# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jo-bench
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:51:17.420Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jo-bench"
name: "Jo Bench"
slug: "jo-bench"
description: "Jo-Anne Bench is a British musician from Leamington Spa, who is best known as the bassist for Bolt Thrower. She has performed on all of the band's albums, but not on any of their demos. Noted for being one of the first women in the extreme metal genre, Bench has been influential to a number of other female musicians in the genre."
tagline: "British musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tuska_20130628_-_Bolt_Thrower_-_18.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
livingStatus: "UNKNOWN"
scores:
  popularity:           48.33
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.494644000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/404644"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%88_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AA%D8%B4"
    title: "چو بينتش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo_Bench"
    title: "Jo Bench"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo_Bench"
    title: "Jo Bench"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo_Bench"
    title: "Jo Bench"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%99%E3%83%B3%E3%83%81"
    title: "ジョー・ベンチ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo_Bench"
    title: "Jo Bench"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo_Bench"
    title: "Jo Bench"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo_Bench"
    title: "Jo Bench"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88_%D8%A8%D9%86%DA%86"
    title: "جو بنچ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/5cc463d9-0491-4a38-b601-83e409718c08"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2336319"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump