to bring use a story behind the news. we rolled about unbiased information for 3 months. the . um, yeah, i think we couldn't call her so fed us, you know, so there's has to be a little bit about us. another one, we're starting now with a rocket. the move on when we get to the point where it's nothing special and you move to play metal, no matter your gender. i think that's ultimately the big goal was actually the future of met that we, my opinion, belongs to the women, the

loud guitars, aggressive baselines and guttural vocals. heavy metal is tough music for tough guy who head bang and drink beer. heavy metal is for real men, men who go at each other in the mosh pit. and the women, they have no place here. for tuesday. the metal scene has long since opened up and become more diverse. women now play important roles in the middle community. that's fans. and as musicians we went to germany biggest heavy metal festival to take

a closer look or the 1st bucket open air festival took place and 1990 with just 800 visitors and 6 pounds. what began as an idea to combat rural boredom? developed into one of the biggest metal festivals in the world, attracting more than $80000.00 visitors within just a few years. in 1991 band with a female lead singer took to the stage acts and the band from cuba came back again . and again, in the following years, a few years later they were joined by middle icon double parish, who performed if locked in for the 1st time in 1993. yes, the learned that many women maybe a handful, but for me was quite natural. so i was one of the band, i was the senior and i didn't even realize it myself. i felt so comfortable and i

was always treated very, very nicely. mid 100. heavy metal emerged out of hard rock in the 1970s with fans like deep purple, led zeppelin and black sabbath. the scene was clearly male dominated. this had a lot to do with the perception of roles. metal has always been seen as hard, aggressive and loud. not exactly the stereotypical female characteristics. and yet women were there right from the start. the james dawson, who founded the us, found cousin in 1969 is considered one of the 1st occultism in black, massive, staged by a woman who described herself as a witch. that was hard stuff for the time when the hippies were still celebrating peace and flower power. one of the 1st middletown

susan members were only women was girls founded in 1978. they had to put up with a lot of sexes, comments critics, toward their outcomes apart, their career only really took off when the lead motorhead front, ma'am, let me kill mr. stood up for them. the great, the people treat them like 2nd costs persons because of the goals. it's really disgusting. the school are still around. they were and still are frequent guests fucking open air and their friends with festival boss, tomas, the and the growth. my work for go school for a long time, go school, which is actually a go band though. i mean they'll punch you in the face. don't worry. but i care whether it's sung by guy or lady, or that it doesn't matter

a toe for come or go. jensen has never differentiated between men and women in his work. what counts for him is what people can do. and so the back and crew is just as diverse as the festivals lineup. that's not true for us. it's natural sort of thing that dividing things that way is helpful. but booking code doesn't go asking 1st is a band sing go is it will and not if that yet does that. does that mean excessive in 1st play the fucking open air in 2001. she's been involved in the middle scene since 1980 was her band. holy moses on sundays has gotten to john the other soul drawing. everything was just opened to us. we could just do what we wanted. it was just new, but you are happy and of course it's a nice feeling to have started something for the scene to stop it. so how the crossing is regarded as the very 1st

growling and extreme woman in middle, her band members call her, the mother of all growled to and it is an honor. i have to say that people say hazel, be not. we found out that you were the 1st woman in the world to do these blades and growled, and i didn't plan it. it's what came out of me. it always comes. it's no normal for middle women to grow, show and roar. it's not a question of gender, but of technique. both women and men have to train their diaphragm and vocal chords to produce such sounds. wow, it's to log on to good. there, rosa is a 4 piece. all female thrash metal band before formed in brazil and 2010. no rosa can mean edgy or angry and particularly the bands aggressive appearance initially

surprised people in their home country. yes, of course there was a look at the press. do you know, like did i look for things that the people think that the, all the brazilian women's are always naked because this is getting over the like, so used to, i don't use the people because there's like faces for women don't fulfill those cliches. so now versus beginnings were pretty difficult, but they persevered i think everything that he knew we faces some challenges. we know that the math though it's more male fee, you know, i've particularly never pay up station so much. i was just wants to do what i love, what i dream, you know, and it was surrounding by persons that it was helping and supporting me. those ducks give people that was talking like bad things. i was not be they should i say

i don't care. i don't care, i have to listen, the critic stop it to be bad or of course to grow, but i feel like everything is possible. i feel metal musicians are not afforded those freedoms everywhere. in other regions of the world, they have to fear for their lives. because of their passion for metal. min conservatives largely muslim majority countries in the middle east. many middle pounds, male and miller likes to play underground news . british journalist orlando cro croft spent 6 years observing the metal scene and countries such as egypt, syria, saudi arabia and iran. and he wrote the book rock in a hard place about musicians have told him that they sometimes face draconian

