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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Rotko is a Finnish black/doom metal project formed in 2015. Named after the Finnish word for 'ravine,' the project merges the atmospheric darkness of black metal with crushing doom.
Rotovathor is a Viking/black/thrash metal band from Siegbach in Hesse, Germany, active since 2009. The band fuses Norse-themed Viking metal with black and thrash metal from the Lahn-Dill hills of central Germany.
Rotrum Corvus is a black metal project from Bonn, the former West German capital, formed in 2023. The project channels dark, atmospheric black metal from the Rhine valley city in North Rhine-Westphalia.
Black metal project from Nowy Targ in the Polish Tatra Mountains, active since 2011. The project channels mountain-born black metal from the Podhale region.
Raw black metal project from Astrakhan on the Caspian Sea, active since 2016. The project delivers lo-fi, abrasive black metal from the Volga delta.
Rome experimental black metal project formed in 2020, pushing the genre's boundaries through unconventional sonic approaches from Italy's capital. Their adventurous take on black metal defies easy categorization.
Portland's Rotten Funeral emerged in 2020, trafficking in the raw and corrosive sounds of black metal with a spirit that feels rooted in the Pacific Northwest underground. Their work is suffused with a cold, ceremonial atmosphere that draws on the genre's most primitive and uncompromising traditions.
Rotten Light is a depressive black metal project from Burgos in Castile and León, Spain, active since 2013. The project channels melancholic, introspective black metal from the Gothic cathedral city on the northern Castilian meseta.
Rotten Moon is a raw black metal project from Tampere, Finland, formed in 2024. The project delivers lo-fi, unpolished black metal from Finland's third-largest city.
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