Pittsburgh's Lady Beast have spent over a decade championing traditional heavy and power metal with muscular riffs and soaring vocals rooted in the classic NWOBHM tradition. Since 2012 they've been one of the Steel City's most reliably electrifying metal acts.

Asheville, North Carolina's Lammoth draw on Tolkien mythology for their name and channel it through melodic black metal rich with atmosphere and mountainous grandeur. Formed in 2021, they fit naturally into the Appalachian city's thriving underground.

California power metal act Last Cadence pursue the genre's grand, orchestral ambitions since their 2018 formation, with an emphasis on melodic hooks and epic scope. They carry the tradition of European power metal into American hands.

Tampa's Last Rite has spent over a decade honing a sound that trades off power metal's anthemic sweep against thrash's razor-wire attack, rooted in Florida's storied heavy metal tradition.

Indianapolis doom/power metal outfit Lavaborne forge heavy, dramatic music from the tension between soaring melodic ambition and earth-shaking low-end weight, active since 2017.

One of America's longest-running progressive power metal acts, Lethal have been crafting keyboard-laced, melodically adventurous heavy metal from Hebron, Kentucky since the mid-1960s — a true institutional presence.

Atlanta's Levitation soar through progressive power metal with a Southern confidence, pairing intricate arrangements and dynamic shifts with the kind of clean vocal muscle that fills Georgia arenas.

Stamford, Connecticut's Liege Lord are one of the East Coast's finest power and speed metal artifacts, sharpening their twin-guitar attack since 1987 into a body of work that still cleaves clean.

Milwaukee's Liquid Steele bring a blue-collar toughness to power metal, pairing soaring hooks with muscle and a knack for anthemic, hard-hitting songcraft.

South San Francisco's Lokheira arrived in 2023 with a power metal sound built on soaring vocals, galloping rhythms, and the wide-open ambition of the Bay Area's metal tradition.

Madison's Lords of the Trident make theatrical, high-octane heavy and power metal with comic-book mythology and earnest commitment to hooks, anthems, and all things epic.

Clearwater, Florida's Loupgarou bring a shape-shifting intensity to power metal and hard rock, conjuring the name's werewolf mythology in melodic, hook-laden surges.

Tacoma's Luminator emerged in 2022 with a bright-edged take on power metal, channeling the Pacific Northwest's brooding energy into soaring riffs and anthemic hooks. A young band already pushing the genre's melodic upper limits.

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