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Inside It Grows is a melodic/progressive black metal project from Athens, Greece, active since 2010 and forging dark, aggressive extremity within the Greece black metal scene. The project channels the unrelenting intensity of the genre.
Inside of Pain is a death/black metal act from Lidzbark, Poland, active since 2025 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.
Symphonic black metal band from Spain's Cantabria region, formed in 2021. Their sound layers symphonic orchestration over black metal from the northern Spanish coastal province.
Insidiator Morbi is a black metal project from Athens, Greece, active since 2024 and forging dark, aggressive extremity within the Greece black metal scene. The project channels the unrelenting intensity of the genre.
Insidious Process is a black/sludge metal/crust punk act from Gothenburg, Sweden, active since 2009 and fusing black metal aggression with punk-influenced rawness and energy. The project bridges extreme metal and underground punk traditions.
Insidious Void are a three-piece blackened death metal band from Belfast, Northern Ireland, formed in 2022. Their discography spans from their debut album Entropy through the 2024 Hellscape EP, delivering ferocious blackened death metal.
Depressive black metal band from Fontenay-le-Comte in the Vendée, active since 2018. Their bleak name channels depressive black metal from the rural western French countryside.
Insignium is a black/death metal band from Hagen, Germany, formed in 2018, merging the atmospheric hostility of black metal with death metal's crushing weight. The band channels the industrial energy of the South Westphalian city into dual-genre extremity.
Insomnio is a solo project founded in 2016 in Concepción, Chile by Francisco Acuña Inzunza, also known as the bassist of thrash/speed metal band Crushing Brain. The project blends neofolk, doom, and black metal with themes of melancholy, desolation, nature, and mortality, and has released a prolific run of albums since 2020 including Anónimo (2020), Canto a la desolación (2021), Umbrío (2022), and Danza silenciosa de su muerte (2023).
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