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Let You Go (2024)
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The Bestiary (2025)
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One Day Closer to the End of the World (2019)
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Halo (2017)
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Ran is an industrial groove/death metal band from London, England, formed in 2015. The band fuses mechanical industrial rhythms with groove and death metal from the UK capital.
Rance is an atmospheric/raw black metal project from Paris, France, formed in 2017. The project channels cold, atmospheric black metal from the French capital's diverse extreme metal underground.
Ranch Destroyer is a sludge and stoner metal band from Minsk, Belarus, formed in 2018, blending southern metal heaviness with occult and fantasy themes alongside flashes of social commentary. The band self-releases their music independently through Bandcamp, operating in the Belarusian underground metal scene.
Heavy metal act from the village of Galder in North Brabant, active since 2009 and delivering classic metal energy from rural Netherlands. Their traditional approach channels the timeless power of heavy metal.
Rancid Cadaver is a death metal band from Glasgow, Scotland, formed in 2022. The band delivers aggressive death metal from Scotland's largest city.
Rancid Flesh is a goregrind band from Fortaleza, Ceará, formed in 2009. Their debut release Festering Gore... Repulsive Stench (2009) was pressed in a limited edition of 100 copies on Bidule Mandibule Records, and their 2012 follow-up Pathological Zombie Carnage — a 25-track album jointly released through Carnificina Records, Cianeto Discos, Terceiro Mundo Chaos Discos, and Rapture Records — was limited to 1,000 CDs.
Rancid Pus is a goregrind/death metal project from Glamsbjerg on the island of Funen in Denmark, formed in 2020. The project delivers visceral extreme music from the Danish countryside.
Rancid Rimjob Rampage is a blackened post-metal trio from Oberhausen in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, formed in 2018 and consisting of B. on guitars and vocals, H. on drums, and U. on bass, synth noise, and vocals. Their 2023 album To Live is to Piss in the Wind was written under what they describe as 'the result of the pandemic, war and depression; personal defeats and general weltschmerz.'
Rancid Taint Discharge is a brutal death metal band from Turku, Finland, formed in 2020. The band delivers punishing, uncompromising brutality from Finland's former medieval capital.
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