at us, you know, so there's has to be a little bit about us another when we're starting now with a rock you. okay. the, the move on when we get to the point where it's nothing special anymore to play metal, no matter you agenda. i think that's ultimately the big goal, and these us both of the actually the future of math 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.

heavy metal is for real men. 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's biggest heavy metal festival to take a closer look. the 1st bucket, 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 middle 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 x 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 push who performed is back 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 senior and i didn't even realize it myself. i felt so comfortable and i was always treated very, very nicely in mid 400. heavy metal emerged out of hard rock in the 19 seventy's 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 the black, massive 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 metal bands whose members were only women was girls founded in 1978 . they have to put up with a lot of sexist, common critics toward their outcomes apart, their career only really took off when the lead motorhead front, ma'am, let me kill mr. stood up for them. the great,

the people treat them like 2nd class persons because of the goals. it's really disgusting. the school are still around. they were and still are a frequent guest book, 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 though. i mean they'll punch you in the face. don't worry. i care whether it's sung by guy or lady or that it doesn't matter a toe or does it mean excessive in 1st play the 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 the other soul drawing. everything was just opened to us. we could just do what we wanted. it was just new. you are happy and of course it's a nice feeling to have started something for the scene to stop it. 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 growled to and it's 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 may not always come. 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 to log on to good.

there rosa is a 4 piece. all female thrash metal band. the 4 formed in brazil and 2010. no rosa can mean edgy or angry and particularly the bands aggressive appearance initially surprised people in their home country. yes of course there was a list 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 this is getting over the like, so used to i don't use the people because there's like faces, but these for women don't fulfill those cliches. so now versus beginnings were pretty difficult, but they persevered i think everything that he knew we faces some challenges. we know that the math though it's more male fee, you know, i've 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 give people that was talking like bad things. i was not be they should i say i don't care, i don't care. i have to listen. the critic stop it 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 min conservatives largely muslim majority countries in the middle east. many metal bands mail and miller likes to play underground news. british journalist orlando cro croft spent 6 years observing the metal scene in countries such as

egypt, syria, saudi arabia and iran. 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. rainy and bound, or psalm us, for example, fled 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 met on a he sees this as the main reason why a rainy and 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 feel for the rest and even having assets thrown on the face of bodies of women, cool, academics, and music lab and on is considered comparatively tolerance towards heavy metal. still, the scene is viewed with suspicion. the last may i see is the founder of the all female middle band sleeve to silence. 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 were thing that were not good enough or they were going to take us seriously as our menu are not specifically designed to play these instruments. some people outside of the month and wouldn't understand the sort of user, and they would curse us. they think that we're bad. and this is not lazy like to

them. playing by the, the women of slave to sirens now live in several countries. the less mioshi, however, has remained and live and on and leave 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 my, i see from slave to sirens come confirmed my task of something he said, so i was living all that. so much of music was i was giving me

a voice and it was even me, like like it isn't the, it was so powerful to me. and it's really, really it 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, most of them 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'll girls. a younger girls are coming and coming and coming, appearing every day, or discover new girls on nice the ground, you know, like the new resource that we have. so i see they are coming. so we get

a lot of young girls looking up to us and sending up messages like last time i wasn't friends, there's a girl who texted me and said like, i'm learning because of you. so that's really powerful and it's motivates me to move forward and keep pushing with, despite all the challenges that you're facing. and it serves 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 steam at us getting books, playing big stages. so once we get the, i see like yes, of course the future, steven, 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 this in the metal scene is still dominated by men, but young women are closing the gap and can 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 the 1st thing 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 find for the good, especially the women. they are rock at all we can see to.