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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Morpheus Gift is a power and thrash metal band from Stuttgart, Germany, formed in 2015. Their debut concept album Defiance Divine explores themes of resistance and divine conflict through atmospheric, melodic thrash metal compositions.
Seattle melodic black and power metal band Mors Navis, formed in 2021, fuse the melodic grandeur of power metal with the cold aggression of black metal, creating a sound that is simultaneously epic and grim. Their work sits at an ambitious intersection of two traditions that rarely meet so directly.
A heavy/power metal act from Mitilini on Lesbos, Mortal's Fate has been delivering epic, melodic compositions since 2022. The band brings power metal grandeur to the Aegean from one of Greece's most easterly islands.
Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania's Mortanius have been developing their progressive power metal since 2014, combining soaring melodic ambition with the technical depth and shifting structures of progressive metal.
Motto Perpetuo is a power metal band from the Barcelona area of Spain, active since 2009. They craft soaring power metal driven by melodic hooks and technical proficiency.
Cincinnati's Mournblade fuse the soaring hooks of power metal with the propulsive aggression of thrash, arriving on the scene in 2023 with an energetic attack that nods to classic US metal traditions.
Corona, California's Mourning Star specialize in epic doom metal of the grand, theatrical variety — slow-burning compositions built on massive riffs, dramatic pacing, and a sense of ancient, mythic weight.
Warren, Michigan's Mourning Sun have been delivering power metal with soaring ambition since 2015, channeling the genre's twin hallmarks of sky-high vocals and driving, melodic guitar work from the heart of the Great Lakes state.
Triumphant Heavy / Power Metal from Pasadena.
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