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Raging Rectum Renegades is a death metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden, formed in 2011. Their album 'Rectalbum' blends brutal death metal and deathcore with dark humor and absurdist themes, written and recorded as a DIY project by members Gorebert and Senneth.
Symphonic black/death metal project from Hungary, formed in 2021. Their approach layers orchestral grandeur over extreme metal ferocity.
Raiden is a metalcore/death metal band from Essex, England, formed in 2015. The band fuses metalcore dynamics with death metal aggression from the county northeast of London.
Melodic death/doom/gothic metal band from Belgrade, Serbia, with roots dating to 2005. Two decades of dark, atmospheric metal from the Serbian capital.
Rain Eyes is a death metal/deathcore band from Leeds in West Yorkshire, England, formed in 2020. The band delivers heavy, breakdown-laden extreme metal from the major city in northern England.
Funeral doom/death metal/ambient project from Moscow, active since 2014. Their evocative, nature-poetic name frames glacially paced compositions exploring death and seasonal desolation.
Rain of Acid is a melodic death metal band from Vaasa on the west coast of Finland, formed in 2024. The band delivers melodic death metal from the Ostrobothnian coastal city.
Rainroom is a progressive death/doom metal and ambient project from Espoo, Finland, active since 2016. The project layers ambient atmospherics over progressive death-doom from the major city adjacent to Helsinki.
Melodic death metal band from Voronezh, Russia, with roots dating to 2003. Over two decades of Scandinavian-influenced melodic death metal from central Russia.
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