Let's be honest, 'female-fronted metal' is a meme. Just like 'viking metal,' it refers to certain details of certain bands that really have no place defining their style. It's 2018, my dudes. That doesn't mean we don't think about the great female singers out there in metal, that we don't notice an exceptionally talented woman standing out in a male-dominated art. And, just like how the voices of Rob Halford, Geoff Tate, and Garm of Ulver tend to stand out from their peers', so, too, do certain female singers'. Let's be honest once again.

It's kind of difficult to think about who the 'female Halford/Tate/Garm/Dickinson' would be. Real football 3d28320x240293ajava game. Some fans might think of Cristina from Lacuna Coil, perhaps even the ladies from Arch Enemy, but we're patricians here. If we look at all the great music that slips past Loudwire and Revolver's notice, into the great, mysterious world of the metal/alt-rock underground, in my eyes, there is one woman, one female singer who stands out, who is an easy pick for the 'female Halford' of Metal. One artist who has collaborated with other notable upper-underground artists, one recognized enough to have the liberty to leave her established band to start and maintain her own new project, one with such a bold, passionate and outstanding voice.

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Anneke Van Giersbergen's Vuur UK And European Tour Dates 2018 Announced.

I am talking about Anneke van Giersbergen. And now that we are being honest, I will be honest: I prefer the style of her replacement in The Gathering, Silje Wergeland. I just love an ethereal voice like Wergeland's, I love how it fits into The Gathering's atmospheric and dreamy music. It's fantastic stoner and driving music, just great for kinda zoning out and taking in the feelings or scenery. But I would not argue at all that Wergeland is a more outstanding singer than Anneke. No, I don't think any woman in rock music has that honor. Listen to The May Song.

Listen to her passion, how her vibrato flows, how it bursts meaning and feeling into her words. Listen to Shrink. Listen to how Anneke joins herself in her harmonies, how those harmonies round out this crushing image of fragile desperation and heartbreak. The little changes and shifts in her singing voice, how she can bring the feelings in, then just let them out. Like crescendocore metal, boxed up in this woman's voice. Like you turn on the fuckin' shower, and Anneke's voice is the water, going from cold to warm, bathing you in its familiar comfort and washing away the shivers. Listen to Devin Townsend project performing 'Life' on the By A Thread DVD, when Devy had Anneke singing with him as she has on his albums.

Listen to 'Kingdom' too, from the same DVD, while you're at it. Listen to how much she adds. Listen to how 'Kingdom' fucking soars when she joins Devy on the high 'I'm Fiiiine!' That's exactly what I mean, guys.

Anneke is a powerful fucking singer. Giersbergen's voice has that same emotional power as Geoff Tate's on Mindcrime, the same 'awe' factor as Halford's in his prime, the same passion as Bruce Dickinson. I feel kind of shitty distinguishing Anneke as a 'great female singer,' I feel like she has every right to just be recognized as a 'great singer.' But as I said, we're being honest here.

Honest that a female singer in a male-dominated industry does stand out to an extent. And honest that, while there are certainly a number of talented women singing in metal and alternative rock, the first that comes to my mind when we're thinking about legends is Anneke van Giersbergen.

• I am out of practice writing. These are just my thoughts, they might not make much sense and I am not implying that they are any kind of objective truth.

• I am abbreviating two mens' names as G and P. I am not trying to exploit their names as fuel for my shitty metal blog, this already feels bordering on shitty for using their memories as 'content.' • With this, I am just trying to find a light in the darkness, so to speak. • I won't claim to have known either of these men beyond their Facebook presences - in a sense, I am talking of them in respect to those presences, powerful and impressionable as they absolutely were. At a certain point today, myself being depressed and listening to metal in bed, I scrolled through Facebook to find that G had taken his own life. G was a passionate man, one who shared my love for metal music. One who I was just starting to learn was quite a thoughtful dude, who had concise and truthful words to banish the thoughts that certain issues were even issues at all.