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Rarities 1991 - 2001 (2024)
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Raw Ensemble is a thrash metal band from Ulm in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, formed in 2015. The band delivers collective thrash metal fury from the Danube city on the Baden-Württemberg/Bavaria border.
Multi-genre Athens band with a complex evolution through technical death metal, thrash/progressive metal, and folk rock phases since 2020. Their stylistic range reflects ambitious creative vision.
Italian crossover thrash and hardcore punk band from Poviglio near Reggio Emilia, active since 2014. Their approach blends thrash metal's aggression with hardcore punk's confrontational energy from the Emilia-Romagna countryside.
Thrash 'n' roll and punk band from Kavala, Greece, active since 2014. Their approach blends thrash metal's aggression with rock 'n' roll swagger and punk energy.
Death metal band from Vicenza in the Veneto, Italy, active since 2018. Their approach delivers death metal from the Palladian city.
Rawattack is a thrash and death metal band from Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, formed in 2005. Their debut release Drunk Rawriders from Hell was issued on cassette in 2006 through Vampiria Records in a hand-numbered limited edition of 300 copies, and the nine-track recording established their raw, speed-driven sound with cuts including "The Night of the Cursed Hellhound" and "Hellish Mission."
Rawburst is a thrash/groove metal band from Calw-Stammheim in the Black Forest region of Baden-Württemberg, Germany, formed in 2023. The band fuses thrash speed with groove metal's rhythmic punch from the forested hills of southwestern Germany.
Senica raw black metal act formed in 2013, stripping the genre to its most primal essence from western Slovakia. Their lo-fi approach embraces the harshness central to raw black metal's underground ethos.
Detroit's Rawdogs have been delivering a hard-knuckled blend of heavy metal and hard rock since 2015, with the Motor City's no-nonsense working-class grit baked into every track. They're the kind of band built for bars and clubs, playing loud and mean for an audience that doesn't need anything fancy.
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