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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
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Long Island's To the Pain have been combining power metal's anthemic ambition with thrash's velocity since 2013, a Franklin Square act that keeps the classic twin-guitar attack alive with speed and melodic muscle in equal measure.
Toad in Transit is a symphonic/progressive power metal/rock band from Saarbrücken, Germany, active since 2008. They combine symphonic grandeur with progressive power metal's technical ambition.
Port St. Lucie's Tock have been mixing power metal's melodic firepower with thrash's aggression and alternative metal's hooks since 2012, a Florida act that keeps things energetic and genre-fluid without losing sight of the riff.
Spokane, Washington's Tomb Ripper occupy an unusual corner of extreme metal, splicing death metal and powerviolence together to create chaotic, high-intensity material that has no patience for slow moments.
Torrax bring power metal from the medieval silver-mining city of Kutná Hora, pairing epic melodies and soaring vocals with driving metal power since 2019. The historic grandeur of their UNESCO-listed hometown finds a sonic parallel in their ambitious, larger-than-life compositions.
Long-running power metal act Total Eclipse have been delivering anthemic, melody-driven metal since 1999, operating in the tradition of European-influenced power metal with a focus on soaring vocals and galloping guitar work.
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania's Totentanz play technical power/speed metal with a precision-focused approach, drawing on the intricate guitar work and propulsive tempos of the genre's most demanding practitioners since their 2018 formation.
San Bernardino's Tower Guard, active since 2021, fuse the melodic sweep of Gothenburg-style death metal with the soaring choruses and compositional ambition of power metal, crafting a sound that is simultaneously aggressive and anthemic.
Boston's Tower of Babel, formed in 2014, work in the tradition of epic heavy and power metal, delivering the kind of larger-than-life riffs and anthemic songwriting that has defined the genre's most theatrical wing.
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