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Drag Me to Hell (2021)
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De Doorn (2022)
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Drowned in my Loneliness (2008)
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Rusty Forest is a raw black metal project from Nizhnevartovsk, Russia, formed in 2019. The project channels frigid, lo-fi black metal with ambient undercurrents from deep within the West Siberian oil country.
Death 'n' roll/stoner metal band from Toruń, Poland, active since 2018. Their approach blends death metal's heaviness with rock 'n' roll swagger and stoner grooves from the medieval copernican city.
Heavy metal/hard rock band from Athens, Greece, active since 2015. Their approach delivers classic heavy metal and hard rock from the Greek capital.
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.
Gothenburg doom metal act formed in 2018, delivering crushing heaviness from Sweden's melodeath capital in a decidedly slower direction. Their ponderous approach channels doom metal's most weighty traditions.
Rutabaga is a melodic death metal/metalcore band from Khabarovsk in Russia's Far East, active since 2012. The group blends melodic death metal sensibilities with metalcore breakdowns, drawing from the aggressive musical traditions of the Russian extreme metal underground.
Ruthanas is a black metal project from Hirschberg in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, active since 2012. The project channels black metal from the Bergstrasse region on the western edge of the Odenwald forest.
Ruthless is a thrash/heavy metal band from Saxony, Germany, formed in 2020. The band delivers aggressive thrash and heavy metal from the eastern German state with deep roots in extreme music.
Ruthless Art is a gothic metal band from Guben on the Polish border in Brandenburg, Germany, active since 2001. Over two decades of gothic metal from one of Germany's easternmost cities make them veterans of the Brandenburg underground.
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