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Divine (2024)
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Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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Nashua, New Hampshire's Ryan Burke operates as a solo project fusing thrash metal's precision and speed with groove metal's locked-in, syncopated heaviness, a combination honed since the project's 2022 start.
Rytual is a thrash/death metal band from Angoulême in southwestern France, formed in 2024. The band delivers aggressive thrash-death from the Charente department.
Ryvelion are a Thrash Metal band from Pitalito, Huila, Colombia, formed in 2014. They released the EP "Desgracia y destrucción" in 2021 and their debut full-length "Rebelión de los condenados" in 2023, recorded and mixed at Pagan Studio in Pitalito, with lyrical themes encompassing war, social issues, and metal itself.
Rätäk is a speed/thrash metal band from Helsinki, Finland, active since 2016. The band delivers high-velocity speed-thrash from the Finnish capital.
Vilnius black/thrash metal act launched in 2026, fusing the raw velocity of thrash with black metal's atmospheric darkness. Their aggressive crossover represents the newest generation of Lithuanian extreme metal.
Rågbröder is a genre-defying band from Parainen (Pargas) in the Finnish archipelago, active since 2008, blending folk, black, heavy, and thrash metal with alternative rock and ska punk. Their eclectic approach makes them one of the most stylistically diverse metal-adjacent acts in Finland.
Régimen Secreto is a thrash metal and crossover band from Pontevedra in Galicia, northwestern Spain, formed in 2023. Named 'Secret Regime' in Spanish, the band fuses thrash with crossover punk from the Galician coast.
Thrash/death metal band founded in 2016 in Fortaleza, Ceará, who released their debut EP Dias de Fúria in August 2018. The record was recorded, mixed, and mastered at Esconderijo studio in Fortaleza by producer Leandro Osterne, with tracks including 'Sangue Inocente' and 'Nem que o Teto Caia'.
Rêx Mündi is an American black metal project operating since 2011, drawing on the rawness and esoteric atmosphere that define the genre's underground tradition, with an identity rooted more in concept than geography.
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