Hi everyone, this is Eva from Bloodhunter and you're listening to the Metal Pit Podcast.
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podcast, email me info at TheMetalPit.org. I am your host Blake, I guess I should have said that
when I said me, Blake. And today I have a special guest. I have, first I'm going to say, where is
it, I'm going to say bye-bye to Jamina. Oh bye-bye, you said it wonderfully. It's a good day in
Finnish. Yeah, you said it perfectly. Hello everyone. And yeah, and that's my only Finnish
that I know since you just taught me before we started. People think I looked it up myself
and figured it out, but I didn't. She helped me. Okay, so you're the lead singer of the Finnish
metal band Swan Song and I actually, where are we, I actually was the first person to review
your latest album Awakening, I believe on The Metal Pit, right? Yes, for The Metal Pit and thank
you so much for the awesome review. Our debut album Awakening was released last Christmas,
December. So it came out and we are so excited. It was our first full album and it has gotten
amazing feedback and also we have been doing gigs in Finland and this summer we are doing metal
festival gigs in Finland, Tuska Festival and also Nummi Rock Festival and other cool stuff. So very
excited. That's good. Now I know I really liked the album, I was really impressed by it and I never
heard of yous before I listened to it and I never listened to your EP, I just listened to that album
and reviewed it and I was happy to see other reviews came in after me that were also positive
so that made me feel like I knew what I was talking about. Yeah, thank you so much. It felt
awesome because it's also my first album ever as a vocalist and it felt so heartwarming to have those
reviews and it's an honor to be here. I respect you and The Metal Pit and greetings from our boys
also greetings from Finland. Thank you and thank you for joining me. Now for people that don't
know who you are, of course I'm gonna put your name and everything in the description of this podcast
but how would you describe the music of your band, Swan Song? Well we are a melodic death metal band
with 80s 90s metal heavy metal influences, old school stuff, riffs, harmonies, lots of cool guitar
solos, emotional solos and I'm the vocalist, I scream, I growl, I try to do versatile stuff
so check it out, you might be surprised. Yes, everybody should check it out and you said that
you mentioned that you've played a few shows and how has your first few shows went playing the new
songs? Amazing, amazing, we loved it. First we went to Lahti, Finland and we thought maybe nobody
will show up because we're a new band but there were lots of people and they knew our songs, they
screamed Play Winter Maiden and Play Maiden of Death and we were so happy, it was amazing and
finally to perform those album songs so it made us very very happy. That's great. Now obviously
for a new band and you're in Finland, I mean you got lots of countries that you can go to, do you
have any plans to do any countries close to you or right now you're just sticking in Finland to play live?
We have had some questions from abroad, for example Norway and hopefully in the future
we will definitely go. We would love to tour but now we are making new music,
it's keeping us busy. Topi, our guitarist, he's making these new cool tunes, something fast
and also something beautiful and slow, lots of versatile stuff for the second album and also we
have gigs in Finland now so that's keeping us busy but maybe in the future you can follow us
in our social media Instagram and Facebook, Swansong, so you can see where the path leads us.
Yes and people can say that you need to come to my country.
