Hysterica

Other all-female metal bands play; these Swedes kill

"I had never listened to Manowar before we did this album. Of course, now I know them because people kept telling me we [are] like the female Manowar, but we don’t care.”

When you have five Swedish babes decked out in their finest, shiniest PVC minis, sporting thigh-high boots (better known in more passé circles as “fuck-me boots”), wielding an intimidating arsenal of spiky weaponry, striking full-body metal poses while throwing down NWOBHM-meets-sticky-pub-floor anthems like “Girls Made of Heavy Metal,” “Louder,” “The Bitch Is Back” and “Pain in the Ass” via Metalwar, their debut album, you can understand certain folks’ haste in climbing over themselves to label all-woman trad metal quintet Hysterica as “the female Manowar.” If for no other reason than because the collective metal world—both men and women, save select Greeks and Germans—are in need something beyond Eric Adams’ second-skin leather jumpsuit and Joey DeMaio’s ego crammed into furry short shorts as eye candy.

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