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Reflecting Black is a progressive metal band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2021. The band delivers intricate progressive compositions from the Finnish capital.
Doom/death metal band from Oryol, Russia, active since 2017. Their approach combines doom's crushing weight with death metal's ferocity from the central Russian city.
Reflection of Misery was a black metal band from Managua, Nicaragua, active from 2020 until splitting up shortly after. The band released two full-lengths — Total Scorn of Life (2021) and Contranatura (2023) — along with the EP Communion with the Vile (2022), exploring themes of misanthropy, nihilism, and decadence. Tracks appeared on the Ataque de Metal Centroamericano compilation released by Nebiros Producciones in 2022.
Košice progressive metal act formed in 2012, crafting intricate compositions from Slovakia's second city in the east. Their cerebral approach channels progressive metal's structural complexity.
Reflections of Karma are an international Prague-based rock band built from Irish, Australian, and Czech musicians with deep experience across punk, crossover, hard rock, and alternative scenes. Established in 2024, the group brings together vocalist Travis O'Neill, guitarist Maťo Mišík, bassist and vocalist Joshua Stewart, and drummer Tomáš Hajíček Jr., creating a sound that leans on rock guitars, melodic hooks, and a live-band sense of force. Their early singles and debut album Venom & Velvet present a band interested in modern rock directness rather than nostalgia: big choruses, driving drums, rebellious energy, and enough grit to keep the polished moments from feeling weightless. Reflections of Karma fit accepted scope through hard rock and punk-adjacent alternative rock. Their songs often balance stadium-ready melody with rougher edges, using personal tension, social unease, and emotional survival as recurring fuel. Because the members come from different national and musical backgrounds, the band has a slightly hybrid feel, not tied to one local scene even while Prague functions as its base. Reflections of Karma sound like musicians who have already spent years learning how clubs work, now applying that experience to concise, energetic rock songs.
Graz duo Andreas Heller and David Reumüller have driven Reflector since 1997, moving fluidly between sludge, doom, noise, and alternative metal without anchoring to any one direction. Released on Rock Is Hell Records, Noise Appeal Records, and Interstellar Records, their 2012 album The Heritage stands as their most recent full-length statement.
Reflet Crépusculaire is a raw black metal project from France, formed in 2022. Named 'Twilight Reflection' in French, the project channels cold, lo-fi black metal.
Reflex is a heavy metal band from Örnsköldsvik, Sweden, formed in 2021. The northern Swedish outfit channels classic heavy metal energy from the same coastal city that spawned several notable Swedish bands.
Columbus, Ohio's Reflex Machine have been bending sludge and post-metal through experimental and noise rock frameworks since 2016, creating music that resists easy categorization. Rooted in Columbus's notably adventurous underground, they pursue an abrasive, unsettled sound that values texture and dissonance as much as heaviness.
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