Yeah hopefully so, we'd love that. And sorry about my Finnish rally English everyone, I hope you
hear what I'm saying. I am trying to articulate. I can understand you perfectly fine so I'm sure
it's fine for everybody else too. Now we are going to talk about, we're still going to do my regular
podcast, we just did a little test and we're going to do a little bit of a live broadcast
and we're going to do a little chat to introduce you so people know who you are and so they can go
check you out. And I kind of let you, I gave you some bands to pick from and with the album we
decided on was Iron Maiden's fourth album, Peace of Mind. Yeah. But before we start on that,
I wanted to ask you, I should have said this before that I guess, how did you get into heavy
metal music? Like what bands or maybe what album or who influenced you to listen to heavy metal
music? When I was a kid, my stepfather, he listened to lots of blues, vinyls, albums and also rock and
roll and lots of Finnish rock and roll and he always taught me vinyls are the thing when I was
a kid. And my big brother, he played a guitar and he was a cool metal dude, he had long hair
and his room was off limits. I wasn't allowed to go into his room but he listened to death metal,
black metal, melodic death metal and I sat before his door and listened closely what he was listening
and then I heard death metal Obituary and their album Slowly We Rot, first album and then the 90s
Cause of Death. Yes. So this Florida death metal, very cool and it almost sounded to me
that the vocalist was vomiting and I thought this is so cool, I want to be like my big brother,
he's a badass dude, he's got this leather jacket, long hair, he plays a guitar and sometimes he would
let me, he would open the door and let me look into his room and watch when he played the guitar
and death metal and then it really exploded my metal journey when I heard, do you know the Finnish
band Children of Bodom? Yes, yes. Yeah of course, our Children of Bodom. I heard when he played
Children of Bodom and I was like what is this? I have never heard anything like this, it was fast,
like a lightning and Alexi Leijo played so fast and the drummer was amazing and fast, there was
nothing like it, there was nothing like it in Finland and also Alexi's voice was this kind of
black metal, evil, mean stuff and that's when I thought this is the best music ever, now I'm a
metalhead. Yeah. And we were talking before we went on about us both being shy at one point,
or I guess I'm still shy, but you were talking about how you were shy and you didn't start singing
or you didn't want anybody to know that you wanted to be a singer or whatever, but so was it the
growling that really made you want to be a singer? Yeah, because I think when I did clean singing
and I was in a chorus, it's very like emotional, you have to be gentle and what's the word in
English, a bit vulnerable, but when you growl, when I started growling, I got to be like angry
and emotional and let everything out in a different way, of course also vulnerable and everything, but
it just woke something in me that I am not only this shy person, I can also let everything out
this way and it felt very natural to me and very like this is my thing. That's cool. And of course
I sounded horrible, horrible when I started for a long time, but still it felt good inside. Yes,
now so like I say, we're going to talk about Animated Peace of Mind album and for people
listening, if maybe this is your first time listening, we've already did the first,
we've already did the first Iron Maiden album, we've done Killers, we've done Number of the
Beast and we've done Powerslaves, so this is the last of the first five Iron Maiden albums for us
to do, so if you like this podcast, make sure you go back and check those out. When did you first
hear Iron Maiden then? I also heard Iron Maiden from my big brother in his room and I liked it
because it was also beautiful, those harmonies and the lead guitar and stem, I don't know what's it
in English, but in Finnish it's stem guitars. The combination of the two guitars was something I
didn't understand then what it was, but it was beautiful and of course Bruce's voice is amazing,
he can go high with his voice, it's very powerful. And actually even though people have heard this
story from me, but I guess I'll tell you since you're here with me, Iron Maiden is the first
heavy metal group I ever heard really, I mean because I'm from Canada and I lived out in the
country on a farm and so back then of course we had no internet back then and so you would just
have radio stations, so I would hear Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple on the radio and stuff like that,
which I liked, but I never heard the term heavy metal until I got the number of the beast album
by Iron Maiden, so that was my introduction to heavy metal as the number of the beast.
And of course I became an instant fan and then of course as soon as this came out I'm sure I ran out
and bought it. Oh awesome. Okay so Pisa, I'll mention this, Pisa Mine like I said for studio
album released May 1983 on Capitol Records in North America and EMI in I guess Europe I'm assuming,
it says the UK from my notes I have but I'm sure it's everywhere else too, it was the first album
to feature Nico McBrain on the drums who is still the drummer today and this was the first Iron Maiden
album, like just the fourth one, but the first of the four to not have a song named after the title
of the album, Peace of Mind, so there's no song called Peace of Mind, but of course in the song
Still Life they do say the phrase Peace of Mind. And let's see, note, well the band on this probably
most people are going to know, so I'm not going to do a bio on Iron Maiden because I figure everybody
knows who Iron Maiden is I would hope, but the band for this album just in case you don't know
is of course Bruce Dickinson on vocals, Steve Harris bass, Dave Murray and Adrian Smith on the
guitars and Nico McBrain which I mentioned on the drums and originally the working title for this
album was called Food for Thought and I'm kind of glad they didn't call it that, but it was because
of Eddie being lobotomized on the cover and you know how inside the cover they're sitting down
with a brain going to have dinner or whatever so I think that's what Food for Thought is, but
while they were recording it they decided on Peace of Mind instead. Cool, so we're going to start with
the songs and we're going to start with of course Where Eagles Dare, what do you think of Where Eagles
Dare? It has lots of instrumental stuff on this song and cool riffs that I think stick in your head
and Classical Maiden, there are lots of Harry's war theme stuff on this album so it's a good start
for me it was a surprising start because it has so much instrumental on it, but awesome song.
