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Ratlord is a death metal band from Düsseldorf, Germany, formed in 2013 and operating in the Rhine-Ruhr extreme metal underground. The band delivers aggressive death metal from one of Germany's most populous metropolitan areas.
Emerging from Malvern, Pennsylvania in 2019, Ratlorde deal in raw, minimalist black metal that feels appropriately subterranean and isolated — music conjured in the margins of suburban sprawl outside Philadelphia. The project carries an aura of pestilent misanthropy that fits the name perfectly.
Rato Raro is a grindcore/death metal/punk band from Palencia in Castile and León, Spain, active since 2003. Named 'Strange Rat' in Spanish, the band has maintained over two decades of extreme crossover from the northern Castilian plateau.
Ratos de Porão (Portuguese for "Basement Rats") formed in São Paulo in November 1981 and went on to release Crucificados pelo Sistema in 1984, the first hardcore punk LP issued by a Latin American band. Vocalist João Gordo joined for that debut and has remained the band's frontman ever since; their 1987 album Cada dia mais sujo e agressivo is widely credited as the first Brazilian crossover thrash record of note, and the band has since released more than fourteen studio albums while continuing to tour South America, North America, Europe, and Asia.
Rato Triste is a sludge noise band based in Prague, Czech Republic, formed in 2019 and self-describing their sound simply as 'sludge noise.' Their catalog includes a split tape with Amusia and multiple EPs, culminating in the release Choked by my own dreams.
Ratpile is a slam/brutal death metal band from Lancashire in northwest England, formed in 2019. The band delivers punishing slam and brutal death metal from the industrial north.
Ratrotten is a black/thrash metal band from the Uettingen/Thüngersheim area in Lower Franconia, Bavaria, formed in 2025. The project fuses the raw fury of black metal with the speed and riff-driven attack of thrash from rural northern Bavaria.
Rats is a sludge/stoner metal band from Kingston upon Hull in East Yorkshire, England, active since 2010. Over a decade of heavy sludge from the Humber estuary port city.
Death metal/hardcore band from Moscow, Russia, formed in 2023. Their approach blends death metal heaviness with hardcore energy from the Russian capital.
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