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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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No Cross No Crown (2018)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Gothic/doom/death metal band from Rome, Italy, active since 2013. Their approach blends three dark metal genres into richly atmospheric music from the Eternal City.
Italian black metal project formed in 2025. The project delivers raw, hostile black metal.
Ravishing is a death/black metal band from Svendborg on the island of Funen in Denmark, active since 2011. The band delivers extreme metal from the scenic southern Danish coastal town.
Ravn is a pagan/stoner metal and rock band from Alençon in Normandy, France, formed in 2020. Named from the Old Norse word for 'raven,' the band blends pagan themes with stoner metal heaviness.
Progressive death/black/sludge metal band from Pomerania, Poland, formed in 2024. Their ambitious four-genre approach pushes extreme metal into progressive territory from the Baltic coast.
Ravnesort is a black metal band from Copenhagen, Denmark, formed in 2012. Named after the Danish words for 'raven black,' the band channels atmospheric black metal from the Danish capital.
Black metal project from Lillehammer, Norway, active since 2017. Their Norwegian name channels dark, Nordic black metal from the Winter Olympics town.
Ravnsang is a black metal band from Kamp-Lintfort in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, active since 2002. The project has maintained over two decades of presence in the Lower Rhine black metal underground.
Black metal project from Samara, Russia, active since 2012. Their Scandinavian-styled name channels Nordic-influenced black metal from the Volga city.
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