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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.
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.
Raped by Pigs is a brutal death metal band from Lima, Peru, formed in 2009 in the Breña district. Their sound draws from American-style slam and brutal death metal, with lyrical themes of torture, perversion, and horror. The band has released multiple recordings including the albums Squealing to the New World (2014) and Mental Diseases and Congenital Malformations (2019).
Pittsburgh's Ravaged by Ghouls, active since 2020, merge the brutality of blackened death metal with the breakdowns and density of deathcore, creating something appropriately ghoulish and heavy. The Steel City's industrial atmosphere bleeds through their sound — massive, corroded, and unforgiving.
Rayz is a deathcore/death metal band from Fuenlabrada near Madrid, Spain, formed in 2021. The band delivers punishing breakdowns and extreme vocals from Madrid's southern metropolitan area.
Technical deathcore act from the Weinviertel region of Lower Austria, Reanima was active from 1999 to around 2013 and focused their lyrical content on themes of humanity, ignorance, and despotism. Their 2012 album Great Whore of Babylon stands as their defining statement within the Austrian extreme metal underground.
Rectal Terror is a brutal deathcore act from Minsk, Belarus, emerging in 2025 as part of the city's growing extreme metal underground. The project channels punishing breakdowns and guttural vocals characteristic of the genre's most uncompromising strain.
Nashville's Rectal Ventriloquist have been weaponizing the blunt end of deathcore since 2020, taking the genre's penchant for grotesque imagery and pairing it with death metal's brutality in a city better known for country music than gutted breakdowns. The contrast is part of the point.
Red Means No Mercy is a brutal deathcore band from Kassel in northern Hesse, Germany, formed in 2018. The band delivers punishing breakdowns and extreme vocal performances as part of Kassel's active extreme metal scene.
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