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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Free the Witch EP (2018)
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Rubén Picazo is a solo artist from Alicante, Spain, active since 2020, working across heavy metal, hard rock, and melodic black metal. The project's genre range from hard rock to black metal reflects an unusually versatile approach from the Levantine coast.
Rubén Álvarez is a heavy/power metal solo artist from Madrid, Spain, active since 2009. The project delivers virtuoso-driven heavy and power metal from the Spanish capital.
Roman heavy metal act with roots stretching back to 1996, representing one of the capital's longer-running traditional metal presences. Their three decades of classic metal craftsmanship speak to an enduring devotion to the genre.
Furious Thrash Metal from Santa Cruz, California (early); Texas (later).
Los Angeles-based Rude Awakening traces a path from traditional heavy and power metal into heavier, groove-driven territory, with a sound that has toughened and thickened over time without abandoning its melodic instincts. Formed in 2021, they carry forward the city's long tradition of hard-hitting commercial-adjacent metal.
Louisville, Kentucky's Rude Awakening is a straightforward thrash metal outfit formed in 2021, bringing the genre's hallmark speed and aggression to a city not typically associated with the style. They operate in the raw, no-frills mode of classic US thrash without heavy stylistic embellishment.
Freeport, Illinois's Rude Awakening is a heavy metal band formed in 2021, rooted in the genre's foundational sound — riff-driven, melodic, and built around the kind of direct songwriting that defined American heavy metal before subgenre fragmentation took hold.
New Orleans' Rude Awakening pulls from three of the heaviest currents in American metal — thrash, groove, and death — blending their distinct textures into a sound that is aggressive, swinging, and mean in the way the city seems to demand. Formed in 2021, they fit naturally into the NOLA heavy underground.
Rude Thing is a grindcore band from Palma on the island of Mallorca in Spain's Balearic Islands, formed in 2015. The band delivers extreme grindcore from the Mediterranean island paradise.
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