Flagitious Idiosyncrasy In The Dilapidation aka. (for obvious reasons..) F.I.D.
Japanese all-female metal (though Shadow kicks ass!):
I likey!!!
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It would appear that the possibility of a female-fronted/all-female metal band' existence corralates with the overall state secularity and social, political and religious equality between men and women in a particular country. Did some couple of hours of research on FF metal bands, resulting in the map below in which I've marked the bands I found (red=1 band, yellow= 2 or 3 bands, green= 4+ bands; NB! the number of bands is NOT the overall number of FF bands I found, just the ones I could hear a demo or a live show on their webpages or in YouTube).
And why is it that if a band's name ends -ia/-ea, it is likely it is a more or less gothic female-fronted metal band? Krypteria, Sirenia, Imperia, Nemesea, Exilia, Tristania, Xandria, Angteria, Adastreia. Or then a Greek-/Latin-like name: Elegeion, Ava Inferi, Gwyllion, Silentium, Tacere, Penumbra, Madder Mortem, Atrox, Coronatus, Catafalque, Ecthelion.
