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Coronary Reconstruction (EP) (2024)
Featured Heavy Metal Album
Agamemnon (2025)
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Featured Power Metal Album
Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
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El Paso thrash metal act Backblast formed around 2015 before going on hold, a border-city band channeling the aggressive energy of classic thrash from one of Texas's most underrepresented metal scenes.
German heavy/power metal band from Bamberg, formed in 2024. They bring a fresh take on the classic German heavy and power metal tradition that the country is renowned for.
Philadelphia power-violence and grindcore trio who describe their music as Eternal Microbursts of Electric Power, releasing a string of EPs and split 7-inches including records with Nimbus Terrifix and Chainsaw to the Face alongside albums such as Primordial Paranoia and Psychic Rot.
Albuquerque death metal, grindcore, and powerviolence band formed in 2020, named after the HTTP 502 error code and releasing brutal short-form material from the New Mexico underground.
Boston heavy and power metal band formed in 2013, combining muscular traditional metal riffs with the anthemic melodic sensibility of classic power metal.
Heavy and power metal band from Wangen an der Aare, Switzerland, formed in 2024. A new act bringing melodic power and heavy metal might from the Bernese Mittelland.
San Francisco power metal outfit with origins stretching back to 1983, operating under a previous name before adopting Bad Press — one of the Bay Area's longer-lived metal acts.
Spanish progressive/power metal band from Madrid, active since 2009. They blend progressive metal's complexity with power metal's anthemic melodies.
Power/thrash metal band from Belfast, active since 2012. Their releases including This Means War, Death of a Hero, and the Worldwide Genocide EP deliver hard-hitting Irish thrash with power metal ambition.
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