To many people, the mention of metal or heavy music brings to mind venues full of guys with beards, long hair, and patch-covered vests. While the metal world is indisputably male-dominated, many women ...

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 ...

Jinjer vocalist Tatiana Shmayluk has unloaded on the term “female-fronted band”, saying that she’s sick of being piled in with other women in the heavy metal scene, even if she sounds nothing like ...

Blood of Lilith doesn’t mess around. The three badass women behind the metal trio were already Denver scene veterans before coming together in 2020 and bringing a long-held vision to fruition. “We ...

Once the bassist for an all-female heavy metal band, Mikaela Mayer is now a unified boxing champion in two weight classes. Mikaela Mayer (L) with a left hook during the WBA, WBC and WBO ...

Middle school was an odd time for me. As I’m sure most angsty preteens do, I struggled to define the boundaries between who I was and who I was not. And most often, that struggle manifested in my ...

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The line for the show at Three Links in Deep Ellum on Dec. 6 was out the door and down the street. People bundled in black hoodies and shirts featuring the names of metal bands like Gojira, Sabaton ...