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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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Uncompromising traditional metal anchored by thrash, speed, and doom influences. Guest appearances from members of Manowar and Virgin Steele on their releases.
Witherfall was formed in Los Angeles, California in 2013 by vocalist Joseph Michael and guitarist Jake Dreyer, both veterans of White Wizzard, channeling dark progressive and power metal in the tradition of Queensrÿche and Fates Warning. Their 2017 debut Nocturnes and Requiems was shadowed by the death of original drummer Adam Sagan from lymphoma in December 2016, and the band's subsequent output — A Prelude to Sorrow (2018), The Curse of Autumn (2020), and Sounds of the Forgotten (2024) — has carried a thematic weight commensurate with that loss. They are regarded as one of the stronger acts in the modern progressive power metal revival.
Powerviolence, death metal, and hardcore band from Aschaffenburg, Germany formed in 2018 with a vegan ethos. Their releases from Demo 2018 through Holocene Extinction and Prevail in Absence channel environmental themes through a brutal fusion of extreme subgenres.
Power and thrash metal band from Cologne, Germany formed in 2017. Wolfen combines the melodic ambition of power metal with thrash's cutting edge, bringing dual-genre intensity to the Rhine region.
Power and heavy metal band from Helmstedt, Germany formed in 2022. Wolfs Moon forges traditional power and heavy metal in the German style, built on soaring melodies and driving rhythms.
Wooden Bridge is a progressive/folk power metal band from João Pessoa, Paraíba, featuring members Pablo Fonseca, Rodrigo Guimarães, Rodolfo Salgueiro, Victor Hugo Targino, and Marconi Júnior. The band released their debut album "Our Hearts, Our Lives" in August 2018, recorded at 1404 Studios in João Pessoa, blending fantasy-themed lyrics with layered melodic metal arrangements.
Los Angeles-based Worldview has been operating since 2002, developing a sound that weaves together the melodic ambition of power metal with the structural complexity of progressive metal. Two decades in, the band continues to pursue the cinematic, technically demanding territory that defines the best of the West Coast's prog-power contingent.
Melodic death and power metal band from Barcelona, Spain active since 2012. Worth combines the harmonic richness of power metal with melodic death metal's aggressive edge from the Catalonian capital.
New Bedford, Massachusetts's Wound Man fuse sludge metal's crushing weight with powerviolence's white-knuckle aggression, channeling the post-industrial decay of coastal New England into short, suffocating bursts of noise since 2013. The band's cross-genre approach makes each release feel like a trap door opening beneath you.
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