine of Leaves Eyes' & Theatre of Tragedy is awesome too...

LOVE arch enemy....! saw them at download festival a month or so ago... AMAZING!

im still in love with within temptation - {sharon del adel} as well!!!!!

never liked that nightwish woman though.. such a diva

Here's a list of all the ones i can think of:

Orphanage
Within Temptation
Batalion D`Amour
Alas, Dreams of Sanity
Therion
The Sins of thy Beloved
Novembers Doom
Penance
Dance of Glas
Avrigus
Holy Moses
Immemorial
Ancient
Amaran
Rain Fell Within
God, On Thorns I Lay
On Thorns I Lay
Flowing Tears
The 3rd And the Mortal
Atrox
Tactile Gemma
Theatre of Tragedy
Leaves` Eyes
Diva Destruction
Genitorturers
The Gathering
Sacriversum
Crematory
Sinergy
Ancient
Arch Enemy
Hagalaz Runedance
Rain Fell Within
Autumntears
The Provenance
Sinister
Beseech
Siebenbürgen
Left Hand Solution
After Forever
Astarte
Madder Mortem
Moonlight
God`s Bow
Galadriel
Via Mistica
L`ame Immortelle
Mandragora Scream
Lullacry
Delight
Evanescence
Xandria
Lords Of the Stone
Nemesis
Delight
Enter Chaos
Kayzen
Trial Of Tears
Imperia
Stratovarius
The Gallery
Dismal Euphony
Persephone`s Dream
Lacrimosa
Closterkeller
Dismal Euphony
Naamah
Trail of Tears
Desdemona
Warlock
solowe dokonania
Fading Colours
Septic Flesh
Chaostar
Sear
Dominion
Antimatter
Inkubus Sukkubus- Candia is awesome!
The 3rd And the Mortal
Lacuna Coil
Dreams Of Sanity
Soulslide
Chalice
Sengir
Beholder
Epica
Lorien
WeltenBrand
Asgaard
The Sins Of Thy Beloved
Artrosis
Tristania
Dargaard
Dominion III
Astarte
Nightwish
Dismal Euphony
Peccatum
Star Of Ash
Sacriversum
Kayzen
Siebenbürgen
Bloodflowerz
Wishing Well

wicked wisdom are not metal, they just suck. evanescence isn't bad but not metal either. no one list kittie either.

i didn't think novembers doom and penance were female-fronted, i thought they just employed female vocals from time to time?

i'm not a big fan of the "gothic" beauty and the beast type of bands. i really don't care for them at all, actually. i went through a phase where i kinda liked lacuna coil and leaves' eyes, but now they just don't appeal to me as much anymore. i spent a long time trying to deny that i didn't like Nightwish, but their vocal lines and melodies are too catchy. ugh. i can't believe i just publically admitted that too.

3rd and the mortal wasn't bad with Kari on vocals. out of that list, i'm a big fan of Sinergy; Kim's vocals and Alexi and Roope's guitars are amazing. i have all their albums, including the ones with bonus tracks. they're kind of like Warlock but much better.

i saw arch enemy live too. they're very impressive, have nearly all their albums. i don't know why they dump all kinds of vocal effects on Angela's voice when she can perform just fine without them.

Left Hand Solution's really good, i'm trying to pick up one of their albums. Enter Chaos and Immemorial aren't too bad either. and Peccatum is good regardless of the genre, they create amazing music.

Fuckin Arch Enemy. You can't even tell it's a girl when you listen to them, and their so good live, her vocals are even better then on the CDs.

alectronancy,

Wha, wha, wha ... need a tissue?

Umm, I like Otep. Well that's all I really listened to before. After a while the yeliing gets annoying. But for the most part, I like Otep.

So do I, I have always been impressed by the singer performing 'Requiem'.

I loved the band Scratching Post. They were a metal pop band who were pretty hot in the Canadian indie scene in the late 90's. It's metal with hooks that get stuck in your head all day. This was my favourite song from their last cd for those of you who don't know them. They're now called MINX.
http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.ph...88DA521302DE68

i liked Kittie's first album, but their two more recent ones suck barring What I Always Wanted and In Winter. they've become just another numetal band.