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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Head Cage (2018)
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Stormrazor is a heavy/power metal band from St. Louis, Missouri, formed in 2020, delivering energetic, melody-focused metal with the anthemic thrust of power metal.
Stormreaper is a traditional heavy metal band from Portland, Oregon, formed in 2015, playing straightforward, riff-driven metal in the classic mold of American and British heavy metal.
Stormreaver is an epic heavy metal band from Morgantown, West Virginia, formed in 2025, drawing from the grand, bombastic tradition of epic and US power metal.
Stormriders is a stoner/doom metal band from New York City, formed in 2024, blending the hazy, fuzz-drenched heaviness of stoner metal with the slow, crushing momentum of doom.
Storms Within is a heavy/groove metal band from Erie, Pennsylvania, formed in 2023, channeling the rhythmic drive and mid-paced punch of groove metal through a traditional heavy metal framework.
Stormtrooper is a heavy/power metal band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 2022, playing melodic, hard-driving metal with power metal ambitions and classic heavy metal foundations.
Stormtrooper is an epic heavy/power metal band from Queens, New York, formed in 2022, building on the tradition of grandiose, lyrically mythic power metal with a focus on epic song structures and soaring vocals.
Melodic hard rock and heavy metal band from the Tyrolean towns of Breitenbach am Inn and Wörgl, formed in 2014. Their sound marries classic heavy metal riffing with melodic hard rock sensibility, delivering hook-driven anthems from the heart of the Austrian Alps.
Stormwitch are a legendary German heavy/power metal band from Gerstetten in the Swabian Alps, part of the same 1980s generation that produced Accept, Helloween, and Running Wild. Their four-decade career has made them icons of the Teutonic heavy metal tradition.
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