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Power Reset is the solo project of Manaus-based bassist, vocalist, and composer Leonardo Oliveira, who channels 1980s and 90s power metal into a symphonic, melodically driven sound with strong technical guitar work. Oliveira has moved quickly, releasing three albums — "My Perfect World" (2020), "Dungeon Master" (2021), and "Son of the Light" (2023) — entirely independently, with the last receiving international distribution including a Japanese edition.
A 2023 thrash-groove metal project from the La Mancha town of Quintanar de la Orden, Prypiat Metal takes nuclear-disaster imagery and channels it through the wind-swept Castilian plateau. Their Cervantes-country origins add literary weight to their aggressive sound.
Power metal band from Luhansk, Ukraine, formed in 2017, delivering epic power metal from the embattled eastern Ukrainian city. They bring heroic tales through anthemic metal.
One of Denmark's more obscure black metal entities, Putrifixion has been lurking in the underground since 1995, making them a genuinely early-wave Scandinavian black metal project. Their three decades of activity — much of it shrouded in anonymity — speak to a commitment beyond trend-chasing.
Named after the psychoactive mushroom genus, Laudio's Psilocybe has been dispensing thrash metal with hallucinatory intensity since 2016. Their Basque Country setting connects them to Álava's underground scene, where extreme music thrives in small but passionate communities.
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.
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.
Wipperfürth's Powerslave has been channeling the spirit of classic power metal since 2019, their Maiden-referencing name establishing their lineage immediately. Their Bergisches Land origins place them in the hilly countryside east of Cologne.
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.
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