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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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Death/groove metal band from Bergamo, Italy, active since 2014. Their tyrant-themed name accompanies heavy, rhythmically driven extreme metal from the Lombardy foothills.
Rise to Fall is a melodic groove metal band from Bilbao in the Basque Country, Spain, active since 2010. Over a decade of activity has established the band in the Basque metal scene, blending melody with groove metal heaviness.
Groove/thrash metal and hardcore band from the spa town of Busko-Zdrój, Poland, formed in 2026. Their approach blends groove metal with thrash velocity and hardcore energy.
Rising Down is a thrash/groove metal band from Hamburg, Germany, formed in 2014. The band fuses thrash speed with groove metal's rhythmic heaviness from Germany's premier port city.
Rites of Spring is a groove/death metal/hardcore band with gothic influences from Montreuil near Paris, France, active since 1985. Over four decades of activity make them one of the longest-running metal-adjacent acts in the Parisian underground.
River Crow is a groove/southern metal band from Ciudad Real in Castile-La Mancha, Spain, formed in 2017. The band channels heavy grooves with southern metal swagger from the dry plains of central Spain.
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Roadkill XIII is a death/thrash metal band from Regensburg in Bavaria, Germany, active since 2004, having evolved from earlier groove/thrash roots into a heavier death-thrash direction. Over two decades of activity make them veterans of the Bavarian extreme metal scene.
Room is a thrash/groove metal band from Madrid, Spain, active since 1990. Over three decades of thrash make them one of the longest-running metal acts in the Spanish capital.
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