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Raging Fate is a power metal band from Karlskoga, Sweden, active since 2016. The band channels the melodic and anthemic side of heavy metal with soaring arrangements and high-energy compositions.
Raging Fire is a heavy metal band from Murcia in southeastern Spain, formed in 2015. The band delivers traditional heavy metal from the Iberian Mediterranean coast.
Raging Rectum Renegades is a death metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden, formed in 2011. Their album 'Rectalbum' blends brutal death metal and deathcore with dark humor and absurdist themes, written and recorded as a DIY project by members Gorebert and Senneth.
Raging Rob is a thrash metal project from Düsseldorf, Germany, active since 2008. The project delivers high-speed thrash metal from the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan area, one of Europe's largest urban centers.
Thrash metal band from Santo André, Portugal, formed in 2025. Their approach delivers classic thrash from the Alentejo coast.
Raging Sloth is a sludge and doom metal trio from Munich, Germany, formed in 2018 and featuring Max on bass and vocals, Mischa on guitar, and Jonas on drums. Self-describing their sound as 'heavy dystopian sounds in the realm of sludge and doom metal,' their releases include The Descent EP and the track Event Horizon.
Raging Speedhorn is a hardcore/sludge metal band from Corby in Northamptonshire, England, with renewed activity from 2019. The band delivers punishing sludge-hardcore from the East Midlands steel town.
Raging Steel is a thrash metal band from Umeå, Sweden, active since 2010. Their discography includes 'Guilty As Charged,' 'Beyond The Perdition,' and a self-titled album, delivering aggressive Scandinavian thrash with mosh-ready intensity.
Raging War is a thrash metal band from Brusque and Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, formed in 2016 as the successor to Monster Truck, a group the members had run since 2005. Their self-titled debut album, recorded at Tobias Blues Studios in Brusque across 2016 and 2017, was released on June 6, 2018, and spans ten tracks including "Third World," "Enforced System," and "Bastard Dogs."
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