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Rile is a thrash metal band from Dresden, the capital of Saxony in Germany, formed in 2022. The band delivers aggressive thrash from one of eastern Germany's most culturally significant cities.
Thrash/death metal band from Terralba in Sardinia's Oristano province, active since 2007. Nearly two decades of extreme metal from the Sardinian countryside.
Rimfrost is a Danish black metal project formed in 2019. Named after the Nordic word for hoarfrost, the project delivers cold, atmospheric black metal.
Out of Lawrence, Kansas, Rimjob have been weaponizing the grindcore/death metal collision since 2016 with a relentless, economical brutality. Their songs are short, vicious, and deliberately stripped of any pretense — pure aggression delivered at maximum velocity. Despite operating in a college town better known for indie rock, they've built a reputation in underground extreme metal circles for uncompromising nastiness.
Rimmersgard is a folk metal and neofolk band from Mildenau in the Erzgebirge mountains of Saxony, Germany, active since 1997. Named after a realm from Tad Williams' Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn fantasy series, the band has delivered nearly three decades of folk-infused metal from the Ore Mountains.
Rimruna is a black metal band from Berlin, Germany, formed in 2012. The band channels atmospheric black metal from the German capital's diverse extreme metal underground.
Rimthurs is a black metal band from Hudiksvall, Sweden, active since 2018. Their album 'Gravskrift' explores the deepest depths of isolation and eternal death across nearly an hour of dark, nihilistic Swedish black metal.
Reykjavik progressive metal and rock act formed in 2015, crafting ambitious compositions from the edge of the Arctic Circle. Their cerebral approach channels the expansive Icelandic landscape through progressive metal's structural complexity.
Ringhorne is a black metal project from Sweden, active since 2014. Their album 'En stig fördömd' delivers atmospheric black metal with evocative Scandinavian-influenced compositions rooted in the Nordic tradition.
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