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Ravenia is a symphonic metal and film score project from Finland, formed in 2014. The project bridges the gap between symphonic metal and cinematic orchestral composition.
Black metal project from Rybinsk, Russia, active since 2017. The project channels dark black metal from the Volga river city.
Ravenland is a gothic metal band from São Paulo formed in 1997 by Dewindson Wolfheart, who has led the group across multiple active periods separated by a hiatus from 2003 to 2006. Their debut full-length ...And a Crow Brings Me Back was recorded at Fusão VM&T Studios in Cotia over roughly a year and a half and released in July 2009 on Free Mind Records, followed by a second album, When the Night Falls Within Us, in 2015.
Ravenlight is a symphonic power metal band from Belfast, Northern Ireland, formed in 2018. The band delivers orchestral, epic power metal from the Northern Irish capital.
Ravenoir is a melodic and atmospheric death metal band from Brno, Czech Republic, formed in 2022. The project brings sweeping melodic passages and dense atmospherics to the Moravian capital's metal scene.
Pottschach, Lower Austria thrash metal veterans formed in 1988, Ravenous released their debut full-length Book of Covetous Souls in 1991 — raw, technical thrash drawing comparisons to Sepultura's Arise-era work — before disbanding in 1994. After a two-decade hiatus they reunited and released their long-awaited second album The Fourth Decade in September 2025 via Iron Shield Records.
Ravenpath is a melodic death metal band from Zwickau in Saxony, Germany, formed in 2015, having evolved from earlier symphonic death/black metal roots into a more melodic death metal approach. The band's stylistic progression reflects a refining of their sound within the eastern German metal underground.
Ravens Creed is a death metal band from London, England, active since 2011. The band delivers aggressive death metal from the UK capital.
A Maryland depressive black metal and ambient project that emerged in 2025, Ravens Hike explores the bleaker end of the DSBM spectrum — isolation, atmosphere, and drone woven into slow-burning darkness. With their ambient influence, the project reaches beyond pure aggression into introspective, texturally rich territory.
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