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.

Lizzy Borden is a Los Angeles heavy metal band formed in 1983 by vocalist Gregory Charles Harges, who performs and records under the band's name, and drummer Joey Scott. Rooted in the shock rock theatrics of Alice Cooper and Kiss, the band signed to Metal Blade Records in 1984 and released a string of albums through the late 1980s, reaching their commercial peak with Visual Lies (1987). After a prolonged hiatus, Lizzy Borden returned with My Midnight Things (2018), their first album in eleven years, which charted on the Billboard 200.