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Death 'n' roll/stoner metal band from Toruń, Poland, active since 2018. Their approach blends death metal's heaviness with rock 'n' roll swagger and stoner grooves from the medieval copernican city.
Heavy metal/hard rock band from Athens, Greece, active since 2015. Their approach delivers classic heavy metal and hard rock from the Greek capital.
San Antonio's Rusty Nails thread stoner metal's hazy riff worship with grunge grit, drawing on both genres' working-class rawness to produce a sound that feels lived-in and deliberately unglamorous since 2017.
Rusty Nutsy is a thrash/speed metal band from Chalon-sur-Saône in Burgundy, France, formed in 2023. The band channels classic speed-thrash from the Burgundian wine country.
Gothenburg doom metal act formed in 2018, delivering crushing heaviness from Sweden's melodeath capital in a decidedly slower direction. Their ponderous approach channels doom metal's most weighty traditions.
Los Angeles death metal act Rut take a hardcore-influenced approach — their Bandcamp handle nods to it directly — combining the blunt force of death metal with the short-fused aggression of the HC underground since 2016.
Rutabaga is a melodic death metal/metalcore band from Khabarovsk in Russia's Far East, active since 2012. The group blends melodic death metal sensibilities with metalcore breakdowns, drawing from the aggressive musical traditions of the Russian extreme metal underground.
Ruthanas is a black metal project from Hirschberg in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, active since 2012. The project channels black metal from the Bergstrasse region on the western edge of the Odenwald forest.
Ruthless is a thrash/heavy metal band from Saxony, Germany, formed in 2020. The band delivers aggressive thrash and heavy metal from the eastern German state with deep roots in extreme music.
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