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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).
Insonus is a black metal project from Pescara, Italy, active since 2016 and forging dark, aggressive extremity within the Italy black metal scene. The project channels the unrelenting intensity of the genre.
Insorcist is a death/black metal band from Santiago, Chile, originally formed in 2002 under the name Azael before adopting the current name and recording the three-track demo Donfallen Kingdom in 2003. The band released the EP Eternal Torment in 2006 and their debut full-length The Slaughter of Divine Creed in 2011 through Apocalyptic Productions, a nine-track concept album recorded at Sade Studios with lyrics exploring anti-Christian and occult themes.
Insulter is a thrash/black/death metal band from Friedrichsdorf, Germany, active since 2012, wielding a triple-headed attack that draws from thrash, black, and death metal simultaneously. The band delivers a savage, genre-blending assault from the Taunus foothills north of Frankfurt.
Black/thrash metal band from Sabadell near Barcelona, active since 2008 — over 15 years of blackened thrash from the Catalan industrial city.
Insurrect are a black/death metal and crust band from the United Kingdom, formed in 2023. Their releases including Nomadic War Machine blend extreme metal with politically charged crust punk under a Red Black Resistance banner.
Insómnia Pálida is a raw black metal project from Bragança, Portugal, active since 2026 and dealing in lo-fi, primitive black metal hostility stripped to its most essential and aggressive core. The project embraces the rawest traditions of the genre.
Intaos is a black/thrash metal act from Chelyabinsk, Russia, active since 2023 and fusing black metal's corrosive darkness with the speed and aggression of thrash. The project delivers volatile crossover fury.
Integritlie are a black/thrash metal band from the Mondsee-Unterach area of Upper Austria who sing and write in the local Austro-Bavarian dialect, lending their aggressive thrash framework an unusual linguistic identity. Their 2017 self-titled album features tracks like "Todgeweiht" and "Flammeninferno," marrying raw black metal energy to driving thrash riffs.
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