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Death/black/thrash metal band from Birmingham in the West Midlands, formed in 2019. Their triple-genre fusion channels extreme metal from the birthplace of heavy metal.
Melodic death metal/metalcore band from Paris, France active since 2018. Their atmospheric name channels melodic aggression from the French capital.
In the Gale is a melodic/progressive death metal band from Lesser Poland, Poland, active since 2018 and delivering uncompromising extremity through crushing riffs and guttural vocals. The project channels the relentless brutality of the genre.
In the Name Of is a deathcore band from Malta, active since 2014 and delivering uncompromising extremity through crushing riffs and guttural vocals. The project channels the relentless brutality of the genre.
In the Name of God is a thrash metal band from Wałbrzych, Poland, active since 2014 and merging death metal's heaviness with thrash's relentless velocity. The project delivers aggressive crossover fury.
In the Shadows is a doom/death metal band from Anápolis, Goiás, Brazil. The band contributed the track "De Profundis (the Chorus of the Damned)" to the Doomed Serenades Vol. 1 Brazilian doom metal compilation (2012) and later appeared on The Sound of Satanic Hellbangers Vol. III (2023), demonstrating a long-running presence in the Brazilian doom underground. Their music engages with themes of darkness, despair, and death common to the doom/death tradition.
In This Defiance are a death metal and hardcore band from the United Kingdom, formed in 2010. They fuse death metal aggression with hardcore intensity.
In Thousand Lakes is a melodic death metal band from Bilbao, Spain, active since 2014, named after the iconic Amorphis album and channeling Finnish-influenced melodeath from the Basque industrial capital. The band merges melancholic Nordic melodies with the rugged character of the Basque Country.
In Torment I Die is a blackened death metal act from Lorenzago di Cadore (Belluno), Italy, active since 2009 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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