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People Watching (2024)
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L'Enfant Sauvage (Special Edition) (2012)
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The Necrotic Manifesto (Bonus Tracks Edition) (2023)
11/14 @ The Majestic Ventura Theater, Ventura
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Among the Shadows (2024)
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Independence, Missouri deathcore act with roots going back to 2007, combining the technical brutality of death metal with the breakdown-driven structure and vocal aggression that defines the deathcore template. They are among the longer-running acts in a subgenre prone to short lifespans.
The Roots of Tanuki from Salamanca blend groove metal, sludge, and hardcore with the mischievous spirit of the Japanese raccoon dog folklore figure since 2017. Their East-meets-West naming convention mirrors a sound that draws from multiple continents' heavy music traditions.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania metalcore band formed in 2020, delivering the aggressive riffing, dynamic song structures, and throat-shredding vocals that characterize the modern metalcore scene. Their Pittsburgh roots situate them within a region with a strong tradition of hard-hitting heavy music.
The Rotted from London deliver death metal and grindcore with the decomposing intensity their putrefaction-themed name demands since 2013. Over a decade of compositions from the British capital has produced reliably rotten extremity.
The Rottens is a thrash metal band from Prato, Italy, formed in 2021. They deliver fast, aggressive thrash metal with raw energy from the Tuscan industrial city.
Utah death metal project formed in 2021, excavating the bleaker end of the genre with an emphasis on crushing low-end and the kind of punishing tempo shifts that make death metal physically compelling. A newer act building a catalog in a state with a small but serious underground metal scene.
The Rudes is a thrash metal band from Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Germany, active since 2009. They play aggressive thrash metal from the medieval Franconian town.
The Ruin is a thrash metal band from Neumünster, Germany, formed in 2018. They deliver fast, aggressive thrash from the Schleswig-Holstein underground.
The Rumjacks are a Celtic punk band formed in Sydney in 2008, known for turning Irish folk melody, working-class punk attack, and pub-singalong force into a touring-heavy international sound. Their early identity centered on fast guitars, accordion, mandolin, tin whistle textures, and choruses built for raised voices, with An Irish Pub Song becoming the track that carried them far beyond Australia. The band draws from the Pogues, Dropkick Murphys, street punk, and traditional song forms, but their catalog is not simply a genre exercise. Records such as Gangs of New Holland, Sober and Godless, Sleepin' Rough, Saints Preserve Us, and Hestia show a group balancing rowdy humor with homesickness, political bite, addiction, family memory, and immigrant myth. Lineup changes altered the vocal center, yet the band's live purpose stayed clear: high-speed folk-punk built to make distance feel smaller. The Rumjacks' strength is the way acoustic folk instrumentation becomes part of the attack instead of a decorative layer. Their songs can sound celebratory and bruised at once, which is essential to the style. They turn old-world melodic memory into modern punk motion, loud enough for festival fields and direct enough for basement rooms.
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