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Bestial war death/black metal band from Belém, Pará, Brazil, formed in 2020, releasing the full-length Infernal River of Blood in June 2021 and the demo compilation Return to the Dark Ages later that year, both recorded at GoreZone Home Studio in Belém. The band has accumulated eight releases on Bandcamp spanning demos, live recordings, and studio material.
Brutal death metal band from Leicester, England, active since 2016. Their approach delivers punishing brutality from the East Midlands.
Portland, Oregon's Rotting Sky has spent over a decade building suffocating soundscapes where funeral doom's glacial pace meets the bleak atmospherics of black metal and ambient drone. Their music is slow, cavernous, and oppressive — less concerned with riffs than with the weight of sustained decay.
Sludge/death metal/grindcore band from Worcester, England, with roots dating to 2005. Two decades of triple-genre extreme metal from the West Midlands represent exceptional underground longevity.
Rotör is a Finnish heavy/speed metal band active since 2001. Over two decades of high-velocity metal make them veterans of the Finnish speed metal underground.
Roudansirppi is a Finnish black metal project formed in 2018. Named from Finnish words evoking frozen landscapes, the project channels atmospheric black metal.
Texas act Rougarou, formed in 2024, takes their name from the Cajun werewolf legend and channels it into raw black metal laced with folk elements — an unsettling mix that roots their sound in regional myth and primitive riffing. It's an early but sharp-edged project with a distinctly American folkloric slant.
Rough Diamond is a heavy metal band from Stockholm, Sweden, formed in 2014. The band plays traditional heavy metal in the classic Scandinavian style from the Swedish capital.
Rough Justice was a crossover thrash/hardcore band from Aalst, Belgium, whose 1988 demo tape 'Pink Elephants in Yellow Trees' captured the raw energy of the Belgian underground HC/thrash scene of that decade. The band featured Koen Taeleman on vocals, Piet Marcoen on guitar, Manu Cambier on bass, and Joost Van Den Broeck on drums.
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