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The Bestiary (2025)
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Halo (2017)
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Atmospheric doom/death/post-metal band from Oslo, Norway, formed in 2019. Their ambitious three-genre approach delivers immersive, atmospheric extreme metal from the Norwegian capital.
Ratisha is a gothic metal/rock band from Durham in northeast England, formed in 2025. The band delivers dark, atmospheric gothic metal from the medieval cathedral city.
Heavy metal band from Stavanger, Norway, formed in 2020. Their approach delivers traditional heavy metal from Norway's oil city.
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.
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