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Heavy metal band from Rome, Italy, formed in 2025. Their approach delivers traditional heavy metal from the Italian capital.
Rocky & The Sweden are a Japanese hardcore punk and D-beat band from Tokyo, formed in the mid-1990s with members who previously played in Bastard, Systematic Death, and Vivisick. Built around a straightforward, pummeling hardcore sound and cannabis-themed lyrical content, the band has released a string of records since 1997 and remain active in the international D-beat underground.
San Diego's Rod of Correction have been running crossover thrash into hardcore territory since 2018, combining the pit-ready energy of West Coast punk with the riffing attack of thrash metal in the tradition of bands like D.R.I. and Municipal Waste. They bring Southern California sun and aggression to a style that has never gone out of fashion among the mosh-inclined.
Heavy metal band from Villasor near Cagliari, Sardinia, formed in 2023. Their approach delivers traditional heavy metal from the Sardinian countryside.
Rod1313 is a progressive metal project from Uppsala, Sweden, formed in 2019. The project explores complex musical structures and intricate compositions from the university city of Uppsala.
Roddone is an experimental sludge band from Minsk, Belarus, blending industrial metal, dark ambient, post-metal, and hardcore elements since 2013. Their 2020 album Magnitude is a self-recorded and self-produced affair featuring members Anton Berezovskiy on guitar, Nick Baryskevich on bass and lyrics, and Anton Yeroma on ambient effects.
Rodent Epoch is a black metal band from Oulu in northern Finland, formed in 2018. The band delivers cold, misanthropic black metal from the Finnish north.
Rodha is a stoner/sludge metal band with hardcore influences from Hamburg, Germany, active since 2012. Their releases Welter Through The Ashes and RAW deliver heavy, corroded riffs from the Hamburg underground.
Miami guitarist and bandleader Rodrigo Herrera launched this project in 2023 at the intersection of progressive and groove metal, drawing on South Florida's rich Latin musical culture and fusing it with the polyrhythmic complexity of progressive metal and the locked-in heaviness of groove. It's a project defined by instrumental sophistication and a clear sense of rhythmic identity.
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