Yes, it's not like a short song which sometimes they would start an album with like you know
Ace is High on the Power Slave one or whatever, it's kind of a long one, it's six minutes and I like
the the drumming right at the start it kind of shows Nico McBrain right off the bat like
he I'm here and so here I am replacing Clyde Burr who was on the first three albums and I find
yeah and the song is Where Eagles Dare which is also a World War II spy movie which was about
commandos working for British intelligence during 1943-44 and their mission is to parachute into the
snowy Alps behind enemy lines and infiltrate the fortress known as the Castle of the Eagles so I
guess that's where Steve Harris got the idea for the lyrics for this song. Yeah he takes ideas from
movies and books also so that's cool. Yes and they've always done that I think that's probably
it was probably good for the fans too and you know because you know they were new
at the not this was the fourth album but I mean you know there's parents that would criticize
think they're Satan worshippers because of the number of the bees and then the kids could say
but they read books like we're movies. Okay then we go to Revelations and what do you think of Revelations?
It's an awesome song it's very groovy and it's very versatile this is Bruce's lyrics
and something very emotional about this one right before the solo which is awesome solo
by the way the energy rises so before the solo I think it's a bit slower and emotional
but then it rises the song rises I love the quote she came to me with a serpent's kiss oh I love these lyrics
beautiful ending where Bruce sings very subtle gentle voice it is you I love the ending and I
heard I don't know if this is true but our guitarist and our composer Tobi who loves Iron Maiden
he told me that when Iron Maiden toured and they played this song live Bruce did play a guitar
in this song a bit. Oh I mean I like I've seen Iron Maiden many times and that could have happened
I just probably don't remember because it's probably been a long time because I don't know
if they still keep playing this song or not and it's probably been a long time but I think
they still play this song or not and it's been a few years since I've seen them but yes I could
definitely see that anyway yeah I heard he doesn't do do that anymore but back in the day he did it so
cool well back when this album came out of course they only had the two guitarists now they have
three so I guess they have no need for him to pick up a guitar you know too he's kind of busy
running around the stage and stuff usually let's see and well you covered a lot on that song but
yeah I guess the song is influenced by Alastair Crowley which I think they have a lot of songs
like that or influenced by that and it's the first two tracks both come in at over six minutes kind
of showing how even though there was it was a long like Phantom of the Opera and the second album was
long of course and how would be their name on the third one there but they're kind of getting into
more longer songs maybe more progressive like or whatever and you mentioned the love of your
guitarist for Iron Maiden I can hear that influence in your music sometimes when the guitars are doing
melodic playing and stuff and yes I can definitely hear the influence there yeah definitely he doesn't
mean it yeah but he has been listening to Iron Maiden since he was a kid so it's it comes from
his heart accidentally the Iron Maiden influence yeah there's nothing definitely nothing wrong with
it it's yes okay then we go to the first single off the album Flight of Icarus which is one of my
favorite songs on this album probably my favorite one on the album I think but what do you think of
Flight of Icarus well actually I don't know what it's called in English but this horse gallop
rhythm yes it's called gallop rhythm galloping yes yeah galloping with slower tempo but it's
still galloping this influenced us because our song Winter Maiden we have galloping there
and some people said to us like what are you thinking galloping is not cool necessarily
but we thought it's definitely cool and if Iron Maiden does something it's like super cool
so this this song influenced us very much I hear a lot of galloping in other bands I don't think
there's anything wrong with it I know yeah it might have been one of the first ones that kind of
did it especially with the song the Trooper when I get to that one especially on that one but
yes and this is a very catchy song it hit number eight on the billboard album tracks list back in
84 I guess and it's like the run to the hills of this album and I know I read where like they
wanted a song Steve Harris didn't like the song he didn't even want to release it I don't think
but Bruce insisted that they release it they said we're going to get on the radio and stuff like that
in the United States which they were trying to break through on even though I think they kind
of did already with Number of the Bees but it definitely was a song that could be played on the
radio and stuff yes but yes and I love Bruce's I think I when I was younger whatever 18 or whatever
