Rising Steel

Recalling the new wave of British heavy metal and the riff-heavy acts that followed that example, French band Rising Steel offer unbridled metal action for true rock believers on aggressive albums including Fight Them All (2020), Beyond the Gates of Hell (2022), and Legion of the Grave (2025). Hailing from Grenoble, France, Rising Steel first came together on a 2012 compilation called Mountains Sessions -- a French Alps equivalent to the Desert Sessions compilations that codified the late-‘90s Palm Desert scene. Only half of the line-up on that album's closing track, "Satan W...