Paramore wouldn’t be the band they are today without the vocal talent and creativity of lead singer Hayley Williams. Read more: How Maggie Lindemann finally made a screamo track with Siiickbrain Hayley Williams – Paramore These artists of the 2000s set out to continue establishing the presence and importance of women in alternative music. From heavy metal all the way to electropop, artists such as Lights Poxleitner-Bokan and Sierra Kay proved that women were a force to be reckoned with and intended to expand their presence by participating in Warped Tour and other well-known festivals. They defined what it meant to be a woman in the 2000s alternative subculture and helped pave the way for future generations. Despite the “boys’ club” of emo, punk and pop-punk communities, the women on this list were breaking down the doors and critiquing music industry standards. Following in the footsteps of riot grrrls, they proudly represented the fact that women rock just as hard, if not harder, than men. He has been hailed by fellow musicians, fans, journalists, and advocates a leader and role model among such other LGBT performers as Adam Lambert, the great Freddie Mercury, and even Elton John.Throughout the 2000s, women started to dominate the alternative music scene with their powerful stage presence and otherworldly talent. Halford has been a vocal proponent of equality of rights in the LGBT community and frequently speaks out about his experiences coming out in the music industry, in particular, heavy metal.
through this unfortunate episode, the band still rages on and has a hit with its latest album Firepower. Since then, Priest has only become even bigger in terms of albums and tours, and is still a force to be reckoned with in heavy metal, despite setbacks in personnel, including the recent announcement of the departure of original guitarist Glenn Tipton, who had to step out due to health concerns from Parkinson’s Disease. He came out in 1998 in an interview with MTV News. Looking back, with the black tight leather, chains, and suggestive lyrics, it’s no surprise that Halford is a gay man, and proud of it. Along with Iron Maiden, Moorhead and Black Sabbath, Priest, are considered to be the Godfathers of heavy metal and were formative as one of the early UK bands to bring in the sounds of the New Wave of Brittish Heavy Metal in the late 70s/early 80s. Rob Halford (aka The Metal God) of the mighty Judas Priest is the quintessential example of the evolution of heavy metal music in the early to mid-1980s. MDC has gained notoriety in today’s world of Trump, due to Green Day’s 2017 use of the anti-Trump chant “No Trump! No KKK! No fascist USA!” This came directly from MCD’s 1982 song Born To Die, which has the lyrics “No war! No KKK! No fascist USA!”
Dictor has long been an LGBT advocate with MDC and even wrote his own book entitled Memoir From a Damaged Civilization: Stories of Punk, Fear, and Redemption, published in 2016. Since then the band has been raging on against homophobes, capitalists, and racists using the force of hardcore punk. Dictor took time off from the band in 1995 and reformed with a new revamped line up in 2000. In 2018 Otep is back with a vengeance with a new album(and subsequent tour) due later this year, which focuses on contemporary issues and societal change.Īustin, Texas-based hardcore punk band MDC might be known by different names including Millions of Dead Cops, Multi-Death Corporation, Millions Of Dead Children, and Millions Of Damn Christians, but since the beginning of the band, in 1979, the one constant has been the frantic, charismatic frontman Dave Dictor, who has used the fury of punk to sing against racism war, corporate control, and in favor of animal and human rights, equality for gays, minorities, and women. She has been an open Lesbian and in 2010 was a GLAAD nominee for Outstanding Music Artist, alongside Lady Gaga and Adam Lambert.
The band has undergone numerous line u0p changes, but as the woman behind the music Otep has persevered, and in addition to her band, she is a political activist, speaking on Liberal leaning progressive issues and victims/women’s’ rights. From the early days, Otep’s band managed to merge the sounds of Slipknot and Pantera, led by a frontwoman. Since 2002, Otep landed on the LA metal scene and with the force of aggression at the band’s performance, it somehow managed to get the attention of Sharon Osborne, who landed them a spot on the Ozzfest tour making her the first woman to perform on the tour. Otep Shamaya is a singer, songwriter, poet, artist, lyricist, spoken word artist activist and lead singer in the band that shares her name, an anagram for poet.