his long scream in the song I think I timed it to see how long it was it was like 15 seconds I think
that's amazing yeah he's a power powerhouse amazing vocalist and this is the most iconic
classic lineup yes then we end side one with die with your boots on and what do you think of this
song now you don't have to love every song just in case you're just in case you lean to a song
whether you know but how do you think of what do you think of die with your boots on one of the best
songs on this album I think and they have not been playing this so much live I think but it's a
it's a great song classic maiden song everything maiden is about I love it
I love it yes sorry lost myself I like the the lyrics like the 13 the beast is rising the french
man did surmise through earthquakes and starvation the warlord will arise continue but I love all that
lyrics again and of course I don't know I because I'm trying to read some people's thoughts and what
they think songs are about and one person thought die with your boots on means die trying yeah
definitely and the lyrics go no point asking who's to blame because if you're gonna die if you're
gonna die and it these lyrics are definitely do what you do what you love and when you leave
you live with your boots on yes that's right that's what you do yeah
uh okay yes so then we get to I think this is the second single I know it's I'm yeah they probably
only had two singles back then but anyway this is the second single and probably one of the most
popular iron maiden songs ever the trooper and we got some galloping in this so what do you think
of the trooper whoo uh no words no words needed one of the best songs ever this melody is genius
genius amazing uh I don't know I don't know how did they come up with this this is like their
paranoid maybe paranoid uh it's amazing song and uh there is no chorus I think and no bridges
there's only verses so it's not your typical uh song but it's still a hit and when you can do
a hit without bridges and choruses it's amazing and the riffs are awesome awesome lead guitars
and the harmonies with stem guitars I don't know what's it in English when we say twin guitars I
guess is what we twin guitars yeah those harmonies what they do together in this song is amazing and
it's typical for iron maiden yes and I think there's a great guitar solo in this song as well
I mean there's lots of great solos everywhere but yeah um oh and this yeah and this is like a staple
in their live set they've actually according to like the web sometimes they look at the website
setlist.fm it's called where they keep track of how many songs they play live or whatever and
the trooper is the fourth song they've played the most live just after like iron maiden which of
course they play at every show and then I remember the beast in hell would be the name of the only
two that have been played more than the trooper it's even been played more than run to the hills
which is surprising actually oh cool and then we go to this is actually I think this is my
this is my favorite song on the album still life I don't know maybe because I like the lyrics
because they're kind of like horror kind of lyrics and stuff so what do you think of still life
I also love this one it's hard to be critical because this album is so awesome this is a jewel
this song is a jewel I think I also love the lyrics and the nightmare stuff it's very emotional
you know nightmares forever calling me nightmares now we rest in peace I wish I could come up with
these these kind of genius lyrics and it's amazing amazing song well the this this song
is the reason I don't swim because I'm afraid to go into a swimming pool
yeah and actually the song starts with a backwards message as they said that since they were getting
criticized for being satan worshipers they thought as a joke they'd put a backwards message
on the album and it's actually nico mcbrain doing a little schtick and he ends it with a burp of
course oh I didn't know that yes now there is if you want to if somebody wants to look on wikipedia
it actually says what he's saying but I didn't want to because I wouldn't get it right if I tried to
say what it because some of the words don't make much sense but it's on that wikipedia if you want
to go look that up um what there was something oh yeah still life and they've only played this song
live 45 times according to that website and I believe I did see them play it live because
I can't remember the year but I saw iron maiden where they did a tour that where they only played
songs from the first four albums on the concert so it was just songs from the first four albums and
I think they played still life that night so I guess that was one of the 45 times that I heard
it it was probably on that tour it's probably the only time they played that song so I was happy to
get the hear still life live because I don't think I've heard it in any of the other shows
yeah that's special yes and then we go to why is it quest for fire and what do you think now I was
reading some other people's comments and a lot of people don't like this song I don't mind it what
