In recent years female artists have massivey invested the Doom underworld. When they handle the guitar, the drums or the bass, they live up to all expectations and their dedication can’t be questioned. More decisively, they also took over the last bastion of men : the microphone. And there lies the difference.

The meeting of Doom rhythms and a female voice (which does not hide under grunts - these being after all nothing but a convenient disguise that masks the personality of a voice ( and its flaws ) - but still, there are grunters in this list) - releases odd and, let's say it, almost erotic vibes; it’s Eve cast away from Paradise and roaming in a barbaric world. Or Lilith enjoying chaos.

At his best, a female voice conveys rich meaningful expressions – the range is fragile, high-pitched, languid, depressed; the most talented among them give the impression to strip bare , to engage in a greater commitment and with less modesty that men, spitting their guts, to tell who they are with an utmost sincerity. When they sing, it makes their physical presence more tangible, they seem to bring the music to a more concrete world and yet – often- more poetic. Most often they also write the lyrics they sing; if it is sometimes a mish-mash of corny folklore about witches, coven and other magic spells, they also remind us that they live in the same world than we are and it inspires them the same wonder, excitement and disgust .

We wanted to compile this list in tribute to female-fronted Doom. There’s one single criterion: a woman should be the lead singer; if a man sings too, his part should be secondary. All of the following groups are classified by genre.

Feel free to contribute.


Trad-Retro Doom


Rituals of the Oak
http://ritualsoftheoak.blogspot.be/


Mourn
https://myspace.com/mourndoom


Shelder
http://vibrationsofdoom.com/test/test2/Shelder.html


Crone
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Jex Thoth
http://www.jexthoth.net/


Deadmask
http://deadmask.bandcamp.com/


Demon Lung


Ex People


Serpentcult (first album)
http://www.myspace.com/serpentcult


Misty Grey
http://mistygreydoom.bandcamp.com/


Hands of Orlac
http://www.myspace.com/orlachands


Blood Ceremony
http://www.myspace.com/bloodceremony


Cauchemar
https://myspace.com/cauchemarmetal


Second Grave
http://secondgrave.bandcamp.com/


Sidhe
http://sidheband.bandcamp.com/


Avatarium
http://avatariumofficial.se/


The River
http://theriverband.bandcamp.com/


Left Hand Solution
http://www.myspace.com/lefthandsolution


Sacrilege (UK- started as a Punk band ended as a Doom one)


Sacrilege (Italy)




Stoner Doom


Clorange
http://clorange.bandcamp.com/album/instinct


Alunah
http://alunah.bandcamp.com/


Acid King
http://www.acidking.com/


Occultation
http://myspace.com/dancingshadowsinthedark


Hela
http://hela.bandcamp.com/


Shinin' Shade
https://en-gb.facebook.com/pages/SHININ-SHADE/169113931530


Windhand
http://windhandva.bandcamp.com/


Reino Ermitano
http://www.myspace.com/reinoermitano


Witchburn
http://www.myspace.com/witchburn


Holy Grove
http://www.facebook.com/holygroveband


Uzala
http://uzala.bandcamp.com/


Solar Halos
http://solarhalos.bandcamp.com/


Warhorse (early)


