Femmes Fatales

The former vocalist, guitar player, main songwriter and text composer of TRISTANIA, Morten Veland, laid the foundation for a new contribution to the gothic/metal/rock scene a few years back. Still sworn to the darker and atmospheric genre, he now resurfaces with his new band SIRENIA with one goal in mind: to bring a fresh sound into the underground scene.

SIRENIA sounds like a mixtur...

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Well, what are yours? Suspect

Feel free to post pics as long as they're not any larger than 800 pixels in height and 600 pixels in length...

I'm going to be generic and give my top three spots to Cristina Scabbia, Francine Boucher and Maria Brink. Smile

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After Forever
Amaran
AnaDies
Arch Enemy
Artrosis
Autumn
Beseeach
Belladonna
Chtonic
DARZAMAT
Doro
Echoes of Eternity
Elis
Evanescence
Flowong Tears
The Gathering
Guano Apes
In This Moment
Lacuna Coil
Madder Mortem
Nemesea
Nightwish
Sirenia
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The beginning of Sweden’s DRACONIAN can be traced back to May 1994, when Johan Ericson (drums, vocals), Andy Hindenäs (guitars) and Jesper Stolpe (bass, vocals) joined forces as KERBEROS, a melodic heavy/death metal ensemble with black metal influences. Seven months later, lead vocalist and poet Anders Jacobsson joined the band, which then changed its name to what it is today.

Over t...

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What are your ten favorite femme metal songs?

Mine are...

1. This Moment - In This Moment
2. The Bottle of Lie - Akphaezya
3. Rise - Chaoswave
4. Balrog Boogie - Diablo Swing Orchestra
5. Show Me The Way - Elis
6. Rollercoaster - The Gathering
7. Surrender - In This Moment
8. Loveless - Kittie
9. Filistata - Stol...

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I'm putting this out there because I didn't see any thread for Delain yet, so if it does exist, please direct me to it and delete this one! As most of you know, Delain has Martijn Westerholt, who is Robert Westerholt's brother, on synths.

First, pics of the singer, Charlotte!

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In 1998
... Edenbridge was founded as a studio-project by guitarist / keyboarder Lanvall, bassist Kurt Bednarsky and vocalist Sabine Edelsbacher. By the entry of drummer Roland Navratil the line-up was completed for the production of their debutalbum Sunrise In Eden.

In 1999
... the recording of Sunrise In Eden took place in the Seagull Music Studio of sound magician Ganda...

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I'm curious they seemed to be almost hated by the general FM scene. My question is why. I like them quite a bit.