Women’s Day: 5 bands that prove that the future of rock is female

In the last few days, an excerpt from a live by the musician (and currently a commentator on everything) Ed Motta It went viral on various social networks. In the clipping, the artist comments, among other things, that “rock” people are “misogynists”.

Ed’s mesmerizing charisma and eloquence can even make us lose focus on the importance and relevance of what is said, but it is a fact that, for a long time, the style music scene really didn’t have much opening for female bands and artists.

Despite the success of names like blonde, The Runnaways, heart and, here in Brazil, Rita Leewhenever rock is mentioned, invariably bands made up of men are always remembered and worshipped.

Over the decades, as in many other sectors of society, women began to gain more and more space in this very closed niche: L7, Hole, Alannis Morisette, Paramore, Pitty are some of the examples.

In recent years, however, not only have female artists managed to keep their voices relevant and active, but they have taken a leading position within the style, bringing sonic and aesthetic innovations that point to a modern and attitude-filled future for the style.

So, let’s go to the list? Here are 5 examples of artists and bands that prove that the future of rock is female:

1 – New Twins – England

Despite their name, Amy Love (guitar and vocals) and Georgia South (bass, backing vocals and programming) are not twins. The two friends formed the group in 2014 in London under the name BRAATS and released the song “Bad Bitches”.

The following year they released the first single, as Nova Twins: “Bassline Bitches” (you can see a certain pattern there, huh…) was well received and secured a contract with the independent label Robotunes.

They released their first album, titled “Who Are The Girls?”, in 2020 and, in the same year, they won the UK Breakthrough Band award at the Heavy Music Awards.

The heavy sound, which goes through hip hop and punk, always with the heavy and striking bass from Georgia South dictating the rhythm (literally, in this case), caught the attention of Tom Morello, guitarist of Rage Against The Machine, who classified them as as “the best band you’ve never heard of”.

At the beginning of the year, the release of the second album, “Supernova”, for June 2022 and released the first single of the work.

2 – Amyland The Sniffers – Australia

There’s no way to watch a video of Amy Taylor’s live performance (vocals) without exclaiming a resounding “oh crazy” at the end! The frontwoman’s energy and charisma is impressive.

With a sound rooted in 1970s punk and Australian rock, the group (completed by drummer Bryce Wilson, guitarist Dec Martens and bassist Fergus Romer) was formed in 2016 in Australia.

Since then, they’ve released two albums, toured successfully in their home country and Europe, caught the attention of Dave Grohl (who invited them to open for Foo Fighters on the band’s most recent Australian tour) and won the award for Best Rock Album at the ARIA Music Awards (Australian Music’s Biggest Awards) in 2019 with their first self-titled album.

In 2021, they released “Comfort To Me”, their second studio work, which maintains the raw and heavy sound but brings some references to New York rock from the early 80s, post-punk and hardcore.
If you have the chance to see the band live, go (and record to post on the internet later, please)!

3 – The Linda Lindas – United States

“Just before we went into lockdown, a boy in my class came to me and said that his father told him to stay away from Chinese people. After I said I’m Chinese, he walked away from me.” So begins one of the most punk rock videos of the last few decades.

The line is by Mila de la Garza, drummer and lead singer of the band The Linda Lindas, and she delivers the speech shortly before performing “Racist, Sexist Boy” (the group’s first single), at a concert recorded at the Los Angeles public bookstore. . In addition to Mila, her sister Lucia de la Garza, cousin Eloise Wong and friend Bela Salazar complete the formation of the band.

The video of the performance was posted on YouTube, went viral and, in a short time, the girls were signed by Epitaph Records (one of the biggest punk rock labels in the world, commanded by Brett Gurewitz – guitarist of the legendary band Bad Religion), they advertised for Fender (a brand of musical instruments) and were invited to play the song on Jimmy Kimmel Live, one of the biggest talk shows on North American TV.

The girls have already announced the release of their first album for April this year and have released the first two singles from the work: the great Growning Up and Talking To Myself.

Ah, detail: the members are only between 11 and 17 years old.

4 – Babymetal – Japan

Kawaii is an adjective that, in Japanese, means “cute, graceful, adorable” (and is also the name of a social network). Kawaii Metal is a combination of J-Pop (pop music with elements of Japanese culture) and heavy metal. Yes, I’m serious! It exists, and the greatest exponent of this style is Babymetal.

The band was formed in 2010 by producer Kobametal. His idea was to use his SU-Metal talent (former member of pop group Sakura Gakuin) in a kawaii metal band. He completed the lineup with YuiMetal and Moametal (only 10 years old at the time), to add even more layers of madness to the entire project, contrasting the girls’ angelic performances with the extremely heavy sound.

Success came quickly. The group’s first work was released in 2014 and was the best-selling Japanese album in the North American market that year, catching the attention of artists from all over the world, such as the British group Bring Me The Horizon, who invited them to participate in a track of its most recent release.

In 2019, they released Metal Galaxy, which went even further: it debuted at No. 13 on the Billboard chart, the highest position for a Japanese-language album in history.

5 – Crypt – Brazil

To finish our list, we have a national representative of the so-called “roque pauleira”, the infamous Heavy Metal.

Crypta is a death metal band and was formed in 2019 by Fernanda Lira, ex-vocalist and bassist of Nervosa, a group that had been growing a lot on the world stage. After her departure, Lira called drummer Luana Dametto (also ex-Nervosa) and guitarists Tainá Bergamascho and Sônia Anubis (of Dutch nationality).

They released their first work in 2021: “Echoes Of The Soul” was well received by critics and was produced by the acclaimed Jens Bogren (famous for working with names like Opeth, Dimmu Borgir and Sepultura).

With a world tour already announced, Crypta will certainly maintain Brazil’s tradition of extreme music, overcoming prejudices (which, in the metal niche, are even heavier – pardon the pun) and linguistic and cultural barriers, such as big names as Sepultura and Ratos de Porão did and still do today.