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Infinite Terror (2024)
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With Fang and Claw (2025)
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Featured Metalcore Album
Drowned in my Loneliness (2008)
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Runkel is a black metal project from Wiesbaden, the Hessian state capital in Germany, formed in 2019. The project delivers atmospheric black metal from the spa city on the Rhine.
Avant-garde black metal band from Rzeszów, Poland, active since 2011. Their approach pushes black metal into experimental, boundary-crossing territory from southeastern Poland.
Ruohtas is a pagan black metal project from Finland, formed in 2018. The project channels Finnish pagan themes through black metal.
Gällivare black metal and ambient project formed in 2013, channeling extreme darkness and atmospheric textures from above the Arctic Circle in Swedish Lapland. Their remote northern origins lend an authentically isolated, frozen quality to their sound.
Raw black metal and ambient project from the tiny Piedmont village of Benevello, active since 2005 and channeling isolation through lo-fi extremity. Their rural origins in the Langhe wine country lend an authentically desolate quality to their sound.
Rurbania is a raw black metal and dungeon synth project from the Grand Est region of northeastern France, formed in 2024. The project merges raw black metal with medieval dungeon synth atmospherics.
Rusalka is a melodic black/death metal band from Ibiza in Spain's Balearic Islands, active since 2008. Named after the Slavic water nymph, the band delivers atmospheric extreme metal from the famous Mediterranean island.
Rusting Sun is an avant-garde/black metal project from Germany, formed in 2023. The project pushes the boundaries of black metal with experimental and avant-garde compositions.
Rusty Forest is a raw black metal project from Nizhnevartovsk, Russia, formed in 2019. The project channels frigid, lo-fi black metal with ambient undercurrents from deep within the West Siberian oil country.
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