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Let You Go (2024)
Featured Doom Metal Album
The Bestiary (2025)
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One Day Closer to the End of the World (2019)
05/11 @ WorkPlay Theatre, Birmingham
Featured Metalcore Album
Halo (2017)
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Ram is a heavy metal band from East Sussex on the south coast of England, formed in 2015. The band delivers traditional British heavy metal from the Sussex countryside.
Ramage Inc. is an atmospheric progressive metal/rock band from Edinburgh, Scotland, active since 2004. Over two decades of atmospheric progressive metal make them one of the veteran acts of the Scottish metal scene.
Ramayana is a heavy metal and hard rock band from Hradec Králové in eastern Bohemia, Czech Republic, formed in 2016. Named after the ancient Sanskrit epic, the band channels traditional heavy metal energy from one of the Czech Republic's major cultural centers.
Thrash metal band from Bærum, Norway, active since 2014. Their approach delivers thrash aggression from the Oslo suburb that famously birthed Norwegian black metal.
Rambuk is a thrash/death metal band from Copenhagen, Denmark, formed in 2019. The band channels aggressive death-thrash from the Scandinavian capital's diverse metal underground.
Martin black/pagan metal act formed in 2015, channeling pre-Christian Slovak traditions through black metal's aggressive framework from central Slovakia. Their approach connects extreme metal intensity to deep cultural heritage.
Black metal project from Krasnodar, Russia, formed in 2019. The project delivers black metal from southern Russia.
Ramesses is a sludge/doom/death metal band from Wimborne Minster in Dorset, England, active since 2018. The band channels crushing, multi-layered extreme doom from the rural English south coast.
Ramificator is a death metal band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2025. The project represents the newest wave of Finnish death metal emerging from the capital.
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