Heavy metal band from Villasor near Cagliari, Sardinia, formed in 2023. Their approach delivers traditional heavy metal from the Sardinian countryside.

Rod1313 is a progressive metal project from Uppsala, Sweden, formed in 2019. The project explores complex musical structures and intricate compositions from the university city of Uppsala.

Roddone is an experimental sludge band from Minsk, Belarus, blending industrial metal, dark ambient, post-metal, and hardcore elements since 2013. Their 2020 album Magnitude is a self-recorded and self-produced affair featuring members Anton Berezovskiy on guitar, Nick Baryskevich on bass and lyrics, and Anton Yeroma on ambient effects.

Rodent Epoch is a black metal band from Oulu in northern Finland, formed in 2018. The band delivers cold, misanthropic black metal from the Finnish north.

Rodha is a stoner/sludge metal band with hardcore influences from Hamburg, Germany, active since 2012. Their releases Welter Through The Ashes and RAW deliver heavy, corroded riffs from the Hamburg underground.

RodtGod is a sludge/doom metal band from Stuttgart, the capital of Baden-Württemberg in Germany, formed in 2020. The band delivers crushing low-end heaviness from the Swabian industrial metropolis.

ROG is a one-person black metal project based in Sofia, Bulgaria, listed on Encyclopaedia Metallum as an active solo act within the Bulgarian underground black metal scene. The project maintains a minimal public presence in keeping with the lo-fi, isolationist aesthetic common to one-man black metal.

Rogash is a death metal band from Jena in Thuringia, Germany, formed in 2014. Named after the Tolkien villain, the band channels punishing death metal from the Saale valley university city.

Death/black metal band from Kraków, Poland, active since 2018. Their Polish name, meaning 'horned,' accompanies extreme metal from Poland's cultural capital.