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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
Featured Stoner Metal Album
Wild Child (2023)
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Soundtrack to Your Escape (The Quiet Place Version) (2022)
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Norwegian industrial/electronic metal band from Oslo, evolving from thrash metal origins into industrial and electronic territory since 2014. Their stylistic transformation reflects an increasingly mechanized, experimental approach.
Donetsk melodic death metal act formed in 2011, creating music from one of Ukraine's most conflict-affected regions. Their melodic approach channels the emotional weight of their surroundings through Scandinavian-influenced death metal.
Red Hot is a melodic heavy metal band from Brühl near Cologne in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, formed in 2020. The band channels hook-driven melodic metal from the Rhineland.
Red Industry is a heavy/thrash metal band from Oulu in northern Finland, formed in 2022. The band channels industrial-tinged heavy-thrash from Finland's northern reaches.
Red Juggernaut is a heavy metal band from Chiclana de la Frontera in Cádiz province, Andalusia, Spain, formed in 2023. The band delivers crushing heavy metal from the sun-drenched coastline of southern Spain.
Heavy/groove metal band from Avellino in southern Italy, formed in 2021. Their approach combines classic heavy metal with groove metal's rhythmic drive from the Campanian interior.
Red Light District is a heavy metal band from Sweden, active since 2006. The band plays straightforward heavy metal with hard rock influences, representing the long-running Swedish tradition of no-frills hard-hitting metal.
Red Lion is a doom metal band from Bjæverskov on the island of Zealand in Denmark, formed in 2013. The band delivers heavy, slow-paced doom metal from the rural Danish countryside south of Copenhagen.
Red Means No Mercy is a brutal deathcore band from Kassel in northern Hesse, Germany, formed in 2018. The band delivers punishing breakdowns and extreme vocal performances as part of Kassel's active extreme metal scene.
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