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Innovation Threat are a death metal band from Liverpool, formed in 2016. Their album Gehinnom delivers aggressive death/thrash metal with tracks exploring existential and anti-religious themes.
Innsmouth is a technical death metal band from Aarhus, Denmark, formed in 2022, named after the fictional town from H.P. Lovecraft's cosmic horror mythos. The band channels Lovecraftian dread through technically demanding death metal compositions.
Inoculation is a death metal band from Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, formed in 1992 and reactivated in 1999 after a brief hiatus. The band built their reputation through a series of demo and promo tapes in the early 2000s, and their catalogue was later collected on the compilation Hidden Paths of Death, released in 2018 via Dark Recollections Productions. A live recording from a 2001 performance in Salvador, titled To Die Just to Be Live (Desecrating Your Soul with Fire), documents the band's intense early-era show.
Brutal death metal band from Málaga on Spain's Costa del Sol, formed in 2021. Their sound delivers punishing brutality from the Andalusian Mediterranean coast.
Inprobus is a melodic death/groove metal band from Štúrovo, Slovakia, active since 2020 and blending melodic harmonies with death metal aggression. The project channels the twin-guitar traditions of Scandinavian-influenced melodeath.
Death/black metal band from Paris, France formed in 2021. Their Latin name — meaning 'polluted' — channels extreme metal from the French capital.
Inquiring Blood is a death metal band from Hanover, Germany, active since 2016, forging punishing death metal from Lower Saxony's capital. The band delivers guttural extremity with a relentless, uncompromising approach.
Inquisitia is a thrash/death metal/metalcore band from Novi Sad, Serbia, active since 2013 and merging death metal's heaviness with thrash's relentless velocity. The project delivers aggressive crossover fury.
Inquisition are a death/doom metal band from Wöllersdorf-Steinabrückl, Lower Austria, playing slow, crushing metal with the grim patience that defines the doom/death tradition. The band remains an independent underground act, operating through Bandcamp without the backing of a label.
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