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Undercover Scumbag (2018)
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A Stare Bound in Stone (2018)
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Of Stone, Wind, & Pillor (Remastered) (2021)
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Ivano-Frankivsk stoner metal act formed in 2019, delivering fuzz-drenched heaviness from the Carpathian foothills of western Ukraine. Their warm, groove-laden approach channels the hypnotic weight of the stoner tradition.
Red Eyes is a thrash metal band from the Amriswil/Bischofszell area in northeastern Switzerland, formed in 2014. The band delivers aggressive thrash metal rooted in the classic Bay Area and Teutonic traditions, operating within the Swiss German-speaking underground.
Red Fang are a stoner metal and sludge rock band from Portland, Oregon, formed in 2005 by guitarist Bryan Giles, bassist Aaron Beam, guitarist David Sullivan, and drummer John Sherman. The band built their reputation through energetic live performances and a string of wryly humorous music videos, releasing five studio albums and appearing on The Late Show with David Letterman in 2014 following the success of Whales and Leeches.
Red Flag Crew is a melodic death/folk metal band from Zaragoza in Aragon, Spain, active since 2014. The band merges melodic death metal aggression with folk metal melody from the Aragonese capital.
Red Flower was a heavy metal band from Maasmechelen, Limburg, Belgium, active from 1987 to 1991. They recorded and released a cassette demo during that period, leaving a modest but documented trace in the Belgian underground metal scene of the late 1980s.
Red Forest is a depressive black metal and ambient project from Valencia, Spain, active since 2014. The project channels melancholic, atmospheric black metal from the Mediterranean coast of eastern Spain.
Red Fountain is a psychedelic doom/stoner metal band from Alicante on the Costa Blanca of Spain, formed in 2024. The band delivers heavy, sun-baked psychedelic doom from the Levantine coast.
Melodic death metal/metalcore band from Komsomolsk-on-Amur in Russia's Far East, formed in 2020. Their approach bridges melodic death metal with metalcore from one of Russia's most remote cities.
Norwegian industrial/electronic metal band from Oslo, evolving from thrash metal origins into industrial and electronic territory since 2014. Their stylistic transformation reflects an increasingly mechanized, experimental approach.
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