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Vienna-based four-piece formed in 2022, Rat King Gone channels the rough underground energy of late-1980s to mid-1990s crossover thrash and sludge. Their 2025 album Sprezzatura offers a grim, caustic vision of societal collapse across 13 tracks, following their 2023 debut Homo Homini Lupus.
Out of Plainfield, New Jersey, Rat Race have been working the heavy metal and hard rock circuit since 2015, drawing on the gritty blue-collar energy the Garden State's metal scene is known for. Their sound rides the line between arena-sized riffing and street-level aggression.
Rat Salad is a thrash metal band from Hamburg, Germany, active since 1996 — making them one of the longer-running thrash acts in northern Germany. Named after the Black Sabbath instrumental, the band has maintained their commitment to thrash metal for nearly three decades.
Ratfeast is a Berlin-based crust band formed in 2018 and consisting of three self-described 'metalheads trying to play crust.' Their releases include a demo tape and a split with Minenfeld titled Minenratten, channeling the D.I.Y. ethos of Berlin's punk and metal crossover scene.
Ratos de Porão (Portuguese for "Basement Rats") formed in São Paulo in November 1981 and went on to release Crucificados pelo Sistema in 1984, the first hardcore punk LP issued by a Latin American band. Vocalist João Gordo joined for that debut and has remained the band's frontman ever since; their 1987 album Cada dia mais sujo e agressivo is widely credited as the first Brazilian crossover thrash record of note, and the band has since released more than fourteen studio albums while continuing to tour South America, North America, Europe, and Asia.
Ratrotten is a black/thrash metal band from the Uettingen/Thüngersheim area in Lower Franconia, Bavaria, formed in 2025. The project fuses the raw fury of black metal with the speed and riff-driven attack of thrash from rural northern Bavaria.
Thrash/groove metal band from Janowice, Poland, active since 2017. Their warlike name accompanies aggressive thrash-groove from the small Polish village.
Ravage Inc. is a thrash/death metal band from Oldenburg in Lower Saxony, Germany, active since 2004. The band channels aggressive thrash and death metal from the university city in Germany's northwest.
Ravage Machinery is a death/thrash metal band from Rovaniemi, the capital of Finnish Lapland, active since 2011 and evolving from earlier melodic death metal roots. The band delivers extreme metal from the Arctic Circle, one of the world's northernmost metal outposts.
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