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Puddle of Mudd
Puddle of Mudd, American post-grunge/alternative metal band from Kansas City formed in 1992 around Wes Scantlin; breakthrough 2001 triple-platinum album Come Clean with singles "Blurry" and "She Hates Me."
Queensrÿche
Queensrÿche is an American heavy metal band formed in Bellevue, Washington in the early 1980s, known for the 1988 concept album Operation: Mindcrime and for selling more than 30 million albums worldwide.
Quiet Riot
Quiet Riot is an American heavy metal band from Los Angeles, formed in 1975 by Kevin DuBrow and Randy Rhoads and best known for its 1983 album Metal Health.
Rage Against the Machine
Rage Against the Machine, RATM, American rap-metal band formed in Los Angeles in 1991 by Zack de la Rocha, Tom Morello, Tim Commerford, and Brad Wilk; three politically charged studio albums plus Renegades (2000), 2023 Rock Hall induction, final live retirement announced 2024.
Rammstein
Rammstein is a German industrial metal band that formed in Berlin in 1994. The group is known for its Neue Deutsche Härte style and over 20 million records sold worldwide.
Ratos de Porão
Ratos de Porão is a Brazilian crossover thrash band formed in 1981 in São Paulo, credited with inaugurating the crossover style in Brazil and still active after four decades.
Ratt
Ratt (RATT), formed from Stephen Pearcy's San Diego band Mickey Ratt and reestablished in Los Angeles, is an American glam metal band whose 1984 album Out of the Cellar and hit "Round and Round" defined the Sunset Strip sound; seven studio albums through Infestation (2010).
Red Fang
Red Fang is an American stoner rock and metal band from Portland, Oregon, formed in 2005, known for albums like Murder the Mountains (2011) and Arrows (2021) and videos such as "Prehistoric Dog" and "Wires".
Regarde Les Hommes Tomber
Regarde Les Hommes Tomber is a French sludge and post-black metal band from Nantes, formed in 2011, whose three albums grow steadily more extreme, culminating in Ascension (2020).
Reinventing the Steel
Reinventing the Steel, Pantera's ninth and final studio album (Elektra, March 21, 2000), produced by Vinnie Paul and Dimebag Darrell; debuted at No. 4 on the Billboard 200, went gold, and earned a 2001 Grammy nomination for "Revolution Is My Name."
Relapse Records
Relapse Records is an American independent record label specializing in extreme metal, founded by Matthew F. Jacobson in 1990 and based in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia.
Reload (Metallica album)
Reload (ReLoad), Metallica's seventh studio album, released November 18, 1997; leftover songs from the Load sessions, produced by Bob Rock, debuted at #1 on Billboard, triple Platinum, remastered 2026.
Repulsion (group)
Repulsion is an American grindcore and death metal band from Flint, Michigan, whose single album Horrified, recorded in 1986 and released in 1989, became a foundational grindcore record.
Resolve
Resolve is a French metalcore quartet from Lyon, formed in 2016 and signed to Arising Empire, known for the albums Between Me and The Machine (2021) and Human (2023).
Resurrection Fest
Resurrection Fest, known as Resurrection Fest Estrella Galicia, is an annual metal, punk, and hardcore festival held in Viveiro, Galicia, Spain, since 2006, called Spain's biggest rock festival.
Revolver (musician)
Revolver is an American hard-rock and heavy-metal magazine launched in New York in 2000, best known for its Golden Gods awards show and covers of Slipknot, Metallica, and Tool.
Rhapsody of Fire
Rhapsody of Fire, formerly Rhapsody and originally Thundercross, is an Italian symphonic power metal band from Trieste founded by Luca Turilli and Alex Staropoli, known for the Emerald Sword Saga and over a million albums sold.
Rings of Saturn (band)
Rings of Saturn (band), the "aliencore" technical deathcore act formed in 2009 in the San Francisco Bay Area by Lucas Mann; albums Embryonic Anomaly, Dingir, Lugal Ki En, Ultu Ulla, Gidim; instrumental since Ian Bearer's 2021 exit.
Riot City
Riot City is a Canadian heavy and speed metal band from Calgary, Alberta, formed in 2011, known for the albums Burn the Night and Electric Elite.
Rock Hard (Germany)
Rock Hard is a German heavy metal and hard rock magazine founded in 1983 as a fanzine by Uwe Lerch and Holger Stratmann, based in Dortmund.
Rockbitch
Rockbitch were a British gothic-industrial metal band (formed mid-1990s from Red Abyss members) whose feminist, pagan French commune informed explicit live shows, one 1999 album Motor Driven Bimbo, European bans, a 2002 split, and the MT-TV successor.
Rotting Christ
Rotting Christ, Greek extreme metal band founded in Athens in 1987 by brothers Sakis and Themis Tolis; Hellenic black metal pioneers whose fourteen albums from Thy Mighty Contract (1993) to Pro Xristou (2024) blend black, gothic, and epic metal with a signature Greek sound.
Russian Circles
Russian Circles: Chicago instrumental post-rock/post-metal trio (Mike Sullivan, Dave Turncrantz, Brian Cook), formed 2004. Nine albums from Enter (2006) to Nine (2026) on Sargent House; known for layered guitar loops and Kurt Ballou-produced heaviness.
Sabaton (band)
Sabaton: Swedish heavy metal/power metal band formed 1999 in Falun, also called a war-history metal band. Eleven studio albums from Primo Victoria (2005) to Legends (2025); Carolus Rex quadruple platinum in Sweden; known for tank drum riser and Sabaton History channel.
Sabbat
Sabbat were an English heavy metal band from Nottingham, formed in 1985 and fronted by Martin Walkyier, whose albums History of a Time to Come and Dreamweaver made them a cult fixture of British extreme metal.
Sacred Reich
Sacred Reich (Phoenix, Arizona thrash metal band, formed 1985): second-wave thrash act with political lyrics led by Phil Rind and Wiley Arnett; albums Ignorance, The American Way, Independent, Heal, and 2019's Awakening on Metal Blade.
Saint Vitus
Saint Vitus is an American doom metal band from Los Angeles, formed in 1979, named after the Black Sabbath song "St. Vitus' Dance" and known for the 1986 album Born Too Late.
Saint Vitus Bar
Saint Vitus Bar is a heavy metal and underground music venue in Brooklyn, New York, opened in Greenpoint in 2011 and reopened in Bushwick in 2026.
Samael (group)
Samael is a Swiss extreme-metal band from Sion, Valais, founded by brothers Vorph and Xy, whose 1991 debut Worship Him made them early black-metal standard-bearers outside Scandinavia.
Samhain (band)
Samhain: American goth-punk band formed 1983 in Lodi, New Jersey by Glenn Danzig after the Misfits; released Initium, Unholy Passion, and November-Coming-Fire before being renamed Danzig in 1987.