While Kristen May might be best known now as the new singer for Flyleaf, she has been in the music scene for nearly a decade. She paid her dues in rock band Vedera and contributed her versatility singing and playing guitar and piano over the span of three albums before the group disbanded.
Pay very close attention to Carina Round. Tapped by Maynard James Keenan to be his Puscifer co-vocalist on the brilliant 2011 album 'Conditions of My Parole,' Carina is a versatile musician whose music transcends genres.
Shrieking siren Kat Katz is one of the most powerful women in the world behind a mic. Inspired by Thorr's Hammer frontwoman Runhild Gammelsæter, Katz developed her piercing screams and low gutturals while in high school.
Canada’s Kittie brought the metal genre to its knees with their debut album, 'Spit,' in 1999. Morgan was only 17 while Mercedes was a mere 15 years old when the album was released, but goes on record to say that the songs were written when they were even younger.
Bassist Emma Anzai’s story with Sick Puppies is a pretty interesting one. The band formed when she and current bandmate Shimon Moore both booked a practice room for the same time at their high school. They decided to jam together and a band was born.
Prior to becoming married to Nine Inch Nails mastermind Trent Reznor, Mariqueen Maandig fronted the dreampop band West Indian Girl. Her influences from this group make for a caustic atmosphere with Reznor’s darker influences that meld in How To Destroy Angels.
Dead Sara boast not one, but two phenomenal females. Led by frontwoman Emily Armstrong, Dead Sara released their debut self-titled album in 2012, unleashing some of the most purely powerful rock to hit mainstream radio in years.
Operatic singer Tarja Turunen is best known for her nearly decade-long tenure as the voice of symphonic Finnish power metal band Nightwish. What’s most impressive about her is that before joining the band, she was never into heavy metal.
Having fronted the Agonist, Alissa White-Gluz recently took over as the lead vocalist of Arch Enemy following the departure of fellow supreme rock goddess Angela Gossow.