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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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Thrash metal band from Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, formed in 2013, citing Exodus, Slayer, Kreator, and Tankard as primary influences. Their debut album Beer Revolution (2015), recorded at AML Studios and featuring cover artwork by Ed Repka, was followed by The Revolution Continues (2019).
Heavy metal/hard rock band from Nocera Inferiore near Salerno, Italy, formed in 2022. Their approach delivers classic heavy metal from the Campanian town.
Long Beach, California's Red River Massacre trade in sludge-soaked stoner metal that bakes in Southern California's sun-bleached intensity and the corrosive weight of the city's underground. Since 2018, they've pursued a slow, oppressive heaviness that owes as much to Southern sludge tradition as it does to desert-rock psychedelia.
Self-styled 'Neoclassical Fantasy Battle Metal' crew from Nottingham, led by Captain Davey Silver, merging pirate metal theatrics with Nordic folk melodies and neoclassical guitar virtuosity. Albums like 'Book of Legends' and 'To War' conjure a swashbuckling world of maritime adventure and fantasy warfare.
Red Sativa is a sludge/doom metal band from Marseille on the Mediterranean coast of France, formed in 2018. The band delivers crushing sludge and doom from the port city of Provence.
Stoner/doom metal/rock band from the Pleszew/Poznań area, Poland, active since 2014. Their approach delivers fuzz-drenched stoner doom from the Greater Poland region.
Red Season is a Finnish groove/thrash metal band formed in 2015. The band merges groove metal weight with thrash velocity from the Finnish underground.
Red Shift Overdrive is a blackened death metal band from Bordeaux in southwestern France, formed in 2024. The band delivers extreme metal from the wine capital of Aquitaine.
Belfast groove metal quintet formed in 2010, described as a stripped-down, black-shirted reaction to heavy music's gimmickry and mediocrity. Their EPs 'Devour' and 'Nausea' explored dark tales of war, dystopia, and science fiction before the band's eventual dissolution.
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