After I finally embraced the woman vocalist in metal, I discovered that women’s vocals can have just as much variety as males.
The song “Into the Ground” perfectly blends the heavy aspects of the music with a mellow touch of psychedelia, and if this catches your ear I highly recommend their entire catalog.
Acid King plays pretty minimalistic riffs, and it is the vocals that really tie them together to help the songs flow effortlessly. Lori’s vocals have gone from gruffer to a smoother, more hypnotic style that is accented by the perfect amount of reverb. All of their albums are spectacular, and it is III that see’s all of the elements blend in perfect cohesion to take you on trip through time. Her vocal style has improved consistently over each album, helping to create heavy music with a psychedelic atmosphere. Lori though is the focal point, the face and the voice of this band. The band has been filled out by numerous bassists and their other consistent member Joey, on drums. My hope is that males and females alike are not turned away by this grouping of bands, fortunately for a lot of us, there was Acid King…Īcid King is a band based out of San Francisco which features the talented Lori S. It makes me sad to see that Kittie, Evanescence, Lacuna Coil and Otep are the bands young females are being exposed to, and at least they are being represented and hopefully can dig a little bit deeper than just the crap that is being fed to them. Unfortunately most of what is commercialized as female metal is not very good. The symphonic and power metal scene in Europe has seen a massive increase of women involvement since Nightwish jumped onto the scene years back. These days it is a lot more common to see women taking part in metal. These groups along with other female underground groups, such as L7, Rude Girl, and Bikini Kill, helped to open up musical outlets for females in male-dominated genres. Following shortly after Mythic, Mystic Charm and 13 are two female fronted bands that came along to help pave the way. Mythic helped to open the door for women in an underground scene in an already non-traditional music genre. Many artists of today can claim Mythic to be their starting point and inspiration. If you want to start from the beginning, you may want to check out Mythic, the first all female doom/death metal band to commit their music to wax. Now female Doom metal did not start with Acid King, and I am even unsure of how much of an impact they had on the scene in general, I can only speak for myself.