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Coronary Reconstruction (EP) (2024)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
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Atlanta's Levitation soar through progressive power metal with a Southern confidence, pairing intricate arrangements and dynamic shifts with the kind of clean vocal muscle that fills Georgia arenas.
Stamford, Connecticut's Liege Lord are one of the East Coast's finest power and speed metal artifacts, sharpening their twin-guitar attack since 1987 into a body of work that still cleaves clean.
Hungarian progressive/power metal band from Debrecen, blending technical ambition with anthemic melodies since 2015. Their approach channels the best of both genres through sophisticated arrangements.
Lightyears is a heavy/speed/power metal band from Anápolis, Goiás, Brazil, operating as an unsigned independent act. The band made a compilation appearance with the track "The Black Ritual of War" on the Underground Produções release "Underground Attack Vol. 01", documenting their presence in the Brazilian underground metal circuit. Their lyrical themes center on war, metal, and conflict.
Italian power metal band from Bergamo, delivering epic, soaring anthems since 2017. Their feline name channels the lion's regal power through classic European power metal traditions.
German power metal band from Berlin, forging epic, melodic anthems since 2017. Their sound channels the European power metal tradition through soaring vocals, galloping rhythms, and triumphant guitar harmonies.
Milwaukee's Liquid Steele bring a blue-collar toughness to power metal, pairing soaring hooks with muscle and a knack for anthemic, hard-hitting songcraft.
Lizzy Borden is a Los Angeles heavy metal band formed in 1983 by vocalist Gregory Charles Harges, who performs and records under the band's name, and drummer Joey Scott. Rooted in the shock rock theatrics of Alice Cooper and Kiss, the band signed to Metal Blade Records in 1984 and released a string of albums through the late 1980s, reaching their commercial peak with Visual Lies (1987). After a prolonged hiatus, Lizzy Borden returned with My Midnight Things (2018), their first album in eleven years, which charted on the Billboard 200.
South San Francisco's Lokheira arrived in 2023 with a power metal sound built on soaring vocals, galloping rhythms, and the wide-open ambition of the Bay Area's metal tradition.
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