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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
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Wild Child (2023)
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Soundtrack to Your Escape (The Quiet Place Version) (2022)
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Ritual Killing is a death/thrash metal band from Coburg in Upper Franconia, Bavaria, formed in 2023. The band delivers extreme metal from the historic fortress city on the Thuringian border.
Stoner metal/rock band from Manchester, England, active since 2016. Their approach delivers ritualistic, fuzz-drenched stoner grooves from the northern English city.
Ritual Mist is a doom metal band from Turku in southwestern Finland, active since 2012. The band delivers slow, atmospheric doom metal from Finland's oldest city.
Melodic death metal band from Patras, Greece, active since 2016. Their approach channels Scandinavian-influenced melodic death metal from the Peloponnese.
Ritual of Terror is a melodic death metal band from Vesanto in central Finland, formed in 2018. The band delivers melodic death metal from the rural Finnish heartland.
Death 'n' roll band from Brașov, Romania, formed in 2024. Their approach blends death metal's heaviness with rock 'n' roll swagger from the Transylvanian city.
Odesa psychedelic doom/stoner metal act formed in 2018, merging trippy sonic explorations with crushing heaviness from Ukraine's Black Sea coast. Their genre-spanning approach channels both psychedelia's vision and doom's oppressive weight.
Black/death metal project from the UK, formed in 2025. Their extreme name accompanies aggressive black/death metal.
Raw black metal project from the Donetsk Oblast, formed in 2021 and channeling primal aggression from one of Ukraine's most conflict-affected regions. Their lo-fi approach embraces the harshness central to raw black metal.
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