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Regarde les Hommes Tomber is a sludge/post-black metal band from Nantes in western France, active since 2013. Named after the French phrase 'Watch Men Fall,' the band has become one of the most recognized acts in the French post-black metal scene.
Regen is a heavy metal and hard rock band from Lanškroun in the Pardubice Region of eastern Bohemia, Czech Republic, formed in 2021. The band delivers classic-leaning heavy metal and hard rock from the smaller Czech cities.
Regent is a death/thrash metal band from Bad Freienwalde in Brandenburg, Germany, formed in 2025. The project channels aggressive death-thrash from the rural northeastern German countryside east of Berlin.
Regent Death is a black metal project from Madrid, Spain, formed in 2023. The project delivers dark, atmospheric black metal from the Spanish capital's growing extreme metal community.
Regentvm is a black metal project from Schleswig-Holstein in northern Germany, formed in 2018. The project delivers atmospheric black metal from Germany's northernmost federal state, between the North and Baltic seas.
Black metal project from Drammen, Norway, active since 2005. Two decades of black metal from the Buskerud city west of Oslo.
Regina Venenosa is a black/doom metal band from Folgoso de la Ribera in the province of León, Spain, active since 2012. Named 'Poisonous Queen' in Latin, the band channels dark, oppressive doom and black metal from the mountainous Bierzo region of northwestern Spain.
Progressive metal band from the Vila do Conde/Póvoa de Varzim area, Portugal, formed in 2023. Their approach delivers technically ambitious compositions from the northern Portuguese coast.
Manchester black metal project formed in 2017, operating within the northwestern English city's growing extreme metal underground. Their sound channels raw intensity and atmospheric darkness from one of the UK's most musically fertile cities.
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