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R.A.W. is a melodic thrash metal band from Peine in Lower Saxony, Germany, active since 2013. The band fuses melodic sensibility with thrash metal intensity from the North German underground.
Groove and thrash metal act from the Tuscan port city of Livorno, formed in 2023 and delivering heavy rhythmic power and speed. Their dual approach draws from groove metal's crushing weight and thrash's relentless velocity.
R.I.P. Sanity is a thrash/death metal band from London, England, formed in 2014. The band delivers aggressive death-thrash from one of the world's great music capitals.
R.I.P. Soldier was a thrash metal band from Recife, Pernambuco, who recorded their sole album The True Soldiers Never Die between October 2009 and January 2010. The ten-track album — drawing influences from Bay Area thrash and Sepultura's Beneath the Remains era — was released in 2014 through GS Productions in a limited edition of 100 digipak CDs.
R.O.J.O. is a thrash metal band from Valencia, Spain, active since 2004. Over two decades of thrash metal from the Mediterranean port city make them veterans of the Valencian metal scene.
R.O.T. is a thrash metal band from Barcelona, Spain, formed in 2016. The band delivers fast, aggressive thrash from the Catalan capital's vibrant metal underground.
Races is a thrash metal band from Mainz, the Rhineland-Palatinate capital in Germany, active since 2011. The band delivers classic thrash metal energy from the Rhine-Main region's underground metal scene.
Forged in the Twin Cities in 2015, Rad Enhancer brings a modern edge to thrash metal's aggressive tradition, channeling Minneapolis's underground energy into riff-driven assaults and punishing tempos. They occupy the harder end of the city's metal scene, where DIY ethic and technical ferocity collide.
Radiation is a thrash metal band from Malmö, Sweden, active since 2011. The southern Swedish outfit delivers straightforward, riff-driven thrash metal in the classic tradition of the genre.
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