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Ragen is a metalcore band from France, formed in 2024. The band delivers heavy breakdowns and melodic passages from the French underground.
Heavy/power metal band from Athens, Greece, active since 2013. Their approach combines classic heavy metal with power metal's anthemic energy from the Greek capital.
Rageous Intent is a grindcore band from Madrid, Spain, active since 2012. The band delivers relentless blast beats and extreme aggression from the Spanish capital's punk and grind underground.
Ragequit is a doom metal band from Paris, France, formed in 2025. The band delivers crushing doom metal from the French capital.
Rager is a thrash metal band from Barcelona, Spain, formed in 2015. The band channels classic thrash metal energy from the Catalan capital's active metal scene.
The Hague melodic death metal act formed in 2014, weaving melodic sophistication through death metal's aggressive framework from the Dutch seat of government. Their approach carries the emotive range of the Scandinavian melodeath tradition.
Death/thrash metal act from the Alpine city of Aosta, active since 2008 and bringing aggressive riffing from Italy's smallest region. Their sustained output from the shadow of Mont Blanc speaks to the genre's reach into even Italy's most remote corners.
Raggradarh is a pagan black metal one-man project from Sandanski, Bulgaria, created by Erilyne in 2005, with themes encompassing paganism, nature, war, and Bulgarian national identity. Released primarily through Werewolf Promotion in small hand-numbered cassette editions, their discography includes 'IYI' (2009), 'Битка' (Battle, 2009), and a 2011 split with Vanyar.
Thrash metal band from Żory in Poland's Upper Silesia, active since 2015. Their approach delivers intense thrash from the Silesian industrial region.
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