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Featured Album
La Grande Mascarade - EP (2024)
Featured Heavy Metal Album
No More Hollywood Endings (2025)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
The Pursuit of Vikings: Live at Summer Breeze (Main Stage) (2018)
05/09 @ Coca-Cola Roxy, Atlanta
Featured Stoner Metal Album
Gossamer Wings of Illusion (2025)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
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Kremenchuk death metal act formed in 2018, delivering brutal extremity from central Ukraine's industrial city. Their punishing approach channels the weight of classic death metal.
R.A.Z. is a death metal band from Saint-Nazaire on the Atlantic coast of France, active since 2011. The band delivers death metal from the Loire-Atlantique shipbuilding city in western France.
R.E.X. is a melodic death metal band from Hamina in southeastern Finland, formed in 2018. The band delivers melodic death metal from the Finnish coastal town near the Russian border.
R.I.P. is a death metal band from Cologne, Germany, formed in 2016 and delivering uncompromising death metal from one of the Rhineland's largest cities. The band's Bandcamp presence under the name 'Brave in the Grave' hints at the irreverent spirit behind their approach.
R.I.P. Sanity is a thrash/death metal band from London, England, formed in 2014. The band delivers aggressive death-thrash from one of the world's great music capitals.
R.O.L.F. is a doom/sludge metal and death 'n' roll band from Algeciras in southern Spain, active since 2009. The band channels heavy, low-end-driven doom and sludge with rock 'n' roll swagger from the Strait of Gibraltar.
Rabenmond is a melodic death and pagan metal band from Sonneberg in Thuringia, Germany, active since 1997 — one of the early German pagan metal acts. The band channels Germanic folk traditions through melodic death metal from the forested Thuringian borderlands.
Bologna death metal act formed in 2014, delivering old-school brutality from the heart of Emilia-Romagna. Their punishing sound channels the tradition of classic death metal from one of Italy's most culturally rich cities.
Abruzzo act from Atessa that evolved from grind 'n' roll origins into a death 'n' roll, sludge, and stoner metal hybrid since 2011. Their stylistic evolution reflects a band constantly discovering new ways to channel aggression through groove-laden heaviness.
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