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The Rain is a doom/black metal band from Bielefeld, Germany, formed in 2020. They merge doom metal's crushing weight with black metal's cold intensity.
Murfreesboro, Tennessee doom/stoner metal band formed in 2015, dealing in fuzz-drenched, Sabbath-worshipping heaviness built on crushing low-tuned riffs and powerful groove-oriented rhythms. Released through Ripple Music, their LP Looking for Today pairs psychedelic stoner rock atmosphere with the slower, heavier pulse of traditional doom metal, making no apologies for their deeply roots-minded approach.
Finnish rockers The Rasmus became an international sensation with 'In the Shadows' from their 2003 album 'Dead Letters,' a dark, brooding single that topped charts across Europe and became one of the most recognizable rock songs of the decade. Led by vocalist Lauri Ylonen's distinctive, melancholic delivery and the band's gothic-tinged alternative rock, The Rasmus have been one of Finland's biggest musical exports since the mid-1990s. Their 2022 Eurovision entry for Finland reintroduced them to a new generation, demonstrating the enduring appeal of their atmospheric, emotionally charged songwriting.
The Raven Inn is a heavy metal/hard rock band from Tallinn, Estonia, formed in 2022. They play classic heavy metal and hard rock from the Estonian capital.
The Reality is a thrash metal band from Kazincbarcika, Hungary, formed in 2015. They deliver aggressive thrash metal with sharp riffing and high-energy intensity.
The Reality Machine is a heavy metal band from Pori, Finland, formed in 2024. They play traditional heavy metal from the western Finnish coast.
The Red Chord formed in Revere, Massachusetts in 1999 and carved out a distinctive position in extreme metal by combining death metal brutality, grindcore velocity, and metallic hardcore chaos in a way that presaged the deathcore genre before that term solidified. Their 2002 debut Fused Together in Revolving Doors introduced a fanbase to their erratic, high-density approach, and Clients (2005) sold over 50,000 copies in the United States. Prey for Eyes (2007) and Fed Through the Teeth Machine (2009) both charted on the Billboard 200. After a period of inactivity beginning around 2015, the band returned to live performance in 2022.
Stoner metal band founded in Porto Alegre, Brazil in 2013 by guitarist and vocalist Christiano Vieira. After Vieira relocated to Portugal in 2022 and rebuilt the band there, The Red Crow released their debut album Spellbound in January 2025 on Sodeh Records, a ten-track record drawing on Black Sabbath and Red Fang.
Middleburg, Florida's The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus broke through with 'Face Down,' an anti-domestic-violence anthem that became one of the biggest rock singles of 2006 and propelled their debut 'Don't You Fake It' to gold certification. Ronnie Winter's impassioned vocal delivery and the band's knack for balancing pop-punk accessibility with post-hardcore bite made them staples of the Warped Tour circuit.
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