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.

Apopka, Florida's Hollentor deal in the epic and the anthemic, blending heavy metal muscle with power metal's soaring sensibility since 2017. Their name — German for "gateway to hell" — hints at the grandiose drama they pursue.

Soaring Heavy / Power Metal (early); Alternative / Hard Rock (later) from Houston.

Reno, Nevada's Honor Bound have been flying the flag of traditional power metal since 2013, built on bold harmonies, galloping rhythms, and an unapologetic love of the epic. High desert skies demand big riffs.

Marietta, Georgia's power/thrash hybrid flies dangerously close to the sun on wings of twin-guitar harmony and galloping rhythms, blending classic metal ambition with the sharpened-blade intensity of thrash.

Lowell, Massachusetts outfit that began in classic power metal territory and evolved into something far more ferocious — symphonic melodic death metal of genuine scope, with orchestral grandeur underpinning serious heaviness.

Epic power/heavy metal forged at the foot of Arizona's San Francisco Peaks, Ice Sword wields a sound steeped in fantasy mythology and classic metal heroics, sharpened to a razor edge since 2015.

Fronted by Texas metal legend Jason McMaster (Watchtower, Dangerous Toys) since 2008. NWOBHM worship on Metal on Metal Records.

San Carlos veterans Imagika have been fusing power metal's soaring melodics with thrash metal's technical aggression since 2007, representing the best of what the Bay Area's scene has always done well.

Triumphant Progressive / Power Metal from Harlingen, Texas (early); Las Vegas, Nevada (later).