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Death metal/metalcore band from Valenciennes in northern France, active since 2008. Their sound fuses death metal with metalcore from the Nord department.
Melodic doom/death metal band from Paris, France active since 2012. Their name captures the suffering at the heart of their melancholic doom/death from the French capital.
Melodic death/groove metal band from Kuopio in eastern Finland, formed in 2021. Their sound blends melodic death metal with groove metal's rhythmic weight from the Savo region.
Incalm is a band from Blatnice pod Svatym Antominkem, Czech Republic, formed in 2018, initially blending gothic and death metal before evolving toward groove metal and metalcore. The band's stylistic journey traces a path from dark romanticism to modern rhythmic heaviness.
Founded in 1989 by guitarist John McEntee, Incantation are one of the foundational acts of American death metal, shaping the genre's cavernous, doom-infused extreme with their 1992 debut Onward to Golgotha. McEntee is the sole continuous member across twelve studio albums, including Mortal Throne of Nazarene and the 2023 Relapse Records release Unholy Deification, and the band remains a definitive influence on underground death metal worldwide.
Incapacity is a thrash/death metal band from Skövde, Sweden, active since 2020 and merging death metal's heaviness with thrash's relentless velocity. The project delivers aggressive crossover fury.
Incarcerated are a death/thrash metal band from London, combining the speed and violence of thrash with the heavy tone and growling vocals of death metal. Their sound features rough riffs, intense drums, and strong choruses across releases like Necrosphere.
Incarceration is an old-school death metal band founded in Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil by guitarist and vocalist Daniel Silva, later completing its lineup in Hamburg, Germany with bassist Björn Freese and drummer Michael Koch. The band debuted with the "Sacrifice" 7" EP in 2013 on Dawnbreed Records—limited to 500 hand-numbered copies—and followed it with the full-length "Catharsis" (F.D.A. Rekotz, October 2016), a ten-track record drawing on influences from Sepultura, Slayer, and Repulsion. Incarceration has toured over twelve countries and appeared at festivals including Party San, Obscene Extreme, and Killtown Death Fest.
Incarna are a metalcore, death, and groove metal band from Abingdon and Oxford, England, formed in 2018. They blend heavy breakdowns with death metal intensity and groove-driven riffing.
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