Based out of Thurmont, Maryland, Miriah blend traditional heavy metal grit with the sweeping, choir-ready melodies of power metal, a one-woman project that since 2019 has offered earnest, hook-forward metal rooted in classic influences.

Brooklyn-based Misha Kushnir is a solo project combining the melodic grandeur of power metal with the compositional ambition of progressive metal, offering technically accomplished material shaped by the cosmopolitan influences of New York City's diverse metal community since 2018.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin's Model Citizen have been welding power metal melody to thrash metal aggression since 2009, occupying the territory where soaring hooks meet riff-driven urgency. The band carries the Midwest's no-nonsense work ethic into a sound that values both shred and song structure equally.

Snoqualmie, Washington's Monster Blood are a hyperactive collision of crossover thrash, grindcore, power metal, and powerviolence — a chaotic, tongue-in-cheek band that refuses to settle into any single lane since forming in 2015.

Detroit's Montage have been working the heavy/power metal spectrum since 2002, combining soaring melodic ambition with the blunt, blue-collar heaviness that defines the Motor City's long metallic tradition.

Cleveland's Montez formed in 2021 and play speed/power metal with the breakneck intensity the genre demands — sharp, melodic, and built on a tradition that the Midwest has quietly sustained since the 1980s.

Named for the vengeful narrator of Poe's 'The Cask of Amontillado,' Irvine's Montresor have been delivering heavy and power metal since 2011 — ambitious, melodic, and steeped in classic metal storytelling from Southern California.

Oklahoma City's Monument started out in power metal territory before shifting into a more aggressive death/thrash hybrid, reflecting the kind of restless evolution that has defined the band across their existence since 2021.

A melodic power metal outfit from Vancouver, Washington, formed in 2025, delivering the soaring vocals and galloping rhythms that define the European power metal tradition filtered through an American lens.