New Jersey's Hades has one of the longer journeys in underground U.S. metal — from power and heavy metal roots to a full thrash conversion, the Paramus band traces a lineage back to the early days of East Coast extremity while remaining active through the present.

Nashville's Halo Theory launched in 2023 blending the fist-pumping lift of power metal with the neck-snapping drive of groove, a combination that sounds right at home in a city that takes its heavy music seriously.

Fresh out of Asheville, North Carolina, Halogi arrived in 2025 flying the flag for soaring power metal in a city more often associated with folk and psych. Expect big riffs, bigger choruses, and the mountain air to carry them.

80s power/thrash act originally from New Orleans, relocated to Dallas. Their rare 1987 Return to Salem EP is a collector's item.

Absolutely punishing grindcore / powerviolence from Houston.

Los Angeles heavy/power metal act Haven draw on the anthemic tradition of the genre, pairing muscular riffs with melodic vocal hooks that aim for the epic. Formed in 2018, the band channels the sweeping ambition of classic power metal into a contemporary package.

New Jersey's Haven traffic in the soaring melodic hooks and driving rhythm section that define heavy/power metal, carrying forward a tradition of earnest, full-throated metal forged since 2018. There's a guileless energy to their sound that recalls the genre's wide-eyed NWOBHM-influenced roots.

California's Heathendom formed in 2025 as a symphonic black metal project, layering orchestral grandeur over cold, dissonant riffing in the tradition of the genre's most theatrical practitioners. They're among the newest acts in the domestic symphonic black metal scene, arriving with fully formed ambition.

Milwaukee's Hedda have been weaving progressive and power metal together since 2006, combining the latter's melodic lift with the structural ambition of the former into an approach that prioritizes both feeling and technical execution. They're one of the Midwest's more durable prog-power acts.

Sacramento's Helion Prime deals in soaring, science-themed power metal built around virtuoso playing and dramatic vocal performances. Relaunched in 2020, the band embraces the genre's grandest traditions — epic riffs, sweeping choruses, and cosmic subject matter — without a hint of irony.

Female-fronted symphonic power metal in the European tradition. Features vocalist Chelsea Knaack, formerly of DesDemon.

Salt Lake City's Hellbender found their footing in 2020 crafting heavy and power metal that balances muscular riffing with melodic ambition. The band channels classic metal's sense of adventure into tight, anthem-ready songwriting.

Florida's Helms Deep arrived in 2023 armed with the kind of heavy and power metal that prizes epic momentum over subtlety — loud, anthemic, and unapologetically bombastic in the tradition of the genre's great fortress-builders. A band that clearly enjoys swinging for the battlements.

Houston power/speed metal. James Rivera's voice is one of the great Texas metal instruments.

Oklahoma City's Hills of Tyburn evoke the gallows grounds of old London in their name and bring a similarly dark, dramatic quality to their heavy and power metal. Since 2012, they've leaned into the theatrical sweep of the power metal tradition while keeping one foot planted in classic heavy metal firmness.