do you think of quest for fire well many people say that the first six songs are are good amazing
on this album and then after the six songs it uh what's the word downwards a bit but uh I think
quest for fire is amazing high vocals show off from bruce he goes amazingly high in this one
in the verses and harry's lyrics uh adventure in his lyrics adventure theme I think so
great riffs very good solo I don't know about the technical stuff in solos
like many guitarists but I think the solo is emotional so I like this song very much and when
I looked up some reviews on this album I was surprised that the Rolling Stones uh reviewed
this album only two stars from five stars so that was that was surprising to me
I don't yeah roll I don't I don't really like Rolling Stone they don't I don't think they
know too much about heavy metal sometimes okay sometimes they do but of course there's always
gonna be people yeah I did I was going through some reviews too and I saw somebody giving
them like a one or two all they wasn't Rolling Stones just just just people in general get given
their own reviews somewhere and yeah somebody's giving it four and a half out of five and then
somebody's throwing in a two same stairway and then somebody's throwing in a three and a four
and it's terrible or whatever but it's just your own opinion I guess right so yeah yeah a lot of
people didn't like the lyrics on this song they thought it was kind of they didn't like the lyrics
but I don't know I didn't and I don't know if this was there's a movie from I think the movie was
from Canada actually called Quest for Fire or something and it was about the same kind of idea
that what the song is so I'm not sure if that's where they got the idea if Steve Harris got the
idea from that movie or it was just something else yeah it's adventurous you can forget your
daily life and walk with the dinosaur and fight with the cannibal tribes and I think it's a fun
fun song and what you said about opinions I think it's very comforting comforting as an artist that
someone as awesome as Iron Maiden one of the best bands ever a big name if they can also get two
stars from five stars from someone it's very comforting to other people who make music I think
because music is art and it's a everybody has their opinion and you can't please everyone no
matter what you do so that's right now this this song they've never played this one live according
to that website or the next song either they've never played Sun and Steel live either and I like
this song it's just a short rocking song Mark Gallup in here but how do you think of this song
Sun and Steel it starts with very legendary in my opinion very legendary drums Iron Maiden drums
first with Nico but I think it's some kind of the lyrics are sad to me because this person has killer
instinct he has to be a warrior killed your first man at 13 a 13 year old is a child so it's a bit
sad that some somewhere in the world you have to be this warrior when you're a child you can't be a
child so it's a bit sad although although the music is not sad in this song but the lyrics for me
are a bit sad well apparently it's about the life of a samurai legend now there's a name here I guess
I'll try to say it Miyamoto Musashi is the name so apparently it's about him I don't know how accurate
that is but I read that I just made a note of that but yes it's a very catchy song I mean catchy
the music's catchy and it's another great guitar solo in there but yes if you really dive into
lyrics it is sad that you know you have to fight when you're 13 for sure but they don't make it
yeah they definitely don't make the song seem sad in the music and the way they play yeah and I think
it's supposed to be an empowering song for example if your hobby is boxing or something like that
this is an empowering song but as a woman my empathy just woke and I thought he should be a
child when he's 13 yeah but it's a good song and a little faster and then we end off the album with
the longest song which is almost seven and a half minutes and that's to tame a land and what do you
think of to tame a land well this song has a beautiful beginning and
the first first you hear these beautiful melodies and then the song starts with a headbanging riff
it's a bit surprising but it's very Iron Maiden we have a song called Winter Maiden which starts a
bit slow and also on our debut album song called Frost of Winter and we also start those songs with
a little bit slower a clean clean guitar there and then it starts after that with a bang so
we have been also influenced by this song our band Swan Song
and uh Bruce sings the verse a bit lower he becomes a more serious on this one because
he's singing about this mighty king who ruled even the sand worms so his voice gets a bit lower and
it's very serious because it's about this mighty king and I really like the bridges on this one
there's a awesome awesome melody on the bridges and this is a long song but still not boring
to me uh half of the song it comes a bit faster when we when we are in the middle of the song
