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Minneapolis's Raptor Claw arrived in 2014 with a black/thrash blueprint that channels both the savagery of first-wave black metal and the pit-ready drive of crossover thrash. In a city with a deep and diverse metal underground, they carve their niche through sheer velocity and cold riffing.
Raptvre is a Cologne-based black/death metal duo formed in February 2018 by Kirill Gromada (also of Ayahuasca and Pripjat) and Stefan Braunschmidt of Shitshifter and Nvrvd. Self-described as 'the ugly yet ambitious love child' of its founders, the project explores the abyssal depths of black, death, and progressive metal with a dissonant and abrasive twist.
Rarach is a Czech black metal project formed in 2019, named after a demon from Slavic mythology. The project channels dark, occult-themed black metal drawing from the rich tradition of Czech and Central European extreme metal.
Black metal project from Oryol, Russia, formed in 2024. The project channels black metal from the central Russian city.
Raskol is a one-man black metal and grindcore project from Recife, Pernambuco, created and run entirely by Bruno Kbça Nascimento. The project released three records in quick succession — Kvlt Skvm Krvst (April 2019), Perturbado (July 2019), and Um Rato (February 2020) — all of which sit in a raw, crust-inflected blackened grindcore style rooted in the DIY underground of Brazil's northeast.
Rassacache is a black metal band from Douai in the Nord department of northern France, formed in 2021. The band delivers atmospheric black metal from the old mining country of French Flanders.
Rassenkrieg is a black metal project from Zwickau in Saxony, Germany, formed in 2021. The project operates in the raw, underground black metal tradition of eastern Germany.
Ratatosk is a German black metal project formed in 2010 and named after the squirrel of Norse mythology that runs along the world tree Yggdrasil. The project channels Norse mythological themes through atmospheric black metal.
Emerging from Malvern, Pennsylvania in 2019, Ratlorde deal in raw, minimalist black metal that feels appropriately subterranean and isolated — music conjured in the margins of suburban sprawl outside Philadelphia. The project carries an aura of pestilent misanthropy that fits the name perfectly.
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