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Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
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I Am the Void (Drumcorps Remix) (2024)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Crushing Technical Deathcore from Bay Area, California (early); Texas (later).
Riot of Violence is a melodic death metal band from Barcelona, Spain, active since 2011. The band delivers aggressive melodic death metal from the Catalan capital's thriving extreme metal scene.
Ripped 2 Shreds is a death metal and grindcore band from Münster in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, formed in 2018. The band brings extreme speed and brutality to the Westphalian university city's underground.
Death metal band from Bristol, England, formed in 2019. Their approach delivers brutal death metal from one of the UK's most vibrant music cities.
Portland, Oregon's Ripped Off launched in 2025 as one of the newest acts fusing death metal's extremity with hardcore's raw, confrontational urgency — a combination with deep roots in the Pacific Northwest's historically intense underground. Their name signals their ethos: stripped back, pissed off, and uninterested in polish. Even this early in their existence, they're plugged into Portland's vibrant heavy music community, which has long fostered this kind of brutal, crossover aggression.
Rippikoulu is a doom/death metal band from Valkeakoski in southern Finland, active since 2014. Named after the Finnish word for 'confirmation school,' the band delivers crushing doom-death from the Pirkanmaa region.
Ripping Flesh are a Technical/Brutal Death Metal band from Bogotá, Colombia, formed in 2010. Signed to Coyote Records, they released their debut full-length "Episodes of Chaotic Extinction" in 2015, followed by the EP "Conqueror of Cosmos" in 2020, drawing lyrical themes from chaos, damnation, and the fiction of H.P. Lovecraft.
Ripstitch is a death/groove/thrash metal band from Helsingborg, Sweden, active since 2005. The band has spent nearly two decades delivering a versatile blend of extreme metal subgenres from the southern Swedish coast.
Death/thrash metal band from Athens, Greece, active since 2013. Their approach merges death metal's heaviness with thrash metal's velocity from the Greek capital.
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