on the half it becomes faster and then Bruce's voice rises higher I think I think that's cool
it's very versatile in this song and the ending ending melody is so beautiful when the song
comes to an end and the whole album comes to an end there's a beautiful beautiful ending and it's
very iron maiden to me and yes and as a singer when you listen to like maybe this album back then are
you thinking oh I want to try that like do you try to do what he's doing sometimes or are you just
listening like everyone else yeah I have I have tried sometimes it's amazing how how high he can
go it's it resonates up in his forehead I think yeah he can he can go very high
I don't know if if I can go that high but maybe I have to practice more
you're doing just fine now this song is actually they wanted to call it noon
about the novel of the same name but they had to the person that wrote it Frank Herbert so they had
to get his permission and he said he doesn't like rock bands particularly heavy rock bands and
especially bands like iron maiden so they couldn't use that name so they had to call it to tame the
land oh and now he's probably I'm not sure if this I'm not sure how old that person is if he's still
alive but now he's probably thinking oh I should have let them do that yeah but yeah it's a good
song it's like it's kind of like rhyme in the ancient mirror which comes on the next album
which has the middle part of the song slows right down and then you pick up again for the solo section
there's lots of great drum work on that song and I could I read a lot of people's comments again
saying how this is like their favorite song and I was surprised thinking that maybe people didn't
like this song I don't know why even though I like the song but but anyway so that's the album that
was like 45 minutes which was an average time of for an album back then and I know you're not a
album reviewer but would you be able to rate this album out of 10
I would say 9.5 very good now I was gonna I was I was gonna give it a 9 9 out of 10 would be how I
would probably review it I suppose so we're pretty close yeah pretty close awesome now have you ever
seen Iron Maiden Live yourself yes last year in Tampere Finland I cried I cried my eyes out
it was amazing and even when Eddie Eddie came on the stage I like cried Nico to me was like
like cried Nico to me was was amazing Bruce still he sings to me there was nothing nothing wrong
with his voice he's amazing so I just enjoyed every minute of it it was like a theater
theater and what how do you say theater theater theater yeah and also an opera at the same and
rock rock festival and badass music heavy rock metal stuff so I loved it yeah it was amazing
well I've probably seen them about 10 times over the years and my first one was on the Power Slave
Tour that was my first time seeing an Iron Maiden was on that tour and that was probably that was
1984 that I seen that but I won't talk about I've probably talked about that before in all the
podcasts anyway so that's the album that was great we talked about that album and I know you mentioned
before we started about obituary but I'm not a big guy into death metal so even though I would have
been willing to do that album other writers on my staff probably would have been upset that I talked
about that album since they know it way better than I do so I'm glad we went with Iron Maiden
since I definitely know them really well yeah and I love death metal I love melodic death metal
I love heavy metal many many different styles so I'm also happy we we did this yes and now
and we usually finish off the episode with a top 10 list and I didn't know if you would participate
but you said you got a list for me and we're going to do I thought since we have a female here as my
guest female vocalist that we would do top 10 female I have hard rock metal is because some of
mine might be hard rock girls not necessarily heavy metal because I'm going for a little bit of I have
a few Canadians on here probably that you've never heard of before me possibly and some that
didn't last very long but they're still special to me I guess because I probably grew up listening to
them so I'm gonna I'll go first I guess and I'll let you go last with your list okay yeah and now
I've ranked mine like one to ten and I'm gonna start at number ten it doesn't matter if you
didn't rank yours or not it doesn't matter but that's what I did so number ten I have a female
singer from Toronto called Lee Erin and the reason I have her on my list is because when I was in
high school I had a poster over on my locker in high school oh so cute and she had an album called
metal queen and even though she was this was of course back in what year was that that was
probably in the early 80s it wasn't very heavy but there wasn't many females in metal there was
girl school maybe and rock goddess another group runaways before that but there wasn't very many
females in metal yeah so it wasn't very heavy but anyway she was called a metal queen and she's
still going today she doesn't really sing metal but she sings rock hard rock or whatever so she's
