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The Antarctican

The Antarctican Wins Best Power Metal Band

Albany, NY-

At the 2025 Extreme Music Awards, where New York’s upstate heavy music scene is recognized for its achievements and contributions to metal, The Antarctican was nominated for two categories: Best Music Video, and Best Power Metal Band.

The group took Best Power Metal Band, announced by none other than David Ellefson of Megadeth fame:

“Megadeth was far and away my favorite band growing up and is still a huge influence to this day. Having the chance to meet Dave Ellefson was amazing in itself but to hear him announce my band winning the best power metal category is absolutely surreal. Thank you to everyone out there who has ever supported me and The Antarctican!” -Giuliano Isopo, guitarist

The 2025 EMA included other hosts of metal music fame, including members of scene giants Slayer, Hatebreed, Shadows Fall, Type O Negative, Anthrax, Flotsam and Jetsam, and more.

The Antarctican

A Heist at the Hardware Store

The Antarctican’s latest video, for their single STOLEN THRONE, showcases the band’s lesser known talent: thievery. With the astute guidance of The Boss, the quintet managed to pull off a high-stakes heist at a well known public retail establishment. Watch them execute a complicated, deadly strategy and survive to tell about it–barely.

The Antarctican

Plans for a Pro Music Video Foiled

Noah and the Chilly Boys managed to acquire enough aluminum foil and LEDs to realize their dream of creating a music video that perfectly fits the tone of their debut single. As a team of five “adults”, it can be difficult to manage the hurdles that come along with time management, teamwork, and creative collaboration. It’s nice to see that they’re not afraid to poke fun at themselves and have a good time along the way.

Watch and giggle: “Abduction”

The Antarctican

The Antarctican Joins QRV

Quadrivalent Records welcomes metal band The Antarctican to its humble roster!

The band hails from Ballston Lake, New York, where they compose groove/power metal, citing influences like Nevermore, Haken, Scar Symmetry, Gojira, Blind Guardian, and Control Denied.

Listen to “Abduction”:

The Antarctican – Abduction
@Bandcamp

Unofficial Bio:

Actively denying that pandemic boredom spawned a metal band, the members of The Antarctican indulge a fantasy that their project comes from the lethal desolation of that icy continent, a primordial cross-section of unfathomable extra-terrestrial sophistication, mutagenic radioactive reptile droppings, and limitless volcanoes of molten mental magma.  What The Antarctican is not, they assure you, is five guys from upstate New York who argue about squirrels a lot.

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