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Female Cover Bands taking over!

By Lucifera Endemoniada (1/4/08)

There's a growing popularity of female rock and metal bands and among this uprising of female musicians we also find a group of gals who wanted to pay tribute to their those musicians they see as their heroes.

The best known of these bands: The Iron Maidens, they sound great, they look great…and yes…are they amazing…you bet!

I thought I'd drop you a list of some of these female cover bands by giving you a small list of some of the ones I've come across:

Enjoy and catch them live for a fun experience.

The Iron Maidens- from California (USA) world's only all-female Iron Maiden cover band

http://www.theironmaidens.com

http://www.myspace.com/theironmaidens  

AC/DSHE—Female Fronted AC/DC cover band from ..:NAMESPACE PREFIX = ST1 />Melbourne, Australia. Their frontwoman calls herself Bonnie Scott.

http://www.acdshe.com.au

http://www.myspace.com/acdsheaustralia

AC/She—all-female tribute band from California (USA) yes, there are two.

http://www.acdshe.com

http://www.myspace.com/acdshe

Black Diamond—all-female Kiss tribute band from Ohio (USA). Of course, Kiss is probably the most fun old school band to cover;)

http://www.myspace.com/blackdiamondgirlsrock

Bathorlord—female-fronted tribute to BATHORY from Germany. Ms. Dark Desires, Jeanette has decided to pay tribute to a legend of the darker side of the metal scene.

http://www.myspace.com/bathorlord

Bitchfits—all-female Misfits tribute band from California (USA).

They've got the looks and they make the Misfits sound so sensually sexy haha.

http://www.myspace.com/thebitchfits

Cheap Chicks—from California (USA) the world's only all-female tribute to Cheap Tricks

http://www.cheapchick.com

http://www.myspace.com/cheapchick

Girls, Girls, Girls—from New York (USA) all female Motley Crue cover band. How can I possibly not add this;) Motley Crue being an old favorite, I was surprised and happy to see some girls paying tribute to the Crue and keeping the sleaziness in their style.

http://www.myspace.com/girlsgirlsgirlsnyc

Harptallica—from Louisiana (USA) two female harpists showing their own unique tribute to Metallica

http://www.harptallica.com

http://www.myspace.com/harptallica

Heartbreaker—Tribute to Pat Benatar from California (USA)

http://www.myspace.com/benatartributeband

Holy Divah!—female-fronted tribute from California (USA) to Ronnie James Dio.

http://www.holydivarocks.com

http://www.myspace.com/holydivarocks

Judith Priest—female-fronted tribute to Judas Priest from Texas (USA)

http://www.judithpriesttribute.com

http://www.myspace.com/judithpriestnurface

Kisses—all female Kiss tribute band from California (USA)

http://www.myspace.com/femalekisstribute

Ladysmith—from California (USA) all girl tribute to Aerosmith

http://www.ladysmithrocks.com

http://www.myspace.com/ladysmithrocks

Lez Zeppelin—"all girls, all zeppelin", that's their headline this all-female Led Zeppelin cover band is from New York (USA).

http://www.myspace.com/lezzepplin

The Little Dolls— from California (USA) All female Ozzy Osbourne cover band. This band Features members of Phantom Blue and the Iron Maidens.

http://www.thelittledolls.com

http://www.myspace.com/thelittledolls

Malice Cooper—female fronted tribute from Canada to Alice Cooper.

http://www.myspace.com/malicecooper

Mistress of Reality—from California (USA) world's only all-female tribute to Black Sabbath.

http://www.mistressofreality.org

http://www.myspace.com/mistressofreality

 http://www.myspace.com/queendiamondband 

The Ramonas—from California (USA) four gals playing tribute to the Ramones.

http://www.theramonas.com

http://www.myspace.com/thehotramonas

SheRuption- from Georgia (USA) all-female tribute band to Van Halen

Thundherstruck—from California where else (USA) all-girl tribute to AC/DC.

http://www.thundherstruck.com

http://www.myspace.com/thundherstruckrocks

Slaywhore—from New York (USA) an all-female Slayer tribute band. It's only natural that we get ladies covering heavier bands as time goes on.

http://www.myspace.com/slaywhore

Whole Lotta Rosies—from California (USA) all female AC/DC tribute band (yes, AC/DC has it good)

http://www.therosiesrock.com

http://www.myspace.com/wholelottarosiesband

Zepparella—from California (USA) all-female Led Zepplin cover band. They don't try to dress like the band, they simply perform to their hearts content.

http://www.zepparella.com

http://www.myspace.com/zepparella

Note: You can find old interview of these bands and more at Metal Maidens website,

Endemoniada Website and Girl Rock Magazine.

My top 12 are actually main and beloved interests.

But my top 40....now that's what I call BRUTAL women in metal, rock and underground music!!!

My top 40 is just the tip of the iceberg of female talent and women that I consider are trully what some of you call the queens of metal, brutal women in metal or goddesses of metal..

But although I'm all for eye candy (meaning I don't care if a woman naked throws blood on herself and posses for a myspace picture and calls it brutal), women in our scene should be allowed to express themselves as they so desire but make sure you actually listen to the music! Then you have the other extreme of brutal gals that wear your usual jeans and t-shirts...don't care about fashions etc... I think we all enjoy our own variety and show our appreciation for the music differently.

But when someone tells me check out these brutal women in metal, I already know what I'm looking for...what comes to mind are gals such as Karyn Crisis, Alicia when she was in 13, Lori Bravo of Nuclear Death...the list goes on...

As well as women who show strong support for the scene by writing about what they love and doing things such as interviews on video, djing and even just fucken going to a show because they love the music!

That is what I'm talking about!


My top 40 is only a few of the women of the underground scene I could find and add and not spend all fucken day on here because the day is great outside.

But there are many women with different forms of expressions especially in our music scene that are worthy of all our attention.

So drop my profile, check out their pages and I even attemped to add more pictures....

infernally,
Lucifera Elena
Endemoniada/ NYDM Hellraiser

(originally posted on myspace)