still around so that's why she's my number ten number nine is another Canadian and her name is
Derby Mills and she was in a band called head pins and they only had three albums but their first two
albums I listened to it before I discovered heavy metal so it was hard rock even though it was just
as heavy as some of the hair metal that came after it but I loved her voice on those first two albums
so head pins Derby Mills from the head pins and my number eight is called Priya Panda who is also
a singer from Toronto but I think now she lives in California in the United States she was in a band
called diamonds that's D I E M O N D S not like the diamonds on your fingers and they were kind
of a hair metal band with an edge or whatever but I used to do photo shoots and I did a photo shoot
with her once so that's kind of why she's on my list too I mean they love her singing but I also
had fun that I got to do a photo shoot with now my number seven is well I couldn't have you on my
podcast and not have you on my list so my number seven is you awesome thank you so much what an
honor to be among you've only got one full album under your belt for singing so after you have a
few more you might go higher on my list oh now I now I have to step it up okay number six I got
Diva Satanica of Bloodhunter and also of the band How We End and she was formerly or she was on one
album with the band Nervosa from Brazil and I've known her for years so she's kind of on here just
because also I know her but I also love her she's just great screamer she's not really a growler she
just a screamer and number five I have Alyssa White-Blues from Arch Enemy and she is another
Canadian I got like five Canadians on my list actually she is from Montreal in Canada and of
course she's in Arch Enemy right now number four I have Brittany Slays who is from the Canadian band
I guess they're a power metal band I would call them Unleash the Archers from BC in Canada
and I don't know if you have you ever heard of Unleash the Archers yes I have okay yeah they've
been around a while and so that's my number four number three I have Angela Gossow who was in
Arch Enemy and she was like the first growler female growler I ever heard possibly you too
but she was and I interviewed her way back when I don't know 20 years ago or something on my
previous version of my website and she's the one that got me into extreme music because I never
really liked the death metal vocals until I heard Arch Enemy and then and I didn't even know it was
a girl I don't think but I really loved the guitars and the band and then I went oh that's a girl
singing yeah like many of us yeah awesome and my number two is from let's see the group where it's
Taylor Momsen of the Pretty Reckless now this is an heavy metal group even though they're pretty
heavy rock and of course she was in the the movie as a little girl in the movie The Grinch Stole
Christmas with Joe Carey but I love her voice I think she has such a great uh uh I can't think
of the word now but her voice is just great I think and and I don't mind listening to the songs
some of them are pretty good and my number one is I don't know if you know this band a band called
What's Human and the singer is Lauren Hart and it's actually on the day we're recording it it's
her birthday today you know she won't be listening and it won't be this podcast will be posted a
couple days later but it just happens to be her birthday as we're talking and I've known her for
a while and we're kind of friendly friends and once they are working on a new album so hopefully
this year we'll have a once human album and she's definitely a screamer too and there's my list
Wow amazing and happy birthday to her she's amazing amazing women and some of them are also on my list
so I think your list was amazing thank you so let's hear your list now
My list they are not in particular order but I have to say we agreed that we are doing
10 women yes yes and I have female metal women in my list but as a bonus I have to say
that this woman he she doesn't do metal but she's amazing she has a song called Heavy Metal Lover
and she has these cool riffs on her music although it's pop but she's a very good singer and composer
amazing woman and she is Lady Gaga okay yes yeah and although she doesn't do metal
I played her album to our guitarist Topi and Topi was like I don't like pop music I don't want to
hear it and we were driving and I said please listen to it and then he listened to it and he
was very surprised that there were these cool guitar riffs that she uses and she uses a band
nowadays and he was impressed so she has a bit of those metal vibes to her I think she I think she
is a heavy metal fan if I'm not mistaken she played with Metallica I think at some awards show like
maybe the Grammys one year I can't remember and I think I've seen her wearing an Erin Maiden shirt
and I think she actually wore it on a talk show once and yes I think she really just liked them
stuff but yes so that's interesting okay definitely and she is bringing something metal
into pop music yeah so I think it's a good thing yes metal but then to my list I have here
