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Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
Featured Progressive Metal Album
I Am the Void (Drumcorps Remix) (2024)
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Featured Death Metal Album
Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Imun is a death metal band from Fosnavåg, Norway, active since 2024 and delivering uncompromising extremity through crushing riffs and guttural vocals. The project channels the relentless brutality of the genre.
Imunity is a thrash/death metal band from Vila Franca de Xira, Portugal, active since 2024 and merging death metal's heaviness with thrash's relentless velocity. The project delivers aggressive crossover fury.
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.
California's In Absence of Angels blend progressive ambition with the crushing weight of death-doom, crafting sprawling, desolate compositions that feel like grief mapped onto music since their 2021 formation.
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.
San Diego's In Apparition Form have been pushing technical death metal's boundaries since 2016, slicing through complex polyrhythmic structures with surgical precision and the relentless drive Southern California breeds.
Lyon-based metal band active since 2013, evolving from early heavy metal through melodic death/thrash into metalcore. Their stylistic journey reflects the broader diversification of the French metal scene.
In Articulo Mortis is a death metal band from Horovice, Czech Republic, active since 1996, making them one of the country's veteran death metal outfits. Their name — Latin for "at the moment of death" — captures nearly three decades of commitment to brutal Czech death metal.
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.
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