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Metal Genocide is a Santiago-based speed metal trio drawing on the old-school ferocity of Razor and Running Wild, with members carrying backgrounds in Chilean acts Impact, Battlerage, and Steelrage. Their debut album Speed and Genocide, recorded at Fullrock Studios in Santiago, was released in 2013 through Rawforce Productions and set the template for the band's uncompromising, pro-true-metal stance.
Formed in Montreal, Quebec in 2003, Metalian play traditional heavy metal and speed metal in the lineage of Judas Priest and Iron Maiden, earning comparisons to the Canadian Judas Priest within the country's new wave of classic metal. The band released a series of albums including Beyond the Wall (2022) and built a following on the strength of their devotion to straightforward, riff-driven songwriting. They remain one of the earlier Canadian bands to commit fully to reviving the classic heavy metal sound.
Metalium is a power/speed metal act from Hamburg, one of Germany's veteran metal bands dating back to 1990. The band has delivered decades of high-velocity, melodic metal from Germany's northern port city.
Salem, Ohio's Metalourd have been refining a speed and thrash metal attack since 2014, drawing from the genre's most adrenaline-fueled traditions — fast picking, aggressive tempos, and riffs built for maximum impact. The band fits squarely within the American underground speed/thrash tradition that stretches back through the 1980s, updated with a modern independent sensibility.
Queens-bred MetalStorm channel the raw fury of the 1980s Bay Area and German speed metal scenes with a ferocity that has sharpened considerably since their 2014 formation. Their thrash riffs are tight and unrelenting, built for the pit, with tempos that rarely let up and vocals that cut through the noise like a serrated blade. They represent the continuing vitality of New York's underground extreme metal community.
Chicago's Metalusafer forge a high-octane fusion of classic heavy metal and speed metal that wears its influences — think early Judas Priest and Exciter — without apology. Formed in 2014, the band delivers driving rhythms and twin-guitar interplay that pays homage to the late 1970s and early 1980s metal that first put the genre on the map. They are part of a broader Midwestern resurgence of bands committed to traditional metal played with genuine conviction.
A speed metal act from the North Holland city of Alkmaar, Metastasis has been delivering rapid-fire compositions since 2012. The band pairs the cancerous spread of their name with the relentless velocity of classic speed metal.
Methodemic is a speed metal act from Birmingham, delivering razor-sharp riffing and breakneck tempos since 2013. The band draws from the deep metal heritage of the West Midlands with a sound rooted in classic speed metal.
Boston's Mick Karnage arrived in 2024 with a speed metal attack that looks squarely to the mid-'80s for inspiration — fast tempos, razor-sharp riffing, and an unabashed love of aggressive traditional metal. As a new entry in Boston's metal underground, they bring a retro-focused urgency that makes clear they are uninterested in reinventing anything, only in doing it harder and faster.
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