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Rapsodia is a heavy metal band from Barcelona, Spain, formed in 2013. The band delivers traditional heavy metal from the Catalan capital's thriving metal scene.
Rapsöd is a thrash metal and crossover band from Jihlava in the Czech-Moravian Highlands, active since 2008 and blending thrash aggression with punk-infused crossover energy. The band contributes to the Vysočina Region's underground metal and punk scene.
Minneapolis's Raptor Claw arrived in 2014 with a black/thrash blueprint that channels both the savagery of first-wave black metal and the pit-ready drive of crossover thrash. In a city with a deep and diverse metal underground, they carve their niche through sheer velocity and cold riffing.
Raptor King is a sludge metal band from Boulogne-Billancourt near Paris, France, formed in 2015. The band delivers heavy, corroded sludge metal from the Parisian suburbs.
Formed in Vienna in January 2015 after guitarist Gerhard Kollmann recruited his daughter Lisa on drums, Raptor200 plays old-school heavy metal at a characteristically fast clip — the '200' in their name stands for 200 bpm. Their approach is deliberately direct and stripped-down, channeling the lighthearted aggression of classic 1980s heavy metal.
Raptore was founded in 2012 in La Plata by vocalist and guitarist Nico Cattoni, who relocated to Barcelona in 2018 and rebuilt the band with guitarist Jamie Killhead, bassist Cristian Blade, and drummer Ángel Smolski. The band released their debut album Rage N' Fever in 2016 on Total Desaster Productions, followed by Blackfire (2022) and Renaissance (2024) on German label Dying Victims Productions. During their South American years they opened for Exciter and Enforcer, and their sound draws comparisons to classic acts such as Liege Lord and Chastain.
Raptores is a thrash metal band from Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, formed in 2010. They released their debut EP Forgotten Is Not Dead in September 2010 and followed it with the full-length Age of Fear in May 2012 on Genocidio Records, a ten-track album that incorporates thrash, death metal, and traditional heavy metal influences.
Rapture is a death metal band from Munich, Germany, formed in 2015 and delivering unrelenting death metal from Bavaria's capital. The band contributes to Munich's diverse extreme metal scene alongside numerous sludge, doom, and black metal acts.
Raptvre is a Cologne-based black/death metal duo formed in February 2018 by Kirill Gromada (also of Ayahuasca and Pripjat) and Stefan Braunschmidt of Shitshifter and Nvrvd. Self-described as 'the ugly yet ambitious love child' of its founders, the project explores the abyssal depths of black, death, and progressive metal with a dissonant and abrasive twist.
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