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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Newsflash (2023)
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Rancid Cadaver is a death metal band from Glasgow, Scotland, formed in 2022. The band delivers aggressive death metal from Scotland's largest city.
Rancid Pus is a goregrind/death metal project from Glamsbjerg on the island of Funen in Denmark, formed in 2020. The project delivers visceral extreme music from the Danish countryside.
Rancid Taint Discharge is a brutal death metal band from Turku, Finland, formed in 2020. The band delivers punishing, uncompromising brutality from Finland's former medieval capital.
Rancor was a hardcore/death/thrash metal band from Limburg, Belgium, formed in 1995. They released the demo 'Death Collector' and the EP 'Death Is Everywhere' (2006) on Lifeforce Records before eventually splitting up.
Death metal band from Bucharest, Romania, active since 2018. Their approach delivers death metal from the Romanian capital.
Rancunes is a deathcore band from Dunkirk on the northernmost coast of France, formed in 2025. The band delivers heavy breakdowns from the industrial port city near the Belgian border.
Rancúnia is a death/thrash metal band from Catalonia, Spain, formed in 2025. The band represents the newest generation of Catalan extreme metal.
Doom/death metal band from Saint Petersburg, Russia, formed in 2024. Their approach combines doom's crushing weight with death metal's ferocity from Russia's northern capital.
Melodic death metal band from Moscow, Russia, active since 2014. Their approach delivers Scandinavian-influenced melodic death metal from the Russian capital.
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