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Female Stigma - Where Angels Fall

Music Video | Norway | 2007

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Synopsis

The five-minute clip presents "Female Stigma" as a dark, theatrical music short rooted in Where Angels Fall's gothic and symphonic-metal aesthetic. Eirin Bendigtsen appears with the band in a severe, atmospheric setting, while the song's imagery and performance emphasize themes of female inequality and the pressure to conform within a male-dominated society. Rather than following a separate, clearly documented storyline, the video works as a compact visual statement built around mood, intensity, and the song's feminist perspective.

Factoids & Trivia

  • "Female Stigma" was made available online in May 2007, with the video also listed as premiering on June 6, 2007.
  • The production is credited to Phantasm Films Ltd. and runs for approximately five minutes.
  • The video was produced in Norway and features members of Where Angels Fall, including vocalist Eirin Bendigtsen and guitarist Andre Bendigtsen.
  • The song later appeared on the band's second full-length album, "Marionettes," released in 2008. It is listed as the album's closing track and has a running time of 5:06.
  • At the time the video was released, Where Angels Fall was looking for a new label after separating from Edgerunner Music. Their debut album, "Illuminate," had been issued by Edgerunner in 2006.
  • "Female Stigma" has been described in later coverage of the band as a song about female inequality and the pressure to fit into a male-dominated social order, making it one of the more explicitly feminist pieces in the band's catalog.
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