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Divine (2024)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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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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Progressive metal band from Lisbon, Portugal, formed in 2020. Their approach delivers technically ambitious compositions from the Portuguese capital.
Reveria is a power metal band from Umeå, Sweden, formed in 2020. The band brings melodic power metal to the northern Swedish city better known for its hardcore and punk scenes.
Reverorum ib Malacht is a black metal project from Uppsala, Sweden, founded in 2006. The project is known for its unorthodox and esoteric approach to black metal, creating dense, ritualistic soundscapes that stand apart from conventional genre boundaries.
Ankara atmospheric black metal project formed in 2018, layering contemplative textures over black metal's aggressive foundation. Their expansive approach bridges raw intensity and atmospheric beauty.
Progressive/melodic death metal band from London, formed in 2020. Their approach blends progressive complexity with melodic death metal's emotional intensity from the UK capital.
Revert is a French heavy metal band formed in 2019. The band delivers traditional heavy metal from the French underground.
Sunol, California's Reverted have been pursuing no-frills death metal since 2011, operating out of the East Bay's unpretentious underground with a sound that favors density and heaviness over technical showmanship. Their approach is old-school at its core — crushing, mid-paced death metal with enough groove to keep the head moving and enough filth to satisfy death metal purists. Fifteen years of activity have sharpened their approach to a brutal point.
Revetreth is a Belarusian black metal project formed in 2019, operating in the raw and atmospheric corners of the genre. Details on the project remain sparse, reflecting an intentionally obscure presence typical of underground Eastern European black metal.
Revigator is a death/thrash metal band from Sweden, formed in 2020. Their album 'Medieval' channels a nostalgic late-80s/early-90s thrash and proto-death metal feel with influences from Slayer, Kreator, and Death while forging its own identity.
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