RAREPEACE

Just like their songs, TOOL’s album covers are a whole trip, you don’t just look at them, you enter them.
Optical illusions, anatomy diagrams, and occult geometry that make you stare longer than you planned... then press play and disappear.

1. Undertow (1993)
2. Anima (1996)
3. Lateralus (2001)
4. 10,000 Days (2006)
5. Fear Inoculum (2019)

Seeing Miss World Chile 2025 Ignacia Fernández step onto the Miss World stage and openly claim her identity as a metalhead when performing a death metal track filled with growls and screams from her band Decessus — hit deeper than I expected. Not because metalhead women need validation, but because we so rarely receive it.

As girls, we’re often taught how to listen, how to look, how to soften our edges. And when you grow up loving extreme music — growls, blast beats, distortion — you quickly learn that it doesn’t fit the version of femininity people are comfortable with.

Even in so-called open-minded spaces and communities, I’ve witnessed the looks, the jokes, the disbelief. The subtle judgment disguised as curiosity. At some point, you start choosing when to stay quiet about what you love — not because you’re unsure, but because you’re tired of being perceived as quirky, weird, or “too much.”

That’s why seeing someone embrace metal on a global stage — and be celebrated for who she really is, even through surprise and shock — feels like a win. A reminder. A crack in the narrative.
These women I want to introduce you to, the ones who paved the way and the ones rising now — didn’t ask for permission to scream, growl, or take up space. They just did.

Everyone is open-minded until they’re not. People will judge you anyway so be who you are cause life is too short. This one’s for all the metalhead, punk and goth alternative girls who never fit the mold — and never should. 🖤🤘🏽

1. Decessus - The Eve Of Severed Tongues
2. Scowl - Shot Down
3. Spiritbox - Rule Of Nines (Courtney Laplante live onetake performance)
4. Crypta - The Other Side Of Anger
5. The Distillers - Drain The Blood
6. Kittie - Charlotte
7. Arch Enemy - Nemesis
8. Jinjer - Pisces
9. The Anchor - Masterpiece
10. Otep - Warhead