---
title: "US Power Metal"
type: "MusicGenre"
url: "https://themetalnet.com/genre/us-power-metal"
parent: "Heavy Metal"
bands: 8
era: "mid 1980s"
---

# US Power Metal

**US Power Metal** is a metal sub-genre, formative in the mid 1980s. TheMetalNet maps 8 bands and 38 albums under it.

US power metal is the American take on power metal — grittier, heavier, and more riff-focused than its melodic European cousin, with a strong thrash and NWOBHM influence. It sprang up after the NWOBHM in the early-to-mid 1980s, as bands like Manowar, Jag Panzer, and later Iced Earth sped up traditional metal, piled on solos, and pushed vocals to soaring, often operatic highs. Lyrics favor war, fantasy, mythology, and heroic struggle. It is triumphant, muscular, and epic.

## Facts

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Genre | US Power Metal |
| Level | Sub-genre |
| Parent genre | Heavy Metal |
| Formative era | mid 1980s |
| Bands | 8 |
| Albums | 38 |
| Formation span | 1979 to 2021 |

## Bands

- [Vicious Rumors](https://themetalnet.com/band/vicious-rumors) (United States, 1979)
- [Leatherwolf](https://themetalnet.com/band/leatherwolf) (United States, 1981)
- [Halloween](https://themetalnet.com/band/halloween) (United States, 1984)
- [Wrath](https://themetalnet.com/band/wrath-bcc17168) (United States, 1982)
- [Hawaii](https://themetalnet.com/band/hawaii) (United States, 1982)
- [Valor](https://themetalnet.com/band/valor) (Greece, 2003)
- [Baron Carta](https://themetalnet.com/band/baron-carta) (2020)
- [Mutiny Bay](https://themetalnet.com/band/mutiny-bay) (2021)

## Where it is played

- [United States](https://themetalnet.com/country/us): 5 bands
- [Greece](https://themetalnet.com/country/gr): 1 bands

## Bands formed by decade

| Decade | Bands formed |
| --- | --- |
| 1970s | 1 |
| 1980s | 4 |
| 2000s | 1 |
| 2020s | 2 |

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Source: [TheMetalNet https://themetalnet.com/genre/us-power-metal](https://themetalnet.com/genre/us-power-metal). Catalog data from MusicBrainz and Metal Archives. Full site index: https://themetalnet.com/llms.txt