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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)
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Rattle of Bones is a death/groove metal band from Salamanca in Castile and León, Spain, formed in 2017. The band delivers heavy groove and death metal from the historic university city.
Raudra is a melodic black/death metal band from Le Dramont on the Var coast of southeastern France, formed in 2020. Named from a Sanskrit term for ferocity, the band delivers melodic extreme metal from the French Riviera.
Ravage Inc. is a thrash/death metal band from Oldenburg in Lower Saxony, Germany, active since 2004. The band channels aggressive thrash and death metal from the university city in Germany's northwest.
Ravage Machinery is a death/thrash metal band from Rovaniemi, the capital of Finnish Lapland, active since 2011 and evolving from earlier melodic death metal roots. The band delivers extreme metal from the Arctic Circle, one of the world's northernmost metal outposts.
Ravaged is a death metal band from Visby on the island of Gotland, Sweden, active since 2014. Their releases include 'Ruptures In Your Illusion,' bringing extreme metal fury from one of Sweden's most unlikely metal outposts.
Death metal act from the Pordenone area formed in 2012, delivering old-school brutality from Italy's northeastern Friuli region. Their sustained output speaks to a dedication to the death metal craft.
Melodic death metal/metalcore band from Cassano d'Adda near Milan, formed in 2020. Their approach bridges melodic death metal with modern metalcore from the Lombardy countryside.
Ravenage is a folk/melodic death metal band from Kingston upon Hull in East Yorkshire, England, formed in 2015. The band weaves folk elements into melodic death metal from the Humber estuary.
Bratislava act that evolved from black/death metal origins into a technical death metal direction, active since 1999 and representing one of Slovakia's longest-running extreme metal presences. Their quarter-century of evolution speaks to restless creative ambition.
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