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Slaughter & Apparatus - A Methodical Overture (2023)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
With Oden On Our Side (2015)
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Featured Death Metal Album
Coronary Reconstruction (EP) (2024)
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Rebellix is a thrash metal band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2015. The band delivers aggressive thrash from the Finnish capital's abundant metal underground.
Reboot the System is a melodic death/thrash metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden, active since 2020. True to their city's legacy, the band delivers melodic death metal with thrash metal intensity across releases like 'The Fall.'
Thrash/death metal band from Moscow, Russia, active since 2018. Their approach merges thrash velocity with death metal's heaviness from the Russian capital.
Recast is a thrash/progressive metal and crossover band from Munich, Germany, formed in 2024. The band merges progressive complexity with thrash aggression and crossover energy from Bavaria's capital.
Reckless is a thrash metal band from Frankfurt, Germany, formed in 2021. The band delivers fast, aggressive thrash from one of Germany's major financial and cultural centers.
Reckless Surma is a death/thrash metal band from the Schleswig-Flensburg district in northern Germany, formed in 2016. The band channels extreme metal aggression from the Danish border region, one of Germany's northernmost metal outposts.
Reckless Tide is a thrash metal band from Hanover, the capital of Lower Saxony in Germany, active since 2007. The band has maintained a strong presence in the north German thrash scene for nearly two decades.
Reckoning is a thrash metal band from Darmstadt in Hesse, Germany, active since 1995 — one of the longer-running thrash acts in the Rhine-Main area. The band has maintained three decades of commitment to aggressive thrash from southern Hesse.
Reclaimed is a thrash metal/crossover/hardcore band from Paris, France, formed in 2020. The band fuses thrash aggression with hardcore and crossover punk energy from the French capital.
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