Raster Density is a progressive/brutal death metal band from Jyväskylä in central Finland, active since 2012. The band merges progressive complexity with brutal death metal extremity from the Finnish lake district.

Thrash/speed metal band from Dobryanka, a small city in Russia's Perm region, formed in 2023. Their approach delivers high-velocity thrash from the Ural foothills.

Vienna-based four-piece formed in 2022, Rat King Gone channels the rough underground energy of late-1980s to mid-1990s crossover thrash and sludge. Their 2025 album Sprezzatura offers a grim, caustic vision of societal collapse across 13 tracks, following their 2023 debut Homo Homini Lupus.

Rat Salad is a thrash metal band from Hamburg, Germany, active since 1996 — making them one of the longer-running thrash acts in northern Germany. Named after the Black Sabbath instrumental, the band has maintained their commitment to thrash metal for nearly three decades.

Ratatosk is a German black metal project formed in 2010 and named after the squirrel of Norse mythology that runs along the world tree Yggdrasil. The project channels Norse mythological themes through atmospheric black metal.

Ratbreath is a German death metal and crust project formed in 2021, merging the guttural heaviness of death metal with the raw punk energy of crust. The project operates anonymously in the German underground extreme music scene.

Ratbreed is a heavy metal band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2018. The band delivers traditional heavy metal from the capital of the world's most metal-obsessed nation per capita.

Rated X is a Swiss heavy metal band formed in 2019, having evolved from earlier hard rock roots into a more traditional heavy metal sound. The band operates independently within the Swiss metal scene, building their catalog through self-released material.

Ratfeast is a Berlin-based crust band formed in 2018 and consisting of three self-described 'metalheads trying to play crust.' Their releases include a demo tape and a split with Minenfeld titled Minenratten, channeling the D.I.Y. ethos of Berlin's punk and metal crossover scene.