if you're watching dw news from brielle it up next arts and builds, takes a look at the history of women in the heavy metal music st. i'm terry martin being all of us. here's the definitely there's thanks for watching the there's a note just have a site just to make the right decision, dw, and you can follow the um yeah, i think we can call her self, but us, you know, so there's has to be a little bit about us the,

another one, we're starting now with a rocket the move on when we get to the point where it's nothing special and you move to play metal, no matter you agenda. i think that's ultimately the big goal was actually the future of met, that we, my opinion, belongs to the women, the loud guitars, aggressive baselines and guttural vocals. heavy metal is tough, music for tough guy is who head bang and drink beer.

the metal is for real men, the men who go at each other in the mosh pit and the women, they have no place here. for tuesday. the metal scene has long since opened up and become more diverse. women now play important roles in the middle community. that's fans. and as musicians we went to germany biggest heavy metal festival to take a closer look in the 1st block in the open air festival took place and 1990 with just 800 visitors and 6 pounds. what began as an idea to combat rural boredom? developed into one of the biggest metal festivals in the world, attracting more than $80000.00 visitors within just a few years. in 1991 band with

a female lead singer took to the stage here acts and the band from cuba came back again. and again in the following years, a few years later they were joined by middle icon. the whole parish who performed is locked in for the 1st time in 1993. yes, the learned that many women maybe a handful, but for me was quite natural. so i was one of the band. i was the singer and i didn't even realize it myself. i felt so comfortable and i was always treated very, very nicely. mid 100. heavy metal emerged out of hard rock in the 1970s, with fans like deep purple, led zeppelin and black sabbath. the scene was clearly male dominated. this had a lot to do with the perception of roles. metal has always been seen as hard, aggressive and loud. not exactly the stereotypical female characteristics. and yet women were there right from the start.

the james dawson, who founded the us, found covered in 1969 is considered one of the 1st occultism in black masses staged by a woman who described herself as a witch. that was hard stuff at a time when the hippies were still celebrating peace and flower power. one of the 1st middletown susan members were only women was girls founded in 1978. they have to put up with a lot of sexist comments critics toward their outbound support. their career only really took off when the late motorhead front, ma'am, let me kill mr. stood up for them. the great, the people treat them like 2nd cost passes because that goes it's really disgusting

. the school are still around. they were and still are frequent guests back. an open air and their friends with festival boss, tomas, the, and the growth. my work for go school for a long time, go school, which is actually a go band. so i mean they'll punch you in the face. don't worry. i can tell whether it's sung by guy or lady, or it doesn't matter. i told them, or dr. is abena class and 1st played a fucking open air in 2001. she's been involved in the middle scene since 1980 was her band. holy moses on sundays has gotten to john about this whole drawing. everything was just opened to us. we could just do what we wanted. it was just new . you're happy and of course it's a nice feeling to have started something for the senior started. so how the crossing is regarded as the very 1st

growling and extreme woman in middle, her band members call her the mother of all ground. it is an honor, i have to say that people say hazel bina, we found out that you were the 1st woman in the world to do these blades and growth . and i didn't plan it. it's what came out of me. it always comes, it's no normal for middle women to grow, show and roar. it's not a question of gender, but of technique. both women and man have to train their diaphragm and vocal chords to produce such sounds. wow, it's a log on. i was good there. rosa is a 4 piece all female thrash metal band before formed in brazil and 2010 novo,

so can mean edgy or angry. and particularly the bands aggressive appearance initially surprised people in their home country. yes of course there was a lot of the press this, you know, like i look for things that the people think that the all the brazilian women's are always naked because it's a scan of all the like. so you see, i don't get the people because there's like faces the piece for women don't fulfill those cliches. so now versus beginnings were pretty difficult, but they persevered. i think everything that he knew we facing some challenge. we know that the math though it's more male thing, you know, i particularly never pay up station so much. i was just wants to do what i love for what i dream, you know, and i was surrounding by persons that it was helping and supporting me. those ducks

