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Technical death metal band from Saint Petersburg, Russia, active since 2007. Nearly two decades of technically demanding death metal from Russia's cultural capital.
Doom/death metal band from Oryol, Russia, active since 2017. Their approach combines doom's crushing weight with death metal's ferocity from the central Russian city.
Refugium is a melodic death/thrash metal band from the Delmenhorst/Ganderkesee area near Bremen in Lower Saxony, Germany, formed in 2024. The band fuses melodic death metal's sweeping hooks with thrash metal velocity from the northwest German flatlands.
Refusal is a death metal band from Helsinki, Finland, active since 2016. The band delivers aggressive death metal from the Finnish capital's prolific extreme metal underground.
Refused Absolution is a death metal band from Passau in Lower Bavaria, Germany, where the Danube, Inn, and Ilz rivers converge. The band delivers unrelenting death metal from one of Bavaria's easternmost cities near the Austrian border.
Melodic death metal/metalcore band from Bryansk, Russia, active since 2009. Their long-running project bridges melodic death metal with metalcore from the western Russian city.
Regent is a death/thrash metal band from Bad Freienwalde in Brandenburg, Germany, formed in 2025. The project channels aggressive death-thrash from the rural northeastern German countryside east of Berlin.
Thrash/death metal band from Caserta near Naples, Italy, active since 2014. Their Latin name, meaning 'kingdom of wrath,' accompanies aggressive extreme metal from the Campanian plains.
Black/death metal band from Lenzing, Upper Austria, formed in July 2014 — the name translates to 'Kingdom of Noricum,' the ancient Celtic kingdom of modern Austria. Their music fuses melodic black and death metal riffing with lyrical themes of Celtic resistance against the Roman Empire, spirituality, and ritual warfare, across albums Norici Erbo (2017) and Lost Legacy (2025).
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