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Funeral doom/death metal/ambient project from Moscow, active since 2014. Their evocative, nature-poetic name frames glacially paced compositions exploring death and seasonal desolation.
Rain Is Art is a melodic groove metal and metalcore band from Viveiro in Galicia, northwestern Spain, active since 2011. The band blends melodic hooks with groove metal weight from the Atlantic coast of Spain.
Rain of Acid is a melodic death metal band from Vaasa on the west coast of Finland, formed in 2024. The band delivers melodic death metal from the Ostrobothnian coastal city.
Rain of Fire is a heavy metal band from Minsk, Belarus, catalogued on Encyclopaedia Metallum within the Belarusian metal scene. The band operates in the underground heavy metal tradition of Eastern Europe, with limited wider documentation outside specialist metal databases.
Rain Paint is a gothic metal band from Helsinki, Finland, active since 2003. Over two decades of gothic metal from the Finnish capital establish the band as a fixture of the scene.
Rainbird is a gothic/doom metal band formed in 2004 in Orsha, Belarus, as a side project of musicians from Screaming from the Oblivion, featuring St. Anatolick on vocals, Russel on guitars, Cheesa on bass, and Vadim on drums. Their debut album 'Poets' Blood' was released in 2006 through Backfire Productions.
Rainbow were a British hard rock and heavy metal band formed in Hertford in 1975 by guitarist Ritchie Blackmore following his first departure from Deep Purple, initially built around Ronnie James Dio and members of the American band Elf. The Dio-era lineup produced landmark albums including the self-titled debut (1975) and Rising (1976), establishing a template of mythological hard rock that was enormously influential; after Dio's departure, the band shifted toward a more commercially oriented sound before disbanding in 1984 and reuniting intermittently thereafter.
Gothic/doom metal band from Wrocław, Poland, formed in 2021. Their approach blends gothic atmosphere with doom metal's crushing weight from the Lower Silesian capital.
RainKnight is a symphonic metal band from Madrid, Spain, formed in 2017. The band delivers orchestral, cinematic metal with dramatic arrangements from the Spanish capital.
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