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Rotting Bowels is a death metal band from Thuringia, Germany, formed in 2015. The band channels visceral death metal from the forested central German state.
Legendary Greek extreme metal institution from Athens, active since the late 1980s and releasing through Season of Mist since 2006. Rotting Christ pioneered the Hellenic black metal sound and evolved through melodic black metal and gothic metal phases, becoming one of the most internationally recognized metal acts from Greece.
Formed in 2020 somewhere in the southwestern United States, Rotting Coffin deals in raw, primitive black metal with a deliberately obscure and desolate character fitting the region's harsh terrain. Their approach leans into the underground with minimal production and an atmosphere of corrosion.
Dallas death/thrash metal. Obscure but vicious late-80s Texas extremity.
Rotting Demise is a death metal band from North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, formed in 2019. The band delivers uncompromising death metal from Germany's most populous state.
Rotting Empire is a death metal band from Ingolstadt in Bavaria, Germany, established in 2000 and combining 'numerous facets of harder styles of music' with death metal as the foundation. Their releases Buried In The Past and Sui Generis incorporate harmonies, melodies, and groove elements into a diverse death metal framework over two and a half decades of activity.
Rotting Eternity is a German black metal project formed in 2023, exploring themes of decay and endlessness through atmospheric black metal. The project contributes to the prolific German black metal underground.
Rotting Faith is a brutal death metal band from Alençon in Normandy, France, active since 2012. The band channels relentless brutality from the Norman countryside.
Atmospheric black/death metal band from Thessaloniki, Greece, with roots dating to 2001. Nearly a quarter century of atmospheric extreme metal from Greece's second city.
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