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Ranterío is a groove metal band from Buenos Aires who released their debut album Agonía independently in 2016, followed by a second album, Hoguera de Miserias, around 2020. The band has been a fixture of the Buenos Aires underground metal circuit, including an appearance at Heresy Fest at The Other Place venue in the city.
Ranzau is a raw black metal project from Germany, formed in 2024 and committed to the lo-fi, unpolished aesthetic of underground black metal. The project strips the genre to its most primitive and abrasive essentials.
Ranzer is a death/thrash metal and crust band from Kassel in central Germany, formed in 2023. The band merges the velocity of thrash and death metal with the gritty energy of crust punk from the northern Hessian underground.
Istanbul black metal act formed in 2009, channeling raw darkness and aggressive intensity from Turkey's largest city. Their sustained presence speaks to the vitality of the Turkish black metal underground.
Experimental/death metal/metalcore band from Rzeszów, Poland, active since 2013. Their approach pushes extreme metal into experimental territory from the southeastern Polish city.
California's Raped by Lucifer have been grinding out a filthy hybrid of death metal and grindcore since 2014, leaning into the genre's most confrontational traditions with short, savage blasts. The project sits squarely in the American death-grind underground, where extremity of sound matches extremity of name.
Raped by Pigs is a brutal death metal band from Lima, Peru, formed in 2009 in the Breña district. Their sound draws from American-style slam and brutal death metal, with lyrical themes of torture, perversion, and horror. The band has released multiple recordings including the albums Squealing to the New World (2014) and Mental Diseases and Congenital Malformations (2019).
Raped by Pigs is a brutal death metal band from Lima, Peru, formed in 2009 in the Breña district. Their sound draws from American-style slam and brutal death metal, with lyrical themes of torture, perversion, and horror. The band has released multiple recordings including the albums Squealing to the New World (2014) and Mental Diseases and Congenital Malformations (2019).
Raped Cadaver is a death metal band from Berlin, Germany, formed in 2025 and representing the newest wave of extreme metal emerging from the German capital. The project channels uncompromising death metal brutality.
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