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Rivologi is a black metal band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2021. The band channels dark, atmospheric black metal from the Finnish capital.
Riwen is a black metal/crust punk band from Umeå, Sweden, formed in 2014. Founded by former members of Cult of Luna and Totalt Jävla Mörker, the band delivers a brutal fusion of black metal intensity and crust punk urgency across releases like 'A Brutal Reality' and 'The Cold.'
Rodent Epoch is a black metal band from Oulu in northern Finland, formed in 2018. The band delivers cold, misanthropic black metal from the Finnish north.
ROG is a one-person black metal project based in Sofia, Bulgaria, listed on Encyclopaedia Metallum as an active solo act within the Bulgarian underground black metal scene. The project maintains a minimal public presence in keeping with the lo-fi, isolationist aesthetic common to one-man black metal.
Death/black metal band from Kraków, Poland, active since 2018. Their Polish name, meaning 'horned,' accompanies extreme metal from Poland's cultural capital.
Roggvir is a black/death metal project from Germany, formed in 2019 and named after a character from The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. The project fuses black and death metal into extreme compositions.
Black metal project from Padua, Italy, formed in 2023. Their Italian name, meaning 'mange' or 'scab,' signals the diseased character of their black metal from the Veneto city.
Formed in Los Angeles in 2017, Rognir deal in bleak, lo-fi black metal that feels out of step with the sun-bleached city around them. The project channels Scandinavian second-wave aesthetics through a distinctly isolated Californian lens, all brittle riffs and frost-bitten atmosphere.
Rogthorn is a German black metal project formed in 2021, delivering raw and atmospheric black metal. The project operates from the depths of the German underground.
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