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Masters of Morbidity (2022)
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No Grave But The Sea (Deluxe Edition) (2017)
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Liars & Thieves (2024)
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Rendsburg's Powerhead fuses heavy, power, and thrash metal into a triple-pronged assault from the Schleswig-Holstein countryside since 2016. Their Kiel Canal-adjacent base provides an appropriately industrial setting for their high-octane approach.
San Antonio's Powerhouse brings a Texas-sized drive to the intersection of thrash and traditional heavy metal, formed in 2018 with a sound that wears its influences on its sleeve without apology. The city has always had a scrappier, working-class relationship with metal compared to the coastal scenes, and Powerhouse channels that — direct riffs, forceful delivery, and none of the pretension that sometimes creeps into the genre. Think Bay Area thrash energy filtered through a South Texas toughness.
Bad Wörishofen's PowerSaint arrived in 2024 carrying the banner of Bavarian heavy and power metal with an almost devotional intensity. Their Swabian spa-town origins provide a serene counterpoint to their thunderous, fist-raising anthems.
Symphonic heavy metal band from Olawa and Wroclaw, Poland, formed in 2014, layering orchestral grandeur over classic heavy metal from Lower Silesia. Their name pays homage to the Iron Maiden classic.
Golden, Colorado sits in the foothills where the Rockies begin their real climb, and Powerslide's traditional heavy metal has that same feeling — grounded but straining upward, formed in 2017 with a clear love for the melodic, riff-forward approach of classic metal. They're not reinventing the form; they're executing it with conviction in a state where the mountains seem to demand something epic and unadorned. Clean vocals, driving rhythms, and a sturdy commitment to the craft define their sound.
A young Belgian power metal duo forged in 2019, Powerstone channels the dual-guitar attack and soaring melodies that defined the genre's late-'90s golden age. Their Wijnendale origins place them in West Flanders, far from Belgium's metal epicenters, lending an underdog energy to their anthemic sound.
Heavy metal band from Tilburg and Eindhoven, Netherlands, formed in 2020, delivering vice-grip heavy metal from the twin cities of North Brabant. They bring powerful, riff-driven metal to the Dutch underground.
Death metal turned heavy and doom metal band from Verkhnee Dubrovo, Russia, formed in 2019, evolving from death metal into heavier doom territory. They bring crushing weight from the Sverdlovsk Oblast.
Heavy metal band from Poland, formed in 2025, whose name means 'music box' in Polish. They bring freshly wound heavy metal to the Polish underground.
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