punishments from imprisonment, floggings and paintings to the death penalty rainy and found, or saw mass, for example, flood abroad due to the threat of a prison sentence. the raj on, sorry, seniors a band master is person was flocked for alleged satanism. the when a big bull nose says castillo, this is no judge. they don't need to know they will kill you. ansari's band made on a heed, was also in danger. women are not allowed to sing in public in iran. the reason given is that women singing supposedly provoke sexual desire in met on a he sees this as the main reason why a rainy and women are not so active in music, especially in heavy metal and rock together with, i'm sorry, she left the country in 2012 there was the feel for the rest and even having

assets thrown on the face of bodies of women. what accidents and music loved and honest, considered comparatively tolerance towards heavy metal. still, the scene is viewed with suspicion. the last may i see is the founder of the all female middle band sleeve to silence. it took the guitar as more than a year to find all the musicians for her band. and then the women had to assert themselves. in certain cases, some guys were saying that were not good enough or very willing to take us seriously. as our menu are not physically gauge isn't to play these instruments. some people outside of the month wouldn't understand the sort of user and they would curse us. they think that we're bad. this is not lazy like to them, playing by the, the women of slave to sirens,

now live in several countries. the less mioshi, however, has remained in lebanon and leads the band from there. the there are middle heads all over the world, but how many are female and what do they listen to? studies on this are not very representative. the group of respondents, a small and metal is very diverse. there are more than 50 sumption, such as due trash, black or death metal. somebody can speak of several 100 varieties. in his study measuring the metal head psychologist nico, who was found out which styles women prefer the results. women tend to like melodic metal, such as gothic or metal porter. according to what was his research? the female fan base for classic metal is almost as large as the male fan base. under the sign of the devil horns, your social status is blood pulled up. macros is how hard you policy to the music,

the weather, hard or soft. the scene has long since opened up both on and off stage. working with women has become completely normal for many male musicians, like chris holmes from lord of the last others of, of old i work with people, regardless of the agenda. i'm happy when i say strong women in mexican, or in the music industry in general. but i've also experienced that when you emphasize that it can sometimes have a negative effect on devices. we may not actually want to be safe just as normal and then it just so you like to say like cool, the man. so the nice thing that's particularly important is nope, does this to them as best as the? yeah, i think we can color cells, but us, you know, so there's has to be

a little bit about us. self confidence is an important element for female metal bands burning, which is featuring women musicians from switzerland and the netherlands. not only have plenty of fat. they also have a lot of fun playing music. oh, this was fun. you know, this was fun to be with with all girls. girls just want to have fun. you know? yeah. so it's, it's the cliche that's it's, it's sometimes nice to be with all girls, you know. and, and that was the id to, to started bones. how fun they could have you mental and that's, that's just the start. it's fun to be strong and loud and sexy for the middle of the verse revealing outfits are not a contradiction to the hard music. they play their appearance as an integral part of the show, but the purpose is not necessarily to fulfill the fantasies of their male fans

seductive as website puts middle women in the spotlight. according to was the feeler and sylvia and friends of from austria who run the site sexiness simply part of the stage persona. for the idea that women can only be successful as they present themselves in a sexy way, is completely outdated. many examples show that this is no longer the case of the device figure. this thing that 62 is the lead singers with pure up erotic voices shape the image of women in the middle scene in the early 2, thousands fuel by 6 successful downs like evanescence. within temptation and nightwish, the term female fronted metal bands established itself the limiting term. it would also exclude an extremely large number of women. other female musicians such as tyrus race is from or is that it's

a long women can do everything. they don't just have to be pretty front. the women just felt call say, when you sexy is just waiting the best that the us with all the shame on my like store as something eyeliner. and that's a mess for music. nice, beautiful. so it'd be the either like me the way i am or they don't, i'm not going to get a make over or anything. i'm not going to change my outfit either, and i don't think it's important to give this tip to the young girls if you like it to do it, but don't do it for others. if you do, then do it for yourself. if you feel comfortable, your items will work for you. middle heads are like one big family. everyone is welcome, regardless of gender. like an open air reflects the diversity of the sea. what unites people is the love of music. fucking is considered a particularly peaceful festival. here you can be who and what you want to be

that's encouraged by various beamed areas like the waste land. the post apocalyptic area has been an integral part of sucking up in air since 2013. inspired by film such as water world or map max. the artist group, wasteland warriors performs wild shows and is closely associated with the metal festival among the wildly customs people in the group. they are as many women as men and wearing costumes like this with heavy weapons mix those with and feel something special. confidence often. yeah, the is like being as strong as male people are or maybe they have been written in the past, so it's really nice just be about as time girl or warry orchard, whatever it is. yeah. yeah. it's like really nice. the wasteland warriors have

complete freedom when designing their costumes. with one condition it has to be or you are like the reactions of the festival audience to the wasteland. women are very fun. some people are just very bold and just come up, come up to us and talk to us, but others are just like, keeping their distance more often because they don't know how to deal with it, which is great. that's like the independence that we ones like yes. what's your staff made? the they're a little bit desperate i think. but they have respect of cigarettes and a normal life. but nobody should need a weapon or a scary mask to feel comfortable. the middle, same claims to be the safest of all the but is that an idealized view?

