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The Mountain Of Gold (2018)
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Death Atlas (2019)
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Playlist: The Very Best of Corrosion of Conformity (2010)
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York-based three-piece fronted by guitarist and vocalist Cat Redfern, whose soaring, almost folksy vocals contrast dramatically with hefty blues-based sludgy riffs. Influenced by Soundgarden, Sleep, and Pantera, their sound reveals rich seams of jazz and prog beneath the stoner metal surface.
Redgrin is a death metal band from Kaiserslautern in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, formed in 2019. The band delivers uncompromising death metal from the Palatinate region of western Germany.
RedHook build modern rock songs like controlled collisions. Emmy Mack's vocals sit at the center, moving from clean pop lift to snarl, rap-like phrasing, and cathartic confession while the band shifts around her through nu metal bounce, pop-punk speed, electronic accents, and heavy alternative riffs. The Bad Decisions EP introduced their taste for bright hooks inside chaotic arrangements, but Postcard from a Living Hell gave the project its first full narrative shape. That album turns trauma, rage, humor, and survival into a frantic sequence of heavy-pop detonations, with songs that can jump from polished melody to breakdown weight without warning. Mutation pushes the shapeshifting further, using sci-fi and horror imagery to frame questions of identity, desire, and mental health while keeping the sound restless and high-impact. Craig Wilkinson's guitar work and the rhythm section's punch make the songs feel physical even when the choruses are glossy. RedHook's personality comes from that contradiction: the music is colorful and immediate, but the emotional content is raw, and the band's best hooks feel like they are being used to fight through the noise.
Redhorn is an atmospheric black/death metal band from Tornio at the Finnish-Swedish border, formed in 2019. The band channels extreme metal from the northernmost reaches of the Gulf of Bothnia.
ReDimoni is a thrash metal band from Barcelona, Spain, active since 2005. Two decades of thrash from the Catalan capital establish them as veterans of the Barcelona metal scene.
Black/death metal band from Goleniów in northwestern Poland, formed in 2020. Their Latin name, meaning 'brought back to life,' accompanies extreme metal from the West Pomeranian town.
Redjeven is a doom/sludge metal and ambient studio project from Hildesheim in Lower Saxony, Germany, formed in 2020 by musicians Waldseel and Niese. Their 2020 debut Pulsschlag der Elemente combines distorted doom and drone metal with industrial and grind influences, featuring cover artwork containing approximately 2,600 illustrated heads created by artist Tilo Eichhoff.
Melodic heavy metal and hard rock project from São Luís, Maranhão, founded in 2019 by guitarist and producer Igor Tavares. The project released its debut EP About Revenge on October 21, 2019.
Redkey is a power metal band from Wolfsburg in Lower Saxony, Germany, formed in 2022. The band delivers melodic power metal from the automotive city best known as the home of Volkswagen.
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