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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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Rifle is a speed/thrash metal band from Stockholm, Sweden, formed in 2022. The band delivers high-velocity metal that fuses speed and thrash traditions from the Swedish capital's thriving underground scene.
Riptyde is a speed metal band from Frankfurt, Germany, formed in 2020. The band delivers high-velocity traditional speed metal from one of Germany's major financial and cultural centers.
NWOBHM, heavy metal, and speed metal band from Liverpool, active since 2012. Named after the French revolutionary, their approach channels the classic British heavy metal tradition with speed metal velocity from Merseyside.
Rocka Rollas is a speed metal band from Sandviken, Sweden, active since 2011. Their discography, including 'Metal Strikes Back,' 'The War Of Steel Has Begun,' and 'Celtic Kings,' blends traditional speed metal with folk and historical storytelling themes.
Rotör is a Finnish heavy/speed metal band active since 2001. Over two decades of high-velocity metal make them veterans of the Finnish speed metal underground.
Speed metal/punk band from Portugal, active since 2015. Their deliberately misspelled, road-scum-themed name accompanies high-velocity crossover from the Portuguese underground.
Speed/thrash/folk metal band from Zagreb, Croatia, formed in 2025. Their pirate-themed approach blends high-velocity thrash with nautical folk metal revelry.
Rusty Nutsy is a thrash/speed metal band from Chalon-sur-Saône in Burgundy, France, formed in 2023. The band channels classic speed-thrash from the Burgundian wine country.
Heavy/speed metal band from Katowice, Poland, active since 2014. Their rat-king name accompanies high-velocity heavy metal from the Silesian capital.
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