In metal, a genre teeming with testosterone and addled by adrenaline, women have made leaps and bounds over the years. Defying dainty stereotypes, these beauties have butted heads with the best of ...

Metal is no longer a man’s world. All across the genre’s many subcategories, from folk to black metal, powerful female figures are putting their stamp on a genre that’s finally coming to terms with ...

Beethoven once said music can change the world. Well, a trio of girls from Indonesia are proving that's true. Firda Marsya Kurnia, Widi Rahmawati, and Euis Siti Aisyah were just three teenagers from a ...

Emmy Mack says she has spent her entire career being told that she will never make it as a heavy metal singer. Heavy metal singer Emmy Mack is a speaker at the Australian Women in Music Awards The ...

Revolver magazine's annual "hottest chicks" issue shows that females are seen as a novelty in heavy music. That's a problem. Heavy metal has been a boys' club since before Tony Iommi famously severed ...

Note: NPR's First Listen audio comes down after the album is released. However, you can still listen with the Spotify and Apple playlists at the bottom of the page. In metal, lineage can be everything ...