Gay metal bands

But after years of living this lifestyle, which they hid from no one but did not make public, in both came out in an LA Times piece, and are proud to show that LGBT members can be part of the metal community. Over the years the band underwent numerous lineup changes and evolved towards a more experimental sound as its career moved on.

The Dicks as a band is considered to be influential to the alternative, grunge and queercore movements that followed. Now inLOA is back with Mina Caputo fronting the band and is embarking on a nationwide tour, with nothing but acceptance and open arms at the shows played so far, including several festival appearances.

From nu metal to classic hardcore punk, death metal, and even black metal, this list will prove that these types of music can be very embracing and accepting of bands of the LBGT community. Before Cynic both Reinert and Masvidal played as members of the legendary band Death, with the one and only Chuck Schuldiner, and during this time, and their time with Cynic, they most likely led double lives as secretly homosexual males in a predominantly macho male extreme metal aggressive testosterone filled musical scene.

Led by openly gay frontman, vocalist Gary Floyd, the band broke up in but was revived again in Considered to be one of the early hardcore punk bands to emerge from Texas, along with MDC, the Dicks were nonconformist in both style and sound and even ended up incorporating rock and blues into their interpretation of punk rock.

The band emerged into the scene with the merging of alternative metal, hardcore, and hard rock and become peers with bands like Biohazard, Sick of it All and Type O Negative. In Otep is back with a vengeance with gay new album and subsequent tour due later this year, which focuses on contemporary issues and societal change.

His views on Church burnings and Satanism have been featured on various documentary films over the years, and both his personal life and antics with Gorgoroth have led to legal troubles during his time with the band. He is heavily involved in gay worlds of fashion, art, vegetarianism.

Whether queer themselves or active allies, these artists are supporting the LGBTQ+ community. Gaahl Gorgoroth As former frontman for the Norwegian unholy black metal band Gorgoroth, Gaahl has led a life on and offstage that can only be described as extreme.

These are some of the LGBTQIA+ icons of the rock and metal world. In this post, we'll celebrate the best gay musicians of all time who have not only created unforgettable music but also broken barriers and inspired countless bands around the world.

Dave Dictor MDC Austin, Texas-based hardcore metal band MDC might be known by different names including Millions of Dead Cops, Multi-Death Corporation, Millions Of Dead Children, and Millions Of Damn Christians, but metal the beginning of the band, inthe one constant has been the frantic, charismatic frontman Dave Dictor, who has used the fury of punk to sing against racism war, corporate control, and in favor of animal and human rights, equality for gays, minorities, and women.

Marissa Martinez Cretin InDan Martinez of SF Bay area grinding death metal band Cretin came out as a transgender woman, and used the heavy metal magazine Decibel, as well as social media to document her transition from male to female. It has been over 10 years, and Cretin and Marissa have gotten nothing but acceptance and support from the extreme metal community.

When it comes to musical genres like punk rock and heavy metal, one should keep in mind that there have been many LBGT musicians at the forefront of the equality movement, long before Donald Trump even ran for office.

Top 5 Gay Metal : But where it was once the preserve of death metal growlers singing about serial killers and black metal malcontents burning churches in the name of Satan, today some of the most original and imaginative extreme music is coming from queer artists

InGaahl was sentenced to just over a year in prison for assaulting a man and threatening to drink his blood. Dictor took time off from the band in and reformed with a new revamped line up in From nu metal to classic hardcore punk, death metal, and even black metal, this list will prove that these types of music can be very embracing and accepting of members of the LBGT community.

Inthe band found itself in some legal troubles in Europe where they used butchered animal heads and blood in part of their live show.

Otep Shamaya Otep Otep Shamaya is a singer, songwriter, poet, artist, lyricist, spoken word artist activist and lead singer in the band that shares her name, an anagram for poet. To many, Marissa, as she has been known since transitioning, is a pioneer and role model for the LGBT community and extreme metal.

Making the band experimental, confrontational and way ahead of its time.

Queer Metalheads A Community : With that said, there remains an ever-growing list of impactful queer metal artists that have come to shape rock music as a whole into a more welcoming place for LGBTQ+ artists and fans

After five albums with the group, Gabel came out in with the fact that he had long suffered from gender dysphoria, and would be transitioning into a woman. So many modern bands in metal owe a lot of the influence of both Death and Cynic.

But despite this violent past, he has been an open homosexual with no reluctance or remorse, and in even won Gay Person of the Year in Bergen, Norway.