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Black metal band from Madrid, Spain active since 2012. Their Latin name — meaning 'immoderate' — signals an extreme approach to black metal from the Spanish capital.
Intempestus is a black metal band from Gottingen, Germany, formed in 2024, pursuing atmospheric black metal from the university city of Lower Saxony. The band represents the newest wave of the Gottingen extreme metal scene.
Richmond, Virginia's Inter Arma formed in 2006 and have developed into one of the most critically acclaimed American heavy bands of the past two decades, blending sludge, black metal, post-metal, and Southern rock into sprawling, unpredictable albums. Signed to Relapse Records, releases such as Sky Burial (2013), Paradise Gallows (2016), and Sulphur English (2019) drew wide praise from Pitchfork, NPR, and the metal press for their structural ambition and sonic density.
Interdikt is a black metal band from Nymburk, Czech Republic, formed in 2022, pursuing atmospheric black metal from the Elbe-adjacent town east of Prague. The band represents a newer wave of Czech black metal, channeling the genre's cold intensity through a Central European perspective.
Black/death metal band from Murcia in southeastern Spain, active since 2012. Their Latin name — meaning 'slain' — channels extreme metal from the Mediterranean coast.
Black metal band from Six-Fours-les-Plages on the Var coast, active since 2016. Their virological name channels black metal from the French Riviera.
Interior Mors is a atmospheric/depressive black metal project from Italy, active since 2018 and channeling despair and isolation through raw, emotionally charged black metal. The project explores the most sorrowful and bleak reaches of the genre.
Interitus is a black metal project from Minsk, Belarus, formed in 2023, pursuing uncompromising black metal in the tradition of the genre's Eastern European lineage. The band channels the cold severity of Belarusian winters into tremolo-driven darkness.
Interitvm was a black metal project from Viña del Mar, Chile, operating as a personal venture of Omega, lead guitarist of Chilean black metal band Indoctrinate. The band released the Extermination promo in 2014, followed by the self-released EP Reign of Nuclear Apocalypse in 2017 — a seven-track assault of war-themed black metal that was later reissued on CD in 2023 with bonus tracks through Seven Headed Beast and Deathcamp Records.
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