the Top 40 Female Artists of All Time : 40 to 31

In 2020 we are making a bigger deal out of how wet the nether regions are rather than the quaity of music being made. Granted the people doing this must have never heard of Lil Kim. This also gives me the chance to take  break from the lists of androgynous guys and  makes this one.The top 40 hottest female artists, might come one day  I am bored at some point but right now we are just focusing on the music. After all if you are writing good songs that stick in my head I do not care what you look like. You are not going to see artists here that I feel are covered by those who do what they do better or are such originators in their genre why listen to imitators. Not only does this list give commonly under rated artists their proper place, but I dig into as expected from me both harder and darker artists not mentioned in the same breath as pop artists. Speaking of that is covered by a handful of ladies as more would be redundant. There is one big one here in particular that takes care of everything . Only one rapper, and they are unique , and this is about their impact on music as a whole so iconoclasts not strippers with prodiucers or entertainers alone. Since this the Abysmal Hymns list there will of course be a darker slant and singer's with any gospel leanings that are blasphemous are obviously disqualified. So here we go...



40-Dawn Crosby -Fear of God


She fronted a metal harder than those that came before her like Warlock or the Great Kat actually using harsh vocals before Arch Enemy was a thing. The pain she emoted was very real as Dawn took her own life.


 

39-Bleached

 Poppy punk with out being pop punk. Their sound has evolved as they matured as song writers. Hopefully their next abum finds them getting at least the indie folowing they deserve.

 

38. St. Vincent 

 She can mimic the wack guitar sounds from Bowie's Scary Monsters album and bend them into her own unconvetional take on rock from mars.


 


37-Julie Christmas


From bands she has fronted to her collaborations with the ikes of Cult of Luna Christmas, continues to do her oewn thing and take hard rock in unconventional new directions.




36- Kayrn Crisis


Another distinct voice in metal. She edged out Dawn Crosby as she has gone to to more prolific body of work and expanded her range.  From Crisis to the Gospel of Witches she marries the unsettling to the beautiful.



35- Ash Costello


A wonderful blend of a pop sense of melody and rock power. Not ony with her band but her gothy side project Haxans which might have sounded like a Katy Perry Halloween album but was catchy as hell.

 


34- Diamanda Galas

If I was going to sum up Galas in one sentence it would be ...the gospel of the goth Yoko Ono. There is no need for any other female bringer of weirdmess who cam after her.




33- Lydia Ainsworth


Here is an artist who will hopefully get here due one day. Her album "Darling of the Afterglow" was a masterpiece and she does more with indie pop sound than almost any one , along with a rich voice.

 


32-Yolandi Visser -Die Antwoord

Yolandi is the only rapper on here, though I was tempted to also include Snow tha Product, Yolandi beat her out because she has a more original style to her flow. With hip hop it's easy to conform to an expected sound and she gives that the middle finger.

 

31- Farida Lemochi -the Devils Blood

The whole vest metal scene sprang up for a minute a decade ago with female singers. Farida was head and shoulders above most in that scene with a voice that held power and sould.

 

Karyn Crisis ' Gospel of Witches -"Covenant"

I sat on  this album for a while . I like it just busy with doom and now end of the year stuff.  If you are just tuning in and do not understand why I am fascinated with her well it is because she used to be in a band called Crisis that I used to love from the 90s . Marginally darker than the first album perhaps. I like how the vocals are balanced between her singing and the more growling voice she uses. The opener is pretty hypnotic. I am going to guess Charlie Schmid from Tombs is playing drums on this and the dude from Ephel Duath is playing every thing else. There is a little more of a rock feel to Drawing Down the Moon" that wanders off into it's own atmosphere. the guitars do not always adhere to what is expected from melodic creating and oddly melodic dissonance. How these sounds work is contingent on here vocals. sees her more aggressive grunt from her chest register on " Silver Valley" but at a minute and a half it is more of an interlude than a song.

 "Great Mothers" gets heavier with sonic tension and Karyn growling more.  There is more of a lingering hesitation to "Benevento". Lyrically this album is more focused on witchcraft. "Dea iside" has a more slither tension to it's groove that got my attention. "Janara" starts off as one of the heavier moments and then wanders off into more atmospheric paths . The album begins to simmer in it's own pondering. It's pretty music , but much like the new Tool album the prog of it does not hold , your ear as it is so introspective it finds you look back into it wondering what is going on. Much like that last sentence. Unlike Tool this is not going on for over ten minutes so easier to take . In terms of prog this is more on the A Perfect Circle side of the equation .  "Diana Mellifca "  has guitars have more to grab onto and the song finds it's groove for her vocals to settle upon. It's actually one of the albums better songs. It is also clear by this point in the album she is not just throwing occult terms around but knows what she is talking about.

"the Circle Of White Light" ditty feels like it is more of an intro for "Blood of the Mother" that comes after it rather than a song with it's own two legs. Even this song builds the tension with out giving the kind of pay off you expect from metal. Even then I think what turns the tide and makes me round this up to a 9 is the fact I can leave this album on and let it play which goes a long way in my book.