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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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Death metal/grindcore band from Żmigród in Lower Silesia, active since 2018. Their rodent-themed name accompanies extreme metal from the small Polish town.
Atmospheric doom/death/post-metal band from Oslo, Norway, formed in 2019. Their ambitious three-genre approach delivers immersive, atmospheric extreme metal from the Norwegian capital.
Ratlord is a death metal band from Düsseldorf, Germany, formed in 2013 and operating in the Rhine-Ruhr extreme metal underground. The band delivers aggressive death metal from one of Germany's most populous metropolitan areas.
Rato Raro is a grindcore/death metal/punk band from Palencia in Castile and León, Spain, active since 2003. Named 'Strange Rat' in Spanish, the band has maintained over two decades of extreme crossover from the northern Castilian plateau.
Ratpile is a slam/brutal death metal band from Lancashire in northwest England, formed in 2019. The band delivers punishing slam and brutal death metal from the industrial north.
Death metal/hardcore band from Moscow, Russia, formed in 2023. Their approach blends death metal heaviness with hardcore energy from the Russian capital.
Rats of Gomorrah is a death metal band from Kiel, the capital of Schleswig-Holstein in northern Germany, formed in 2010. The band's biblical name belies straightforward death metal aggression from Germany's northernmost major city.
Milan and Lecco death metal/grindcore outfit formed in 2016, delivering grinding extremity from Lombardy's urban-industrial landscape. Their rapid-fire assault combines death metal's brutality with grindcore's unrelenting pace.
Kharkiv death metal act formed in 2015, delivering brutal extremity from Ukraine's second-largest city. Their German-named project channels old-school death metal traditions from eastern Ukraine.
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