in the early summer of 2023, the scandal surrounding alleged sexual assault ramstein concerts shattered the image of supposedly safe rock concerts for months. the music world debated how safe festivals and concerts are for women. the pc is the lead senior for drop kick murphy's. the irish folk punk them from boston plated fucking open air for the 1st time in 2023 funks and metal heads are very similar. he says, or in the funk world uh, the community aspect is very look out for each other and that woman would be very safe. and if they weren't to both, both as a performer in a fan that the audience is like the big brother, you know,

big sister and everyone's looking out for each other case. he plays many different kinds of festivals with his band. and he's also seeing other situations a lot of these country music festivals in america. it is incredible amounts of violence and sexual assault. and these are at the performances of bands that are supposed to be singing about family values and being good to each other. whereas they would probably view a punk and metal crowd is disrespectful and non honorable people yet. i feel like you would have way, wes. uh, you know, bad behavior at all shows or, or metal shows that things can happen and never where it doesn't matter. the type of music, you know, it's the people who use too much of drugs or get brawn can we can do a lot the wrong things that we will probably will feel bad later. i don't know and but in general i feel really safe for because i think the cuter of metal in a world, you know, it's more or less the same. we have the same way to think it's,

it's a lifestyle. it's not only a music you know. so in general, i feel really safe. i don't know the girls, but for me i think there's a nice contradiction between the appearance and the product there because the appearance, like you're a dark and all the news and heavy and like and as the behavior people are very nice and very um yeah, very polite, which one is trying to create a safe space for every one of those so beautiful in the community. noon. there's also a consensus among the middle head stick together. people are helpful, new friendships are made and celebrated up the camping area. the

needs of using the fancy and we've never been grad touched or anything else as you get off of the screen and everything and shelter everywhere. there's no metal which can you go to on the test of a site. it's just like one big family here and that's nice on the touch screen. of course, upon media. yeah, i should have never had a problem with it. never had the feeling that i was being picked on there actually all reason nice and friendly all the time. met them all they've been going on. if you're just, even if you're at the front of the stage, if you're dancing a pull going a machine, you're always helps up with something. i've never had a bad experience. i really have to say, have you middle seems to have the magical power to bring people together there even studies indicating that metal music can have a calming,

a positive effect on the psyche. the middle can give emotional support and make you strong. i grew up with it and also just like the only music i can really become when i listen to it, it doesn't, it doesn't matter how, how heavy it is or how, how loud i'm just really come inside and listen to it. i don't know if it's like male gives you forward to the car as to the something and i don't know and gives you my security for, for, for the women. and it's like a friendship. i, a lot of, of, i'm, and here's another study found that metal can help young people through difficult times the last mile see from slaves the sirens con, confirm this my task of somebody said, so i wasn't being all that so much of music was as giving me a voice and it was giving me like like it isn't

and it was so powerful to me. and it's really, really it helped me get up in the morning and just go. so yeah, most of the music gave me a lot. i mean, i think with us to use it. i don't think i'm the honestly, the, in the meantime women have gained a powerful partner. the internet, women who position themselves successfully online can be role models with their internet presence. female bands are also making sure that others can be more daring . for the new generation, the new girls, a younger girls are coming in and coming and coming, appearing every day, or discover new girls on nice the ground. you know, like, it's the new resource that we have. so i see they are coming. so we get to

a lot of young girls looking up to us and sending up messages like last time i was in friends, there's a girl, texted me and said like i, i'm learning too far because of you. so that's really powerful and it's motivates me to move for and keep pushing with, despite all the challenges facing a new service possibility as well. because as an all the various responsibilities as female fronted bands become more visible, online fans want to see them on the big stages to see more steam at us guessing books, playing big stages. so once we get the, i see like yes of course, the future event, especially the, the leaders and the industry like behind the scenes, the organizers of looking ations, this power for women who are bringing things together and buying this entire

community. so yeah, definitely in the future this of most of this in the metal scene is still dominated by men, but young women are closing the gap and can be stopped. being female is no longer an obstacle in the heavy middle. see the best example, double patch, who's been part of it for, for decades. now, and we have a song that the 1st thing called time for justice. and we chose it because i think it's very, very important worldwide. because in many countries, women in particular are not allowed to move freely. that's all and the music we make is not a lot there either. so there's still a lot a lot to do and yes, we'll keep fighting. we'll fight for the good, especially the women. they are rock hope, we can see each other, we can support that each other. and the i see actually the future off the math that

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