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San Pedro's In Abominabiles Facti Sunt Carpi operate at the extremes of blackened death metal with a name pulled from scripture and a sound that suggests total spiritual collapse, active since 2018.
In Aeternum is a black/death metal act from Sandviken, Sweden, active since 2013 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.
In Aphelion is a Swedish black metal trio formed in 2020, led by Necrophobic guitarist Sebastian Ramstedt alongside fellow veterans of Nifelheim and Dismember. The band released the four-track EP Luciferian Age in 2021 before their debut full-length Moribund appeared in March 2022, delivering riff-driven traditional black metal laced with NWOBHM and thrash influences.
Atmospheric black metal/post-rock band from Dumfries in southwestern Scotland, active since 2017. Their autumnal name channels atmospheric metal from the Scottish Borders.
In Battle is a black metal act from Sundsvall, Sweden, active since 2021 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.
Atlanta's In Chasms Deep began as a symphonic deathcore outfit and hardened into something darker and more purely black metal with each passing year, their southern gothic roots informing a sound that's been evolving since 2013.
In Contempt is a death/black metal act from Uppsala, Sweden, 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.
In Corpore Mortis is a black metal project from Turin, Italy, active since 2013 and forging dark, aggressive extremity within the Italy black metal scene. The project channels the unrelenting intensity of the genre.
In Crucem Agere is a Vienna black metal duo — Syknatt and Þ. — whose music explores the darkness inside humanity from the perspective of those beyond salvation, formed in 2010. Their catalog, released on Code666 Records, ranges from traditional raw black metal on early efforts like Graveyard of Liars to the dissonant, avant-garde extremity of Calling the Void (2021).
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