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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Ignis Luciferi is a death/black metal act from Wrocław, Poland, active since 2023 and merging the atmospheric darkness of black metal with death metal's crushing brutality. The project delivers fierce extremity at the crossroads of both genres.
Venomous Black Metal from Dallas.
Black metal band from Normandy, formed in 2020. Their Latin name — meaning 'fire of the earth' — channels black metal from the historic region of northwestern France.
Ignobleth is a blackened death metal act from Modena, Italy, active since 2024 and merging the atmospheric darkness of black metal with death metal's crushing brutality. The project delivers fierce extremity at the crossroads of both genres.
Out of Norwalk, Ohio, Ignominious fuses death metal brutality with groove metal's rolling low-end punch — a young band that hits with calculated heaviness rather than pure chaos.
Ignominous is a black metal project from Thessaloniki, Greece, active since 2024 and forging dark, aggressive extremity within the Greece black metal scene. The project channels the unrelenting intensity of the genre.
Fresh out of Bloomington, Illinois, Ignoramucide arrived in 2026 with a black/death attack rooted in the Midwest's underground tradition — uncompromising and deliberately outside the mainstream.
Ignoramus is a atmospheric black metal act from Yekaterinburg, Russia, active since 2019 and crafting immersive, expansive compositions that push beyond conventional black metal boundaries. The project blends atmospheric textures with the intensity of extreme metal.
Ignotum is a black metal project from Como, Italy, active since 2014 and forging dark, aggressive extremity within the Italy black metal scene. The project channels the unrelenting intensity of the genre.
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