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Rannoch is a progressive death metal band from the Midlands, England, active since 2008. Named after the remote Scottish moor, the band delivers complex progressive death metal from the heart of England.
Ranzer is a death/thrash metal and crust band from Kassel in central Germany, formed in 2023. The band merges the velocity of thrash and death metal with the gritty energy of crust punk from the northern Hessian underground.
Experimental/death metal/metalcore band from Rzeszów, Poland, active since 2013. Their approach pushes extreme metal into experimental territory from the southeastern Polish city.
California's Raped by Lucifer have been grinding out a filthy hybrid of death metal and grindcore since 2014, leaning into the genre's most confrontational traditions with short, savage blasts. The project sits squarely in the American death-grind underground, where extremity of sound matches extremity of name.
Raped Cadaver is a death metal band from Berlin, Germany, formed in 2025 and representing the newest wave of extreme metal emerging from the German capital. The project channels uncompromising death metal brutality.
Rapid Dominance is a progressive death/thrash/groove metal band from Silkeborg in central Jutland, Denmark, active since 2012. The band merges progressive complexity with death, thrash, and groove metal from the Danish lake district.
Black/death/thrash metal band from Sanok in southeastern Poland, formed in 2025. Their triple-genre approach delivers unrelenting extreme metal from the Bieszczady Mountains foothills.
Rapture is a death metal band from Munich, Germany, formed in 2015 and delivering unrelenting death metal from Bavaria's capital. The band contributes to Munich's diverse extreme metal scene alongside numerous sludge, doom, and black metal acts.
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.
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