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Recrehate is a death/thrash metal band from Recklinghausen in the northern Ruhr area of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, formed in 2016. The band delivers aggressive death-thrash from one of the Ruhr's most densely populated industrial cities.
Recrucify is a black/death metal band from Lima, Peru, active from 2008 until splitting up around 2018. Originally operating under the name Bestia Negra in 2007, they rebranded to Recrucify the following year and built their sound around Satanic and blasphemous themes rooted in South American black metal tradition. Their discography includes the releases Grimorium Verum and Awakening of the Satan's Kommand.
Brutal death metal band from São José dos Campos, São Paulo, formed in 2000 by guitarist Alexandre Augusto, drummer Leonardo Mancilha, and bassist/vocalist Luiz Jr. Their debut album Penetrating in Your Abdominal Cavity, self-produced and released in September 2012, was followed a decade later by Neuropsychological Dominance of the Unconscious (2022).
Rectal Devastation is a slam/brutal death metal and goregrind band from West Yorkshire, England, active since 2011. The band delivers extreme slam and goregrind from the industrial north.
Goregrind band from Bydgoszcz, Poland, formed in 2025. Their deliberately crude name accompanies extreme goregrind from the Kuyavian-Pomeranian city.
Rectal Implosion is a technical/brutal death metal band from Leeds in West Yorkshire, England, formed in 2014. The band delivers precision brutality from the major city of northern England.
Goregrind and brutal death metal band from Naaldwijk, the Netherlands, with roots dating to 2004. Two decades of deliberately grotesque extreme metal from the South Holland greenhouse district.
Kyiv death metal and grindcore act formed in 2020, delivering rapid-fire extremity with characteristically irreverent naming from Ukraine's capital. Their grinding assault channels the most punishing qualities of both genres.
Rectal Terror is a brutal deathcore act from Minsk, Belarus, emerging in 2025 as part of the city's growing extreme metal underground. The project channels punishing breakdowns and guttural vocals characteristic of the genre's most uncompromising strain.
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