fuck yeah female fronted!

Girly 2000′s Bops

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I don’t have anything to do for a while so i’m just going to compile a list of female-fronted bands in various ~heavy~ genres (punk, grind, pv, fastcore.) Feel free to reblog and add your own.

Blaster Master - three piece fastcore/powerviolence from los angeles

Bleed the Pigs- black-power violence from tenessee 

Bloodraised- grindcore from italy, (sounds like 90′s american grind)

Catholic Spit- death rock//death punk from Ventura, CA

Circle takes the Square- experimental/screamo with dual male/female vocals from Brunswick, Georgia

Contravene- anarcho/peace punk with dual male/female vocals from phoenix, arizona

Despise You- west coast powerviolence from inglewood, dual vocal style

The Devotchkas- four piece all female street punk from long island, NY

Flagitious Idiosyncrasy in the Dilapidation- four piece all female japanese grindcore 

G.L.O.S.S.- transfemme hardcore punk from olympia

Generacion Suicida - raw latinx punk, from LA, dual vocals

Greedy Mouth- powerviolence from texas, self described as a band that “sounds like: Romantic Gorilla, Fuck On The Beach, Charles Bronson” and made for “Fools on a Quest for Weed, Booze, Vegan Food and Bad Movies

Happy Pill Trauma- 2 piece punky grindcore from los angeles, valerie is tough as shit and my favorite song “beheaded rapist” isn’t on their reverbnation anymore. luckily i have it on mp3 

Iskra- blackened crust from victoria, british columbia, lyrical content includes social issues like racism, sexism, homophobia, etc.

Kittie- all-girl four piece metal from canada

Melt-Banana- wild experimental japanese electronic grindcore… exactly

Mind of Asian- four piece fastcore thrashy powerviolence from japan

Mortuary Hacking Session- ALL FEMALE GOREGRIND!!!! so fucking brutal i rarely see women in goregrind let alone an all girl band

O’ God the White Whale- trans woman fronted screamo from north carolina

Pig DNA- brutal punk from Fresno

Purulent Jacuzzi- groovy death metal//gorgrind from Moscow

Rape Revenge- feminist powerviolence from Alberta

Sete Star Sept- two piece japanese noisey grindcore that will fucken tear u apart

Shit Brains- two piece grind/fastcore from los angeles, members of blaster master

Smelling Fetid Corpse (SxFxCx)- grindcore from south america, couldn’t find their exact location

Whorehouse of Representatives- feminist anarcho punk from seattle

Witch Hunt- 3 piece, (2 of which are women) punk from New Jersey//Philly. All three members do vocals. 

Radium Girls- pgh powerviolence/grindcore/hardcore/noise punx

Liebestod- pgh crust punx

so far the following is good

50s/60s/70s/80s russia

70s cambodia

20s japan

80s ethiopia