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Rytual is a thrash/death metal band from Angoulême in southwestern France, formed in 2024. The band delivers aggressive thrash-death from the Charente department.
Ryujin is a Japanese heavy metal trio from Hokkaido, founded as Suicide Heaven by brothers Ryoji and Shuji Shinomoto in Sapporo in 2009 and later renamed GYZE before adopting the name Ryujin in January 2023. The band pioneered what they call 'samurai metal,' fusing melodic death and power metal structures with traditional Japanese instruments including shamisen, erhu, and dragon flute, alongside themes drawn from Japanese mythology and feudal history. Their 2024 self-titled debut under Napalm Records, produced by Trivium's Matt Heafy who also contributed guest vocals, marked the band's breakthrough into the international metal market.
Ryuketsu is a blackened heavy metal and punk project from Finland, formed in 2019. The project fuses blackened metal with punk energy, adding a Japanese-named act to the Finnish metal underground.
Ryvelion are a Thrash Metal band from Pitalito, Huila, Colombia, formed in 2014. They released the EP "Desgracia y destrucción" in 2021 and their debut full-length "Rebelión de los condenados" in 2023, recorded and mixed at Pagan Studio in Pitalito, with lyrical themes encompassing war, social issues, and metal itself.
Ryvelion are a Thrash Metal band from Pitalito, Huila, Colombia, formed in 2014. They released the EP "Desgracia y destrucción" in 2021 and their debut full-length "Rebelión de los condenados" in 2023, recorded and mixed at Pagan Studio in Pitalito, with lyrical themes encompassing war, social issues, and metal itself.
Liepaja folk/melodic death metal act formed in 2022, blending Baltic folk melodies with death metal aggression from Latvia's western coast. Their fusion approach connects traditional heritage with extreme metal power.
RZMNR is a three-piece stoner/doom metal instrumental band from Antwerp, Belgium, formed in 2016. Their self-titled debut album — five heavy, sludge-laden jams each named for one of Tolkien's five Istari wizards written in Middle-Earth languages — was praised for its cohesive flow and riff-driven craftsmanship.
RØRY is the rock-facing project of English singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer Roxanne Emery, whose later-career reinvention has moved through pop punk, hard rock, alternative rock, and emotionally direct songwriting. After earlier work under her own name and years writing across pop and electronic music, she began releasing as RØRY in the early 2020s, bringing a sharper guitar identity and a confessional voice to songs about grief, addiction, neurodivergence, recovery, age, and self-repair. The debut album Restoration presented that identity clearly: big choruses, polished modern rock production, pop punk urgency, and lyrics that treat survival as complicated rather than triumphant. RØRY fits accepted scope through pop punk, hard rock, and alternative rock, especially within the current wave of solo artists who use heavy guitars and emo-pop structure without forming a conventional band. Her songs often work because they are direct and unguarded, placing autobiographical detail inside accessible hooks. The music can be glossy, but the emotional register is raw. RØRY's significance comes from turning a second act into the point of the project, arguing through sound that rock music can carry adult damage, humor, and resilience without pretending to be young.
Norwegian black metal project active since 2017. The project delivers cold, hostile black metal.
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