Vicky White from the Agonist I think she's amazing vocalist she's versatile she's amazing screamer
and growler unfortunately the Agonist quit I think it was a big what's the word loss big loss to her
loss to metal I love her and also her personality she's a great person I actually have a picture of
her and me and her together because I interviewed her once outside a club in Ontario Canada here
I'll have to find a picture and send it to you awesome that's cute and then I have Amy Lee here
from Evanescence she has been at that what's the word promoter promoter for metal she has won Grammys
and she's a beautiful woman beautiful voice beautiful person I like her yes and then I have
Warlock Queen Doro here she's one of those original queens and she has also made solo career
she's amazing woman and there are so many women I would like to put on this list I also thought
about Taylor Momsen but not everyone can because there has to be only 10 then I have Simone Simons
from Epica she's a Dutch amazing woman she always looks so elegant and she's a powerhouse vocalist
I love her and then I have some Finnish ladies because you promoted Canadian ladies so now
as a Finnish person I have to shout out to my Finnish babes Noora Louhimo from Battle Beast
do you know her yes she's amazing she has this rock and roll in her voice it's very powerful she
has this rock and roll rasp in her voice and then I have of course Tarja Turunen Nightwish original
vocalist because I was a child when I heard Nightwish and Tarja was the vocalist her opera singing
was amazing there was nothing like that and then I have Nightwish Florian Sen who is doing amazing
job she's amazing she can do anything with her voice she also growls not in Nightwish but she
can growl yes and I think she finally deserves this success that she has got with Nightwish because
she has been doing vocals for so long and she's amazing and a nice person amazing woman and a mother
yes so those were my Finnish ladies and then I have of course Canadian Alissa White Glutes
she's amazing she has a risen arch enemy to a wider crowd I think she's a real queen
and she also promotes good things like animal rights and vegan stuff and I love her voice
there's something it's very like powerful and brutal but still there's something soft
softness in her voice so it's awesome and then of course I have Ginger Tatiana
she has this amazing like blues sexy clean voice where you could be in a bar piano piano bar
you know sipping drinks and she would she would do this smoky sexy voice thing and then when she
growls I was like what she's amazing I actually read somewhere that when she started to growl
she growled in a pillow so she could practice because when you growl like this it's too noisy
but when she growled in a pillow the neighbors wouldn't be so mad at her so I think that might
have gotten her growl so powerful because when you have to growl in a pillow it takes a lot of
takes a lot of air and power so maybe I should try that also and then I have of course Angela
Gosso the queen I didn't know women can do stuff like this before I heard her and she's amazing
she's very her presence stage presence is also very powerful and her voice is amazing she has
paved a way for women yes she's the reason I growl her and Alice are both amazing and
amazing and in their own way kind of the same but a little bit different and then I have I
said 10 names but the last bonus name is spirit box Courtney Laplante she has paved the way also
for metal and she does this cool clean stuff and then this deathcore stuff which I have found
deathcore also I'm into it I'm into deathcore vocals she does amazing stuff with that and she did
song with Megan the stallion the rapper so she's putting together metal and rap
as a woman and I know some people don't like it but I think it's good for metal we need to
metal over the world you know yes yeah I love her amazing ladies all of them that's great
that's a good list and I knew I was worried I wouldn't know many of them but I know most of them
I think I mean spirit box I maybe haven't listened to them before but I think I know everyone else
that you mentioned so that's good yay cool because I know I'm not much into the symphonic
metal I guess like your nightwishes but of course I obviously know about them and stuff like that
of course yeah is Finland's maybe most biggest band metal band yes yes okay that's great and so I guess
that's about it we were at about an hour I think since we started so that's good is there anything
I do thank you very much for joining me on the podcast it was very fun to have a singer on
because I guess you're the well I've had a diva on before and I had another female singer but it was
nice to get your views on Bruce Dickinson who's a pretty good singer too and yeah he's amazing and
thank you so much for having me this was such an honor and if you listen to my Finnish rally
English for an hour you deserve a medal so thank you so much I had fun thank you well thank you
for joining me now if you're so make sure if you're listening to this podcast share it if you can
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