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Infinite Terror (2024)
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With Fang and Claw (2025)
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Drowned in my Loneliness (2008)
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Recrehate is a death/thrash metal band from Recklinghausen in the northern Ruhr area of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, formed in 2016. The band delivers aggressive death-thrash from one of the Ruhr's most densely populated industrial cities.
Rectal Devastation is a slam/brutal death metal and goregrind band from West Yorkshire, England, active since 2011. The band delivers extreme slam and goregrind from the industrial north.
Rectal Implosion is a technical/brutal death metal band from Leeds in West Yorkshire, England, formed in 2014. The band delivers precision brutality from the major city of northern England.
Goregrind and brutal death metal band from Naaldwijk, the Netherlands, with roots dating to 2004. Two decades of deliberately grotesque extreme metal from the South Holland greenhouse district.
Kyiv death metal and grindcore act formed in 2020, delivering rapid-fire extremity with characteristically irreverent naming from Ukraine's capital. Their grinding assault channels the most punishing qualities of both genres.
Rectal Terror is a brutal deathcore act from Minsk, Belarus, emerging in 2025 as part of the city's growing extreme metal underground. The project channels punishing breakdowns and guttural vocals characteristic of the genre's most uncompromising strain.
Recusant is a melodic death metal band from Uppsala, Sweden, formed in 2024. The band brings fresh energy to the Swedish melodic death metal tradition with aggressive yet hook-laden compositions.
Red Abyss is a German black/death metal project formed in 2016, exploring the extremes of both genres. The project channels relentless black and death metal aggression from the German underground.
Red Dawn is a technical death metal band from Rennes in Brittany, France, active since 2013. The band delivers precision-driven technical death metal from the capital of Brittany.
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