Black Moth
http://www.themothpit.co.uk/


Slug Lord
http://sluglord.bandcamp.com/


The Wounded Kings (new)
http://www.reverbnation.com/thewoundedkings


High Priest of Saturn
http://highpriestofsaturn.bandcamp.com/


Stake-Off The Witch
http://www.myspace.com/stakeoffthewitch


Bezoar
http://vitaminbezoar.blogspot.com/


Witch Mountain
http://witchmountain.bandcamp.com/


SubRosa
http://subrosausa.bandcamp.com/


Mist
http://mistdoom.bandcamp.com/


Astral Cult




Atmospheric Doom


Skumring
http://www.reverbnation.com/skumring


Mourning Sun



Avrigus
http://www.myspace.com/avrigus


The 3rd and the Mortal
http://mortal.info/


Raving Season
http://www.reverbnation.com/ravingseason


It Will Come
http://www.myspace.com/deeperintonothing


Omit
http://www.omitmusic.com/


Ava Inferi
http://avainferiofficial.bandcamp.com/
Ava Inferi

Lethian Dreams
http://www.lethiandreams.com/


To Cast a Shadow
http://www.tocastashadow.com/


Nightsky Bequest
http://www.myspace.com/nbequest



Gothic Doom


Elbereth


Mortalium
http://mortaliumband.net/


Evictus
https://soundcloud.com/evictus

Chalice
https://myspace.com/chalicedotmu




Death Doom


Derketa
http://www.derketa.com/


Endlesshade


Ischemic


Thorr's Hammer


Mythic
http://www.myspace.com/mythicdeathmetal


Broken Anatomy
http://www.reverbnation.com/brokenanatomy

Mystic Charm
http://www.mysticcharm.nl/


Skeletal Spectre
http://www.myspace.com/skeletalspectre


Feretro
http://www.myspace.com/feretrodoommetal


Grey
http://www.myspace.com/greydoom


Wooden Stake
http://www.reverbnation.com/#!/woodenstake


Forty Days Longing





Sludge – Drone Doom


Show of Bedlam


Crowskin
https://crowskin.bandcamp.com/


Dark Castle
http://darkcastlemetal.bandcamp.com/


Herem
http://herem.bandcamp.com/


Church


Like Flies On Flesh
http://www.myspace.com/likefliesonflesh


Bismuth
http://bismuthslow.bandcamp.com/


Monarch!
http://www.myspace.com/monarchuberalles


Blood Ov
https://myspace.com/bloodov

Ennoea
http://ennoeadoom.bandcamp.com

Bloody Panda
http://www.myspace.com/bpanda


13
https://myspace.com/13doom


Ishmael
http://ishmaeldoom.bandcamp.com/


Bottom
http://bottomrocks.bandcamp.com/


shEver
http://shever.bandcamp.com/


Insuiciety


Undersmile
http://undersmile.bandcamp.com/


SaturninE
http://saturninewitches.bandcamp.com


Salome
http://www.myspace.com/salomedoom


Dark Tharr




Black Doom


Tunes of Despair
http://www.myspace.com/tunesofdespair


Thaclthi
http://thaclthi.bandcamp.com/


Vae Solis


Riti Occulti
http://ritiocculti.altervista.org/




Funeral Doom


Herodias
http://herodias.bandcamp.com/


Murkrat (not quite Funeral, but there're elements of it)
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Murkrat/102719276480101


Begräbnis


Believe in Nothing
http://www.myspace.com/ssengnihton


Funeral (old)
http://www.myspace.com/doomfuneral



Other


Crone (epic doom metal)


early-In Loving Memory (melodic doom metal)

It Will Come are among my favourite female fronted doom bands out there. Great stuff, but unfortunately too short lived and too few doom aficionados know about this great band...

you forgot about old Atrox, having a GREAT female vocalist and some doom oriented fucked up metal in general.

nice thread!

The only real doom album they made was Mesmerized, which also had some pretty bad male vocals.

Lethian Dreams for Atmospheric Doom



Evictus for Gothic/Doom

https://soundcloud.com/evictus

Raving Season for Gothic/Doom (both clean and harsh female vocalists)



Salome for Sludge/Doom




I'll surely be back later when I remember others.

Cheers!

Yes, Atrox is only death doom on their first, and the male voice is predominant on that one. That's an album I like though...

What would be the album to buy from Left Hand Solution? Fevered or Light Shines Black?

I also need to get hold of that Evictus album...

Nice... atmospheric with some death/doom thrown in... the two female singers are actually pretty good...

"Fevered" definitely. "Light Shines Black" is more of a Rock album. "Shadowdance" seems to be quite good, too, but it's hard to find.

Kudos for compiling it all so neatly. I still disagree with some of your categorisations, but everyone is entitled to their own opinion, of course. I still think Grey November should be included even though there's no YouTube link to be found... Few people know about this band, which should change.

there's also that band, Blood Ov, But I can't find any worthwhile links.
http://www.lastfm.fr/music/Blood+Ov

I forgot about Grey November; I'll try and find something. Cheers, I'll by Fevered then.

edit: oh, my bad! I remember Grey November, I have the double album! yes it's very "literary", with many spoken-passages. I mostly remember a male voice though...

as you know, I have a hard time with the "gothic doom" label; to me, pretty much everything that usually gets this tag is atmo doom.... ;)

I'm with Merch about Raving Season being atmo doom here...

I know of no double album by Grey November. The only one I know is "The Fall of the House of Usher" which has melodic female vocals throughout long sections, but also male spoken passages in other tracks. In fact, the album shows a relatively clear division into two distinct halves. The first two songs off that album (if I recall correctly) would be of particular interest here.

There's a difference between Gothic Doom and Atmospheric Doom even though there are indeed many borderline cases. Omit would be such a borderline case, for instance. To at least try a vague (and perhaps subjective) distinction, Gothic Doom tends to be opulent, romantic, but hardly experimental whereas Atmosperic Doom combines melodic Doom (often with a Death Doom basis) with atmospheric outside elements, preferrably acoustic passages or other kinds of calm interludes, sometimes also lots of keyboards/orchestral arrangements (as in the case of Avrigus or Omit) which don't serve as mere background textures as in Gothic Doom, but constitute an atmosphere of their own. This makes Atmospheric Doom more experimental in a sense; it transcends the boundaries of Doom and also those of Metal in general. Some of it has little to do with Metal at all throughout long sections (cf. Amaranth, Avrigus, The 3rd and the Mortal). This is not the case with Gothic Doom, which may have a few calmer interludes, but generally remains quite strictly within the confines of the genre. Its atmosphere, albeit a central driving force behind the music, is rather stereotypical (without using this as a negative criterion!) in that it shows little individuality, instead aiming to achieve a very specific emotional effect which constitutes much of the subgenre's identity. Atmospheric Doom is more of an umbrella term for something that is actually quite heterogeneous. There's not the typical Atmospheric Doom sound, whereas there surely is such a thing for Gothic Doom. As in every genre, bands may show different degrees of individuality, and Ava Inferi is indeed a fairly individual band which adds some experimentation, especially due to the Fado influences on the third album or the long calm sections on the debut. But for the most part, their music remains clearly categorisable.

Raving Season is Gothic Doom, but it has some orchestral elements to it too... it's atmospheric, so I would call it atmospheric gothic death/doom...

How Like A Winter is a pretty solid example of gothic doom, Raving Season seems to fall under the atmospheric umbrella based on that song, rather enjoyable too. I'm going to have to go through this thread when I have time.

Also, it would be cool if the op post could be hidden in a few different spoiler tags (Which don't seem to be enabled yet?), opening and replying to this thread takes forever...

upgrade your internet connection!

nah, a second page will solve the problem.

like now!

now.

edit: oh fuck!

maybe now?

nope... surely now?

I've added Blood Ov (sludge) and Mist (stoner doom)

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