Book Review: Celebrating Women in Metal – Jill Hughes Kirtland

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Ann Boleyn, Betsy Bitch, Chastain, Doro Pesch, Dr. Mikannibal, Epica, female fronted metal, Girlschool, Hellion, Jill Hughes Kirtland, Leather Leone, Linda MacDonald, Lita Ford, Liv Kristine, Not Just Tits in a Corset: Celebrating Women in Metal, Phantom Blue, Sandy Sledge, Sigh, Simone Simons, The Runaways, third eye cinema podcast, Warlock, Zuberoa Aznarez

Only a chapter in and already I found myself with very mixed feelings.  You just know this isn’t going to end well…

On the one hand, as listeners to the podcast and followers of the website are doubtless well aware, I’ve had a lifelong appreciation for females in metal.

Week 58 (Sun. Aug. 4): Mirai and Dr. Mikannibal of Sigh

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avant garde, black metal, classical music, Deathlike Silence, Dr. Mikannibal, Euronymous, Frank Zappa, jazz fusion, Mika, Mirai Kawashima, progressive metal, Sigh, third eye cinema podcast

Next time on Third Eye Cinema (Sun. Aug. 4, 7pm EST/4pm PST): we present the most interesting couple in metal!

With a career reaching back as far as 1990, and with their first album gaining worldwide attention as both one of the first acts and one of the few records ever released under Euronymous’ Deathlike Silence label, this man has been at the forefront of the black metal scene!

As the first and most prominent of Japanese extreme metal bands, he and his bandmates pursued a musical path marked by an unusual diversity and determinedly unique sound, as syncretist and genre-bending as the late Frank Zappa!