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Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
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Obnoxious Demos (2014)
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Mentally Murdered (2019)
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Ramesses is a sludge/doom/death metal band from Wimborne Minster in Dorset, England, active since 2018. The band channels crushing, multi-layered extreme doom from the rural English south coast.
Ramificator is a death metal band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2025. The project represents the newest wave of Finnish death metal emerging from the capital.
Rammwurst is a black/death metal band from Hamburg, Germany, formed in 2017. The band channels aggressive extreme metal from northern Germany's port city underground.
Ramshack is a melodic death/groove metal band from the Salo/Turku area in southwestern Finland, formed in 2022. The band blends melodic death metal hooks with groove metal weight.
Ran is an industrial groove/death metal band from London, England, formed in 2015. The band fuses mechanical industrial rhythms with groove and death metal from the UK capital.
Rancid Cadaver is a death metal band from Glasgow, Scotland, formed in 2022. The band delivers aggressive death metal from Scotland's largest city.
Rancid Pus is a goregrind/death metal project from Glamsbjerg on the island of Funen in Denmark, formed in 2020. The project delivers visceral extreme music from the Danish countryside.
Rancid Taint Discharge is a brutal death metal band from Turku, Finland, formed in 2020. The band delivers punishing, uncompromising brutality from Finland's former medieval capital.
Rancor was a hardcore/death/thrash metal band from Limburg, Belgium, formed in 1995. They released the demo 'Death Collector' and the EP 'Death Is Everywhere' (2006) on Lifeforce Records before eventually splitting up.
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