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Black metal project from Ryazan, Russia, formed in 2019. Their French philosophical name, meaning 'resentment,' channels Nietzschean darkness through black metal.
Death-grind band founded in mid-1998 in Manaus, Amazonas, by vocalist Marcos Campos and guitarist Luiz Souza, who relocated to Goiânia, Goiás around 2001 where drummer Sandinho Costa joined the lineup. The band released the debut full-length Agregados Onímodos Malditos in February 2005 through Two Beers Or Not Two Beers Records and Independência Records, recorded at Tokaia Studio in Goiânia, and followed with the EP Morficaos (2009) and the album Mapinguari (2014).
Rest is a death metal band from Fos-sur-Mer on the Mediterranean coast near Marseille, France, formed in 2014. The band delivers death metal from the Provençal industrial port.
Rest Eternall is a progressive death metal band from Mexico City, Mexico, formed in 2015. The band released demos including Unnatural Extinction (2016) and Human Misery/Asymmetrical Nature (2022), followed by singles in 2023. Their music combines progressive structures with death metal aggression.
Death/doom metal band from João Pessoa, Paraíba, formed around 2010, whose lyrics draw on Buddhist philosophy, Hindu mythology, and themes of psychological despair. The band released the EP As Beauty Springs From Mud… in 2010, combining mid-paced death metal with doom and melodic death elements alongside dreamlike instrumental passages. They later relocated to Oldenburg, Germany, where they continued as an active act.
Graz-based melodic death metal sextet founded in 2007, Rest in Fear gained significant recognition as semifinalists at the Austrian Band Contest 2011, main-stage openers at MetalDays 2014, and nominees at the 2015 Amadeus Austrian Music Award in the Hard & Heavy category. Their two albums, Insert Yourself (2011) and Shallows Deep (2014, G Minor Records), blend catchy keyboard and guitar hooklines with fast-paced death metal aggression.
Rest in Furia is a groove metal/hardcore band from Herblay-sur-Seine near Paris, France, formed in 2020. The band fuses groove metal weight with hardcore intensity from the Parisian suburbs.
Rest in Pain is a death metal band from Tröbnitz in Thuringia, Germany, formed in 2014. The band delivers punishing death metal from the small-town Thuringian countryside.
Rest in Peace is a technical thrash metal band from Geroldswil, Switzerland, formed in 2011 and delivering precision-driven thrash in the Swiss German underground. The band channels complex riffing and tight arrangements in the tradition of classic technical thrash.
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