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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Newsflash (2023)
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Ice Scream is a thrash/death metal band from Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg, active since 2014 and merging death metal's heaviness with thrash's relentless velocity. The project delivers aggressive crossover fury.
Ice Wurm is a death metal/grindcore band from Lisbon, Portugal, active since 2025 and delivering uncompromising extremity through crushing riffs and guttural vocals. The project channels the relentless brutality of the genre.
Iced is a death metal band from Netherlands, active since 2017 and delivering uncompromising extremity through crushing riffs and guttural vocals. The project channels the relentless brutality of the genre.
Death metal hammered out of Minot, North Dakota since 2022, where the brutal winters apparently breed a particularly raw and uncompromising brand of extremity with no interest in polish or pretense.
Icembrace is a symphonic/melodic death metal band from Blagoveshchensk, Russia, active since 2018 and blending melodic harmonies with death metal aggression. The project channels the twin-guitar traditions of Scandinavian-influenced melodeath.
Icestorm is a band from Barcelona, Spain, active since 2012, evolving from traditional heavy metal into a melodic death metal/metalcore hybrid. The band's stylistic evolution reflects Barcelona's diverse heavy music landscape.
Frederick, Maryland's progressive death metal practitioners have been weaving complex, technically demanding compositions since 2010 — the kind of music that rewards close attention with layers that reveal themselves slowly.
Phoenix heavy metal outfit that has been honing their craft since 2012, rooted in classic metal songwriting with hard rock instincts — muscular, direct, and proud of the Arizona sun baking it all in.
Icon Blood is a death metal band from Karlskoga, Sweden, active since 2011 and delivering uncompromising extremity through crushing riffs and guttural vocals. The project channels the relentless brutality of the genre.
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