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People Watching (2024)
Featured Groove Metal Album
L'Enfant Sauvage (Special Edition) (2012)
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The Necrotic Manifesto (Bonus Tracks Edition) (2023)
11/14 @ The Majestic Ventura Theater, Ventura
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Among the Shadows (2024)
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Progressive metal/rock band from Kristiansand, Norway, active since 2012. Their approach delivers technically ambitious progressive compositions from southern Norway.
Pueblo, Colorado's Rendlesham take their name from a famous UFO incident and match that cosmic mystery with stoner metal that lumbers and levitates in equal measure. Since 2015 they've been Pueblo's heavy ambassadors, building riff-worship around fuzz-drenched guitars and an unhurried, planet-rolling heaviness. Equal parts desert and outer space.
Renegade Angel is a heavy metal band from Vaasa on the west coast of Finland, formed in 2025. The band delivers traditional heavy metal from the bilingual coastal city in Ostrobothnia.
Heavy metal band from Chester, England, active since 2018. Their approach delivers classic heavy metal from the historic Roman-era border city.
Blackened death metal band from Rijeka, Croatia, formed in 2021. Their Italian-language name, meaning 'renaissance,' accompanies a fierce black/death approach from the Adriatic coast.
Renewal is a brutal death metal band from Luhačovice in the Zlín Region of eastern Moravia, Czech Republic, formed in 2025. The project represents the newest wave of Czech brutal death metal emerging from the country's spa-town countryside.
Renfield is a progressive/power/thrash metal band from Göttingen in Lower Saxony, Germany, formed in 2017. Named after the insect-eating character from Bram Stoker's Dracula, the band blends progressive complexity with power and thrash metal from the university city in central Germany.
Rennaissance is a power metal and rock band from Geneva, Switzerland, formed in 2012 and delivering melodic, anthemic metal rooted in the European tradition. The band operates independently in the Swiss French-speaking metal scene.
Rentgen is a heavy metal band from Týn nad Vltavou in southern Bohemia, Czech Republic, formed in 2020. The band takes its name from the Czech word for X-ray, delivering traditional heavy metal from the Vltava river valley.
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