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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Serpent & Spirit (2021)
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Middletown's Sleepy Hollow deal in classic heavy and power metal with a sound shaped by the genre's foundational era, having been active since 1992. Their work reflects the anthemic, riff-forward approach that drove American power metal before the genre's later stylistic proliferation.
Smite the Sun is a New Jersey power metal band formed in 2021, channeling the soaring melodies, twin guitar harmonies, and anthemic songwriting central to the American power metal tradition.
Smokescreen is a progressive heavy and power metal band from Pelham Manor, New York, formed in 2025, combining soaring melodic power metal songwriting with progressive metal's structural complexity and technical ambition.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania heavy and power metal band formed in 2015, combining muscular riffing with melodic hooks in the classic American power metal tradition.
Bayonne, New Jersey speed and power metal band formed in 2009, evolving from classic heavy metal roots toward a harder-hitting thrash and speed metal sound over their career.
Sobibor was a heavy metal band from Wilde, Buenos Aires, Argentina that released the album "Furia y metal" and the subsequent album "Misantropía" (2012), the latter recorded and mixed in Bogotá, Colombia between February and June of that year. The band cultivated a raw, aggressive sound that led them to be dubbed "ruido primitivo sudamericano" (South American primitive noise), a description they eventually embraced as part of their identity before splitting up.
Solamnia deliver symphonic power metal from Kouvola, drawing their name from the Dragonlance fantasy setting. Active since 2014, they bring Krynn-inspired grandeur to the southeastern Finnish power metal scene.
Moscow's Solar Crown explore progressive power metal from the Russian capital since 2014. Their radiant-coronation name channels the blazing authority of the sun into compositions that merge progressive ambition with anthemic power.
Solar Flare is a heavy and power metal band from Amelia, Ohio, formed in 2010, delivering melodic, guitar-driven material with an emphasis on soaring hooks and traditional metal structures rooted in the Midwest hard rock scene.
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