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 ...

Medan, Indonesia – The Indonesian female metal band Voice of Baceprot are worried about their upcoming performance at Glastonbury in the west of England, but not because they’ll be playing in ...

Formed by Joan Jett and Sandy West in the mid-'70s, the "queens of noise," while somewhat popular in the US, became a huge hit in Japan, where they took their raucous, drug-fueled lifestyle—as ...

dean of the performing arts faculty at the Jakarta Institute of Arts – and a self-professed metalhead – told CNN. While all female fronted acts are a rarity even in the wider, male-dominated ...

back when UK institution Motorhead played with all-female rockers Girlschool and every metalhead had a poster of German metal chanteuse Doro Pesch hanging by his Iron Maiden flag. The newest crop ...