keep people that was talking like bad things. i was not fayette, they should. i say i don't care, i don't care. i have to listen the critic stuff to be bad or of course to grow. but i feel like everything is possible. i feel metal musicians are not afforded those freedoms everywhere in other regions of the world, they have to fear for their lives because of their passion for metal. the conservatives largely muslim majority countries in the middle east, many middle pounds, mail and, and i like to play underground. british journalist orlando. cro croft spent 6 years observing the metal seen in countries such as egypt, syria, saudi arabia and the ron. and he wrote the book rock in

a hard place about musicians have told him that they sometimes face draconian punishments from imprisonment, floggings and paintings to the death penalty it raining and found or saw mass, for example, flood abroad due to the threat of a prison sentence the raj on, sorry, seniors a band master is person was flocked for alleged satanism. the when a big lunar says castillo, this is no judge. they don't need to know they will kill you. ansari's band made on a heed, was also in danger. women are not allowed to sing in public in iran. the reason given is that women singing supposedly provoke sexual desire in man. on a heed sees this as the main reason why uranian women are not so active in music, especially in heavy metal and rock together with. i'm sorry,

she left the country in 2012. there was the field for the rest and even having assets thrown on the face of bodies of women, court, academics, and music lab and on is considered comparatively tolerance towards heavy metal. still, the scene is viewed with suspicion. last night i see is the founder of the all female middle band sleeved assignments. it took the guitar is more than a year to find all the musicians for her band. and then the women had to assert themselves. in certain cases, some guys would thing that were not good enough or they were going to take us seriously. as our menu are not physically, kids are going to play these instruments, some people outside of the month and wouldn't understand the sort of music and they would curse us. they think that we're bad and this is not ladylike to them.

playing by the, the women of slave to sirens, now live in several countries. the less my lc, however, has remained and live and on and leads the band from there, the middle can give emotional support and make you strong. i grew up with it and also just like the only music i can really become when the listen to it does, it doesn't matter how, how heavy it is or how, how loud i'm just really come inside and listen to it. another study found that middle can help young people through difficult times the last mile see from slave to siren's come confirmed. my task of somebody said so i was doing all that. so much of music was i was giving a voice and it was giving me like,

like it isn't the, it was so far for me. and it's really, really helped me get up in the morning and just go. so yeah, most of the music gave me a lot. i mean, i think with us to use it. i don't think i'm the honestly, the, in the meantime, women have gained a powerful partner. the internet, women who position themselves successfully online can be role models with our internet presence. female bands are also making sure that others can be more daring . so then you just ration. then you guys are younger, girls are coming in and coming and coming, appearing every day or discover new girls on needs to grow, you know, like the new resource that we have. so i see they are coming. so we get to a lot of young girls looking up to us and sending up messages like last time i was

in friends, there's a girl who texted me and said like, i'm learning the thought because of you. so that's really powerful and it's motivates me to move for and keep pushing with, despite all the challenges that you're facing. and it says possibility as well. because as an all the various responsibilities as female fronted bands become more visible, online fans want to see them on the big stages. the goal is to see more human apps guessing books, playing big stages. so once we get there, i see like yes, of course, the future event, especially the, the leaders and the industry like behind the scenes, the organizers of looking ations, this power for women who are bringing things together and buying this entire

community. so yeah, definitely in the future this of most of the the metal scene is still dominated by men, but young women are closing the gap and can't be stopped. being female is no longer an obstacle in the heavy middle. see the best example. double push, who's been part of it for, for decades now and we have a song that's the 1st thing we called time for justice and we chose it because i think it's very, very important worldwide. because in many countries, women in particular are not allowed to move freely. it's all and the music we make is mobile out there either. so there's still a lot a lot to do and yes, we'll keep fighting. we'll fight for the good, especially the women. they are rock at all. we can see each other, we can support that each other. and the i see actually the future off the math that

we, my opinion belongs to the women. the german scientists have made an amazing discovery. just seeing someone sneeze or cough triggers an alarm in our brain. our immune system jumps into action and anti bodies rush to fight off viruses and bacteria to protect our airwaves. let's find out more about breathing and our loans. the sight of mountain family caught a bug that had them coughing for weeks. lisa is on a mission to quit smoking and who has lung cancer, even though she's never smoked. all that in more on this edition of in good shape.